Ahead of lights out on a new season of Formula One, Jade Wood, CSM’s Group Marketing and Events Manager, takes a closer look at the equally fast and thrilling digital content race.

Marketers face a challenging year ahead but they have the best chance of spotting opportunities and maximising media spend if they understand the shifting trends within the industry and how customers are responding to changing circumstances.

Rather than providing a respite from the permacrisis that affects our daily lives, sport has often added to it over the last 12 months. This has led to many fans and pundits crying for a separation of sport and social issues.

With issues such as climate change, racial inequality, and corporate good being thrust into the limelight, it’s time that brands start listening to their audience.

With more and more marketers scrambling to reach new audiences and develop cookieless solutions, some seem to have forgotten what’s right under their nose.

The New Year is inevitably accompanied by the desire or motivation to cease or initiate certain behaviours. But we all know how quickly good intentions can fall by the wayside.