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Salary Survey 2017: Marketing is still misunderstood by businesses

Marketing is still seen as a cost rather than an investment by businesses, according to more than half of marketers responding to Marketing Week’s annual Career and Salary Survey. Despite efforts across the industry to break down internal silos and encourage inter-departmental collaboration, 61.8% of marketers believe marketing is only somewhat understood or not understood at …

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Salary Survey 2017: The gender pay gap increases

Despite efforts to focus on diversity and supporting women to succeed in the industry, the pay gap between male and female marketers has widened from 20.8% in 2016 to 22.4% in 2017. “I’m disappointed that the gap is that big,” says Annabel Venner, global brand director at insurance provider Hiscox. “There’s a huge number of steps being taken in the …

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Moneysupermarket.com had the most complained about ads in 2016

It would appear twerking builders aren’t a hit with all Brits, with Moneysupermarket.com dominating the ASA’s list of the ten most complained about ads in 2016. With three ads in the top five – which racked up a combined total of 2,500 complaints – the financial brand’s ad featuring ‘Gary the Bodguard’ was deemed the …

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The year ahead in marketing and digital: Part 2 – marketing trends

Every year I pick out digital and marketing trends and developments which I think will shape the industry and its planning and thinking in the year ahead. Here are my marketing-specific trends for 2017. In part 1, I looked at broad macro trends affecting brands, and in part 3, I’ll look at digital. Marketing transformation …

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Brexit is making marketers cautious about hiring new staff

Marketers are becoming more cautious when it comes to hiring new staff, the latest quarterly IPA Bellwether report has claimed. Given the uncertain economic impact of Britain leaving the European single market, the latest data suggests an impact on new hires. The net balance of marketers looking to hire new staff in the fourth quarter …

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Sainsbury’s confirms departure of marketing director Sarah Warby

After five year’s leading Sainsbury’s marketing division, Sarah Warby is set to quit the supermarket at the end of this month. Sainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe thanked Warby, the former marketing director of Heineken UK, for her “great support over the years” and said she had “transformed” its approach to marketing. “In her time here she’s …

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The year ahead in marketing and digital: Part 1 – macro trends

Every year I pick out digital and marketing trends and developments which I think will shape the industry and its planning and thinking in the year ahead. Here are the general industry trends that make the cut in 2017. In part 2, I’ll look at specific marketing trends, and in part 3, digital. The F …

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Mark Ritson: We should thank Byron Sharp, not attack him

There’s nothing like starting the year with some heavyweight marketing fisticuffs. That was obviously what was going on in Marie Oldham’s head at the turn of the year as she penned her wonderfully hostile article for advertising trade magazine Campaign. Oldham, the esteemed chief strategy officer at VCCP, was meant to be promoting Volume 26 …

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