What struck your imagination at CES, the much anticipated trade show for leading edge developments this year?   Our head of digital Sarah Treliving felt that overall whilst there’s lots of products on show that do cool stuff at the show, only a very few of them feel like they’ve been designed for a current…

2017 marks thirty years since the original publication of the book that made Chaos Theory popular. Chaos Theory is a branch of mathematics that explains how huge change can come about unexpectedly from the accumulation of tiny changes.  The most famous example is the butterfly effect. This shows how a tiny change, caused by the…

We are not all motivated by the same things. Some of us are very motivated by the idea that there might still be a corner office in our future, if we haven’t all been replaced by robots.  Some of us like to come to work because we enjoy working in a big team and can’t…

Robots are taking our jobs, or at least they’re about to. Or are they? Certainly programmatic is due to sweep across the industry and some jobs are becoming automated. Margins aren’t getting any fatter in advertising.  Saving time and resource is one reasonable prediction for top bosses’ priorities in 2017.  In the age of automation…

Yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set,…

Dr Ed Lu is an American physicist and former astronaut.  He was one of the opening speakers at this year’s Marketing Society conference.  How cool is that.  Everyone wants to hear from an astronaut. He flew on two space shuttle flights and made an extended 6 month stay on the International Space Station.   He…

Football: a beautiful game and a business. If there were more women involved in football at senior levels there would be better performance. When there are more women involved in senior management of businesses there is better performance. Is football really that different? There’s plenty of research into the benefits of gender balance for business. …

Have you been keeping up with the latest investigations into the Dark Matter of the universe?  100s of millions of pounds have been spent searching for Dark Matter.  Physicists have been searching for 3 decades.  Not only have they not found it they still don’t know what it is that they are looking for. Jonathan…

A long time ago, in full service ad agencies, TV buying was a manual, spot by spot process.  One of the first rules of TV buying for new buyers was that you had to buy 70% of a TV schedule in peak airtime, ie between 1730 and 2300. Most TV schedules to this day will…

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower” – Camus Autumn is well and truly upon us now.  The nights are drawing in.  The clocks are going back, we’re stocking up for Guy Fawkes and many of us are thankfully donning the black tights of concealment. The ad industry is gearing up for…

At the Royal Television Society conference last month there were calls for “Fresh blood in the funding mix” This felt a bit strange to me, as a panellist from the media agency sector.  We have for a long time now been including branded content as a crucial part of the content and connections mix of…

The machines are coming. In the course of talking about The Glass Wall, success strategies for women at work and businesses that mean business, some people have told me and my co-author Kathryn that there really is no need to be anxious about gender inequality in senior management.  They speak comfortably about the rise of…