Nicola Kemp

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About

Nicola Kemp is Editorial Director of BITE, where she oversees consumer trends, innovation, and interviews with industry thought-leaders from across the creative industries. She started her career as a financial journalist before specialising in technology, social trends and marketing. Her work has appeared across titles including Campaign, WGSN, M&M Global, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Guardian and The Observer. A passionate advocate for diversity in all its forms she won The Women in Marketing Journalist of the year award for her work championing diversity in the creative industries. She was named as one of the 200 women redefining the creative industry by The Dots an #EverydayAction award winner by Bloom, a Pitch 100 Superwoman and a Campaign Trailblazer of the future. With a 3 year old daughter and a 5 year old son Nicola is always on the look-out for new feminist fairy-tales to add to their ever-increasing book collection.


More from Nicola Kemp

Event Coverage

Take the time for a day of radical inspiration

By Nicola Kemp

Why this year’s BITE LIVE is worth both your time and investment.

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Opinion

Nicola Kemp appears on BBC Radio 5 Live

By Nicola Kemp

BITE Managing Editor Nicola Kemp was a guest on Sarah Brett's show, with Geoff Lloyd filling in. She talks Twitter's decision to ban political advertising from its platform and more

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Why the four day week is not enough

By Nicola Kemp

In the face of a fundamental shift in attitudes to work, Nicola Kemp, Managing Editor for Creativebrief’s BITE, asks whether the creative industries need to work harder at embracing a different approach.

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Opinion

Enough: The death of Caroline Flack raises urgent questions for our industry

By Nicola Kemp

How can we talk about responsibility in advertising if we don’t tackle the reality of a media ecosystem that hounds women to death, asks Nicola Kemp

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Press

BITE LIVE is proud to be DICE Certified and Approved

By Nicola Kemp

BITE LIVE announces it is DICE Certified and Approved, demonstrating their commitment to making diversity a priority across their events and on their editorial platform.

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Opinion

Calling time on advertising’s toxic Christmas tradition

By Nicola Kemp

After a year like no other, Nicola Kemp, Editorial Director of Creativebrief, believes that it's time to reset the rules and hold back on toxic behaviour, starting with a less unjustifiably critical reaction to the year's Christmas commercials.

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Opinion

Mother disruptor; why brands should pay attention to breastfeeding’s marketing moment

By Nicola Kemp

Nicola Kemp, Editorial Director at Creativebrief, celebrates the recent campaigns which honestly tackle the challenges faced by new mothers, but worries that the advertising industry is still invoking 'the motherhood penalty' on many women's careers.

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Press

Nicola Kemp appears on Radio 4 to talk Ronaldo and Coca-Cola

By Nicola Kemp

Our resident brand expert Nicola Kemp appeared on World at One earlier to talk about the moment of Cristiano Ronaldo moving those Coca-Cola bottles.

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Press

Lioness success - what's next?

By Nicola Kemp

Our Editorial Director, Nicola Kemp explores the importance of closing the participation gap following the Lioness's victory at the 2022 Euros.

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Press

Nicola Kemp hosts 'Don't Mind the Gap, Close It' at UKCF2022

By Nicola Kemp

Lbbonline features Nicola Kemp's, Editorial Director at Creativebrief, panel at the UK Creative Festival 2022.

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Press

Stop funding violent misogyny in mainstream media brands

By Nicola Kemp

Nicola Kemp, Editorial Director at Creativebrief, featured in Campaign, speaking out on advertisers who are funding a media narrative that fuels violence against women.

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Press

Ipsos UK's ad of the year 2022

By Nicola Kemp

Our Editorial Director, Nicola Kemp, is featured in Ipsos' analysis of Virgin Atlantic x Lucky Generals ad of the year 'See the World Differently'. 

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Press

Nicky Kemp: The Media Leader Column 2023

By Nicola Kemp

Our Editorial Director, Nicola Kemp's monthly column in The Media Leader focuses on creating a more inclusive and open space for employees within the advertising industry

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Press

The Media Leader podcast with Nicola Kemp

By Nicola Kemp

Our Editorial Director, Nicola Kemp, joins Omar Oakes to talk about the progress women have made in making media a more equitable career and the barriers which still remain.

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Press

Ipsos Views - Making Magnificent Marketing

By Nicola Kemp

In the latest instalment of Ipsos' monthly series of its Ipsos Views podcast, our Editorial Director, Nicola Kemp speaks to Ipsos' Samira Brophy about how to make advertising more inclusive and more compelling as cultural and social attitudes change.

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