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Marketing Integration on a Plate – Restaurants have the Recipe.

Talking recently with two very dear friends, who have just opened a very cool restaurant in Paris, Les Bobines, (website in French) I found some interesting links between restaurants and.

Have Media Agencies lost their Cannes creativity and does it matter?

Have Media Agencies lost their Cannes creativity and does it matter? Some shocking stats from Cannes this week: It was not a media agency that won the Cannes Media Grand.

Cannes and the co-creative quest for Titanium and Gold Integrated Awards

When I arrived at Saatchi & Saatchi as CEO EMEA I found a company with a proud creative history, but with little sense of the creative present, or any view.

Integrated Marketing Procurement

The first phase of marketing procurement was to apply basic practise: NEGOTIATION. Just affecting smarter structured negotiations with marketing suppliers brought benefits to the client organisations that brought procurement alongside.

Can advertising be brand damaging?

It is harder and harder to avoid advertising. Advertising is everywhere, and in everybody’s faces; in our hands on our mobiles phones, on our social media news streams, online and.

80% of the World’s biggest advertisers face integrated marketing challenges

In the recent research by the WFA 80% of advertisers surveyed said they had challenges with integrated marketing. This corroborates our own research from 2012 (see our homepage download here for full.

Running a (Marketing) Marathon in just 5 Easy Steps

The road to truly integrated marketing can be daunting. It can seem like you are toeing the start line of a marathon. So, with the London Marathon coming up we.

Unicorns and the Benefits of Marketing Integration

I have never seen a Unicorn. No-one I know has ever seen a Unicorn. Well, no-one except my daughter Poppy who had one at the end of the garden for.

Impeccable Integration, Learning Lessons From Luxury Hotels

In luxury hospitality every detail is beautifully looked after, from the person who opens the door of your taxi, the person who greets you when entering the hotel, the receptionist.

Start with the answer, should we do media deals backwards?

Generally speaking media has become a commodity, traded predominantly on price. We know this is a sweeping generalisation, but we feel it to be broadly true. Everyone knows that media.

96Million Reasons To Fix Your Agency Ecosystem

This weeks Euromillions lottery rollover jackpot is an estimated £96million. That is a big prize. We sat and had a coffee with a Global Marketing Director last week. The company is.

David Bowie and The Magic of Marketing Integration

When an integrated marketing campaign works and is deemed effective, often people rightly talk about the creativity; the magic. However, it is really clear, and increasingly so in this fragmented.