A Marketing Week Career and Salary Survey found that 53% of marketers have no training in marketing. More than half. To most discerning hospitality businesses, that should be a pretty worrying problem...

LinkedIn is alive at the moment with posts about the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. I’ve never been but it certainly feels like I’m there when I scroll through my feed. If it’s not...

Genius brand building – or lad culture on life support?

Foster’s have just dropped a new campaign called Love You Cans and, instead of inspirational slogans or limited-edition graphics, the cans are ...

Picture it: a working-class town up in t'north. The sun’s blazing (or 'crackin' t'flags' as we say up there). The beer’s warm and just down the road from Heaton Park, where the Oasis reunion is about ...

Marketers love to talk about segmentation but, too often, they get it completely wrong. One of the biggest mistakes is treating broad, arbitrary groups (like industry sectors or entire generations) as...

Marketers love the idea of uncovering some hyper-specific, hidden insight that will unlock success. They think that great marketing strategy comes from sophisticated data models, complex algorithms, a...