Think pieces

Eight big questions for 2018

By Jade Tomlin, Creative Director at Tribal Worldwide, DDB UK

What has changed (or not) about the business of creating names

I have been working as a namer for two decades and in the era of digital and artificial intelligence

The Marketing Society announces a new Chair for Hong Kong

Current Chair, Partner & Leader of the PwC Experience Centre, Guy Parsonage, will step down

Top ten charity campaigns of 2017

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What makes the best charity marketing campaigns of 2017 is to stand out and be noticed with a great channel idea and a real audience focus

The Guardian redesign

It’s not easy selling news these days: it’s hardly a front page story that newspaper sales have been slowly heading south

Freelancers can deliver on more than just brief…

People who work as freelancers make up 40% of the design and media workforce...

The Marketing Society India

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Having been the UK's most influential network of senior marketers since 1959...

Don’t speak to me in that typeface!

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Why the fury over bad fonts?

Now + Next 2018

What’s new and next in the world of marketing? Smarter technology, innovative brands and courageous marketers … Big ideas for the year ahead.

Some advertising resolutions we should at least try to keep this year

6 New Year resolutions for marketers

Note from the CEO: January 2018

This year we’re being even braver.

Meet our new Chair and Board

We are kicking off 2018 with our new Chair Craig Inglis, Customer Director John Lewis who will lead our talented

Four things about #digitaltransformation

If you don’t do it yourselves, don’t complain if someone digitally transforms you, warns Russell Davies

The future of women and consumer tech

Women will control more than two-thirds of consumer wealth in the Us over the next ten years and are more likely than men to buy tablets, laptops or smartphones

Does 'brave marketing' do more harm than good?

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Dan Cullen-Shute's New Year plea is to 'stop trying to be brave'

Google survey: key industry issues 2018

What are the key challenges you face and which organisations do you think are best placed to inform and inspire?

Nudging travel energy consciousness

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Climate change is one of the most pressing issues in our society today.

To reduce and minimise the devastating losses

Hands that wash dishes

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This is the year for action, writes Jo Arden

The brave approach to launching a product

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Have you heard? Brave is the new black. 

The role of failure in brave marketing

Why not reframe failure so that the discussion is focused on ROI?

The Marketing Society Middle East

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Having been the UK's most influential network of senior marketers since 1959...