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APRIL 17, 2018
A new CMO usually means a pitch but these days CMOs seem to want a new model agency relationship too. New Volkswagen CMO Jochen Sengpiehl (VW Group has a new CEO in Herbert Diess too) has announced he wants to move to a more centralised model, built around four big hubs: Europe, the US, Latin.
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APRIL 19, 2018
Mobile Apps Unlocked, Grow.co’s premier conference for all things mobile marketing, is right around the corner, and we couldn’t be more excited. This year’s MAU will take place at the glamorous MGM Grand in Las Vegas on April 25 and 26. While the event is only days away, there’s still time to sign up to attend if you haven’t done so already. If you’re still on the fence, here are the main reasons why we think you should come. 1) It’s the biggest mobile app conference of the year Few events come
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APRIL 15, 2018
That’s what a blogger for Forbes tells us: Future Of Work: Research Shows Millennials, Gen Xers And Baby Boomers Make Better Decisions Together by Erik Larson “Decision-making teams that include a wide range of younger and older employees significantly outperform more narrowly young or old teams.” Good article, worth a read. But it’s difficult to get too excited about this musty revelation.
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APRIL 18, 2018
To make Peet’s Cold Brew, the craft coffee company steeps freshly-roasted East African Baridi coffee slowly, without heat, to create a refreshingly bold and smooth beverage. To make Peet’s Cold Brew the beverage of choice at Coachella, Peet’s lined up a series of experiences, a.k.a. “brand activations,” for the music-loving people to enjoy, including an […].
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
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APRIL 20, 2018
AccorHotels is launching a new TV and online advertising campaign in the UK – the first from new agency Brothers and Sisters – highlighting “real-life examples of spontaneous acts of service” from its ibis, Novotel and Mercure hotels. Here’s the first online film on the theme ‘From the Heart.’ AccorHotels UK & Ireland V-P James.
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APRIL 19, 2018
Over the past few years, class action plaintiffs have filed a slew of lawsuits against online retailers under the New Jersey Truth in Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (TCCWNA), which prohibits a seller from offering or entering into consumer contracts that contain any term that violates a “clearly established” New Jersey or federal law.
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APRIL 19, 2018
Here’s a jolly new film for Stella Artois from Mother – featuring the barmaid of your dreams, back in the kind of French bar that’s done so much service for Stella in the past. So good it makes you put your phone(s) away. Nice to see an old-style beer ad despite the party (most beer.
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APRIL 20, 2018
It isn’t a bad idea to zag when everyone else is zigging and French agency HumanSeven has set up its own content lab (doesn’t everyone the days?) in which people drop everything else to think great thoughts. Unusual in the era of speedy everything. This is for the Citroen C3 although there’s no conventional branding.
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APRIL 19, 2018
It’s only mid-April and we have already seen two jaw-dropping moments in the advertising industry so far this year. The first was Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional appearance last week. Despite coming across as a bizarre mixture of a subdued Larry Grayson and an extra from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, he mostly ran rings around.
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APRIL 17, 2018
Karmarama’s World Cup ad for BetFair could be seen as an “up yours” to Accenture, the management consultancy that bought the agency at the end of 2016. The spot starts with a doom-laden message which could be seen in a math men versus mad men context: “They say that the machines have won. That algorithms.
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APRIL 17, 2018
Exactly a year ago bumped into Johnny Hornby and Mark Read (newly-anointed joint COO of WPP with Andrew Scott) at a lunch where Hornby inquired of Read what it felt like to be the heir apparent to Sir Martin Sorrell. Read smiled, beadily. Here’s Hornby, founder and CEO of The&Partnership which is 49.9 per cent.
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APRIL 14, 2018
Finding a dog-friendly friend to walk and/or watch Fido while you’re away from home can be difficult. That’s where Rover.com, the nation’s largest network of 5-star pet sitters and dog walkers, can be of assistance. The company’s network of pet sitters has grown nearly 90% over the past year, now topping more than 200,000 in […].
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APRIL 20, 2018
Y&R is back for the UK Premier League’s Primary Stars education programme, now involving 15,000 primary schools as well as various online and home learning activities. So it’s signed up some unlikely volunteer teachers including Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott and Davy Klaassen from Everton. Poor Klaassen, a Dutch international, has spent so little time on.
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APRIL 20, 2018
PR’s a wonderful thing and it appears to be onwards and upwards at Aegis-owned Carat UK, with Jo Sutherland from the group’s mobile agency Fetch replacing Rick Hirst as CEO of Carat UK. Hirst, who joined from Mcgarrybowen (also owned by Carat’s ultimate owner Dentsu) is moving to an unspecified international role.
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APRIL 20, 2018
Private equity buyers accounted for 22 per cent of the 187 major marcoms M&A deals in the first quarter of 2018 according to Results International but consultancy Capgemini struck the biggest, $500m for US-based digital consultancy LiquidHub, which also has a big operation in India. Dentsu was the most active buyer with seven deals but.
