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How Hendrick’s Gin and Space redefined experiential marketing

By Nicola Kemp

By placing experience at the heart of its creative proposition, Hendrick’s Gin has achieved sales growth in a highly competitive market.

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Bournemouth

By Matt Clarke

Matt Clarke, Client Director at Walker, is our South Coast tour guide, showing us some of the sights, & explaining why more and more people are swapping city living for a healthy dose of sea air, down in sunny Bournemouth.

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Taking aim: Why brands should swot up on esports

By Luke Jackson-Smart

Innovations in technology and changes in media consumption have brought us to a key moment in esports. Luke Jackson-Smart, Associate Director at Kazoo highlights the brand opportunities.

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Why it’s time for car manufacturers to put women in the driving seat

By Erminia Blackden

Women are the perfect, and to date hugely overlooked, audience for electric vehicles. But, as Erminia Blackden, Strategy Director at ENGINE asks, will manufacturers realise this in time?

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Why truth is the most important ingredient in brand experiences

By Alistair Niven

A brand experience must be authentic and transparent so that consumers actively want to be part of it. Alistair Niven, Account Strategist at BD Network believes that if brands are truthful, trust will follow.

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‘What’s your name?’: How Starbucks and Iris are championing LGBTQ representation

By Izzy Ashton

Starbucks and Iris’ award-winning ad demonstrates the massive power of the creative industries to come together to drive culture through authentic representation.

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Escapism, stress relief and wonder: Today's experience economy

By Luke D’Arcy

Luke D’Arcy, UK President at Momentum Worldwide highlights some of the key pillars of the experience economy, from participation to co-creation, and experience with purpose.

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The importance of not being earnest

By Matt Wyatt

Matt Wyatt, Executive Planning Director at SNAP LDN introduces Purplebricks’ partnership with Team GB, as he invites brands to drop the lofty stuff and take themselves less seriously.

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Why sleep matters

By Pedro Martins

As research shows that two thirds of us aren’t getting enough sleep, Pedro Martins, Director at Total Media examines his own understanding of sleep, championing the internal policies that better align with people's lifestyles & improve employee wellbeing.

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Diageo CMO Syl Saller: “Who makes the work matters”

By Nicola Kemp

Syl Saller, Chief Marketing Officer at Diageo, has underlined the importance of driving diverse creative leadership to create the best work.

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Credos Director Karen Fraser: “The opportunity to rebuild trust is clear”

By Izzy Ashton

Credos new research underlines the opportunity for industry to rebuild public trust by investing in advertising which makes a clear social contribution.

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LEAD 2020: The New Age of Responsibility

By Izzy Ashton

Industry and government leaders took to the stage at the Advertising Association’s annual LEAD conference to explore how businesses can build trust, act responsibly and inspire societal change.

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MP calls on industry to take action to drive diversity and inclusion forward

By Nicola Kemp

Nadhim Zahawi MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has urged the industry to sharpen its focus on diversity and inclusion in order to drive business growth.

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ITV CEO: “Advertising is about amplifying your values, not creating them”

By Nicola Kemp

Dame Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive of ITV, has called on brands to take a long-term and authentic approach to purpose-driven marketing.

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