In a dark hallway, I mean with no lights at all, waiting to go on stage at the IAB conference on RTA, I found myself being fitted for a mike in close proximity to Financial Times Commercial Director, Digital Advertising , Jon Slade.  He charmingly turned his back while my mike cord was threaded through…

“You could make a case that the interesting stuff the internet’s going to do to the media industry has mostly already happened.” So says thought guru, columnist, and creative director at GDS Russell Davies.  That’s not to say, as he goes on to say that you can just sit and think: “phew, we survived. Because…

I don’t know how much interest you have paid to the recent royal outrage.  Prince William has been refused a visit, essentially stood up, by New Zealand’s Maori King.  King Tuheitia’s office rejected the offer of a visit from the Royal couple on tour down under on the basis that the time allocated was too…

In my experience of management, the more senior Alpha males become in an agency, the more they are attracted to making decisions based on gut instinct.   It is one of the gender differences that I am prepared to generalise about that is apparent to me at that level.  Men like gut instincts, and snap…