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...
Banning the c-word ('client'), acting as one team, sharing data, incentives and pressure to perform are notable ingredients...
“I would be very surprised if sooner than five years, we don’t have psychologists on the payroll,” said GroupM CEO Mark...
In many ways some of these topics are perennial issues. But it’s also hard to escape the reality – in a room packed to the...
Origin Energy has invested a truckload on internal IT systems, but when it comes to digital marketing, it relies on a bunch...
Among all the talk of big tech, not-so-big tech, adtech, martech, the ACCC’s digital platforms report and brand trust at last...
The computers are coming and as AI and machine learning develops, how we interact and use devices will change fundamentally,...