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PHD Melbourne boss Simon Lawson takes issue with Mark Ritson's suggestion that ESG is being sidelined by a political swing to the right. But he says advertisers and agencies are already failing on the 'S' part of environmental, social and governance – and shirking responsibility for the wider impact...

Marketers are suffering a confidence crisis – and it's easy to see why, says Liam Loan-Lack. They are lumped with all of the risk in driving future business revenues, and in a depressed market, that's a vulnerable position to be in. Meanwhile, the rules of the game are constantly changing. Is there...

Generative AI will almost certainly replace PRs that largely email pitches and press releases and the pseudo journalists that copy, paste and publish them with, at best, a different headline and intro. But the algorithms cannot replace the contacts, back-channelling, horse trading and clandestine...