A look ahead for marcomms in 2019: The technological advances that will hold the key to success

What a year 2018 was. From the early-year challenges of declining trust in all aspects of life, exacerbated by fake news, to the introduction of GDPR all alongside the ever-shifting marcomms sand, it’s been a wild ride.

The thing which really struck me about 2018 is the demonstration of the martech industry’s value through this year’s big acquisitions and mergers. Adobe’s acquisition of Marketo for $4.75bn, following its $1.7bn of Magento. Marlin Equity...

7 January 2019 | Advertising Technology

Consumer 2.0 – how the internet changed everything

Some of the fresh-faced marketing grads reading this will be too young to recall the biggest shift in consumer behaviour for generations.

It happened right under our noses, and if like me, you’re long enough in the tooth to remember a time before smartphones and super-fast broadband, you lived right through it.

Back then, people didn’t all carry powerful supercomputers around in their pockets. When you needed to buy something, you’d ask a salesperson for...

31 July 2018 | Campaigns

2017 in review: The battle for shorter attention spans

Brands now have as little as 8 seconds with consumers before they lose their attention.

You can see why – while Netflix says it believes sleep is its biggest competitor - anyone who has lost a weekend to back-to-back episodes of Mindhunter and Dark knows our attention is continually diverted by a constant stream of push notifications from social channels, messaging apps and emails.

It means I’ll have to fight hard to keep you reading this piece, but, in 2017, the...

15 December 2017 | Content Marketing