Earlier this month we saw how one of the world’s most progressive entertainment organisations, Netflix, were using owned media to attract people to its shows. This week we discovered one of entertainment’s oldest institutions doing exactly the same. The circus is in town and they...
One of the most forward-thinking businesses on the planet made a move this week which could well be the shape of things to come: they are buying a billboard company. This isn’t just any billboard company, this is Regency Outdoor which has large format billboards...
Often when monster news cycles dominate the media (cricket cheats, data cheats, social cheats…) smaller, less titillating stories can get missed. Such may be the case with an interview Marketing Week UK did with the Commercial Director of Formula One, Sean Bratches (read here). It’s...
This week served up a sober reminder of how the majority of the world’s population don’t recognise that they are sharing valuable information through online social platforms and even more worryingly, they aren’t aware that their information is being used to influence their behaviour with...
Keiretsu is a Japanese term that refers to an informal grouping of businesses with interlocking relationships and shareholdings. These partnerships are designed to aid and improve each individual business and there are many powerful ones in Japan. For example, Toshiba, Sony, Fujifilm and Suntory Whiskey...
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by constraints? Distribution is squeezing you, legislation hurt you, budget cuts frustrate you or a lack of resource is crippling? We’ve all experienced the feeling of being constrained by factors largely beyond our control, but it is how we react...
Many retailers talk the talk when it comes to effectively using their data to drive marketing solutions. Few have demonstrated evidence of actually doing so and achieving incremental sales. UK supermarket Sainsbury's stand out for doing exactly that. The granularity of loyalty programme data has long...
Every week, it seems there's someone jumping up and down about agency transparency. The gist of these articles/posts/reports is that agencies should be more transparent. Of course they should, but then the industry has been saying that for years. What's changed? Not much, if anything. Transparency...
In the 2013 movie Ocean’s Eleven, Danny and Rusty assemble a team of specialists to achieve an audacious heist. This is a good analogy for the way Village Entertainment is transforming their business model, by assembling unique and imaginative entertainment solutions for people within their...
Some of the most prestigious, respected award bodies in the global marketing industry are missing something important and it has been bothering me for some time. Let’s start with the good news: they are getting much better at acknowledging efficacy as a factor in deciding...