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APRIL 19, 2018
WPP’s new acting COOs Mark Read and Andrew Scott (below) have surfaced publicly for the first time with a memo to WPP’s staff (nobody seems to know quite how many there are – 130,000? 200,000?) outlining the way they see things. And it’s much as before. The memo from Read reads: “Over the last four.
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APRIL 19, 2018
At last, an interesting comment from a WPP insider about the departure of Sir Martin Sorrell. Stephen Allan (below), CEO of WPP’s biggest media agency MediaCom and a veteran of the UK and international media scene, has told the BBC that some people in WPP (including himself presumably) will feel “liberated” by SMS’ departure although.
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APRIL 18, 2018
Did Arthur Sadoun’s Publicis Groupe have a good first quarter of 2018? It says it did, reporting organic growth of 1.6 per cent (compared to minus 1.2 per cent in 2017) but the numbers are skewed by the adoption of accounting standard IFRS15 which alters last year’s numbers too. Under the new regime 2018 Q1.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
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APRIL 18, 2018
We blogged in February about Epps v. Earth Fare , in which the Central District Court of California dismissed a lawsuit under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) because the plaintiff revoked her consent to receive text messages in an unreasonable manner. In that case, the plaintiff attempted to unsubscribe from further messages—in which case additional calls or texts would implicate the TCPA—but she did so with a verbose text message instead of simply replying “STOP,” as ea
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APRIL 18, 2018
In a digital age it’s always useful to remind oneself of the standard of the best print journalism and the New Yorker (now online too, of course) is a good place to look. Here’s author Ken Auletta on Sir Martin Sorrell, ex-head of WPP. It shows that Sorrell is a child of his time and.
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APRIL 18, 2018
WPP’s biggest rival Omnicom kept its head above water in the first quarter of 2017 with revenues up 1.2 per cent to $3.6bn with organic growth year-on-year of 2.4 per cent. Profits rose 9.2 per cent to $264m.
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APRIL 18, 2018
Former Channel 4 boss and St Luke’s founder David Abraham is bouncing back on the scene with the year’s most significant start-up, cross-discipline creative outfit Wonderhood Studios. Wonderhood claims it will forge a new production model by “bringing together skills and capabilities that until now have operated separately.” The new company is structured in the.
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APRIL 18, 2018
MullenLowe UK CEO Dale Gall is leaving after just 18 months in the hot seat, to be replaced by Jeremy Hine, a 20-year MullenLowe veteran. Gall, who came from then Lowe Group’s digital agency Profero, say he’s moving outside the industry. Gall’s last major move was the acquisition of independent London agency 101, which seems.
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APRIL 17, 2018
I have recently read two books on art. In one, William Gompertz suggests that all education should adopt the approach of art schools, which is to learn how to question, not simply to learn to regurgitate for exams. Learning to think should be an important part of education. (In passing, I have often wondered whether.
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APRIL 17, 2018
When the CEO and founder of a big public company resigns in a hurry over allegations of “personal misconduct,” seemingly involving some money, you might expect shareholders to be apprised of the result of the investigation. At the very least the need for one suggests corporate governance failings. But, in the case of departing WPP.
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APRIL 16, 2018
Ikea has come up with another lively ad thanks to the team at Mother. This one starts with a very dull party thrown by some ghosts dressed in white sheets, playing a desultory game of KerPlunk and nibbling on cocktail sausages. A gang of spooks – all dressed up in colourful Ikea textiles – crashes.
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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
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APRIL 16, 2018
Martin Sorrell deciding to call it a day isn’t so surprising despite the gossip about the internal investigation. Can’t believe he dipped in to the Farm Street office tea money or was doing a Harvey with the interns. For me it is more about time, time to decide if the likelihood of choppy waters ahead.
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APRIL 16, 2018
Here’s a characteristically perky number from BETC Paris for Schweppes, trying very hard to be cool again against competition from the likes of Fever-Tree. If it’s clichés you may as well rattle through them. But what’s all this mangerbougerfr. nonsense about five a day? It’s tonic water not absinthe. The world’s gone mad (even the.
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APRIL 16, 2018
The Campaign/Nielsen billings for UK creative agencies have emerged and, as suspected, AMV BBDO’s long term lead has been cut, Omnicom sibling adam&eveDDB narrowing the gap to £96m. AMV had its first full year without Sainsbury’s and the gap may narrow further next year, or even disappear, as A&E will have Camelot, won from AMV.
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APRIL 16, 2018
By Julie Langley Any external candidate to succeed Sir Martin Sorrell as CEO is unlikely to be available to start straight away – at this level many are working to around six months plus notice. That’s a significant hiatus at such a challenging time in the industry. But saying that, the interim leaders are unlikely.
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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.
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