This year’s Mobile World Congress agenda has seen a rise in talks about content but it comes at a time where advertisers have numerous platforms to choose from and Vice’s chief executive, Shane Smith, believes that there’s too much investment in the latter. He said: “If you embrace new technologies you are going to need …

Let’s start with a story. To analyze the effectiveness of its TV commercial storyboard, Makro, an international digital and in-store retailer, asked neuroscience research firm Neurensics to conduct an f-MRI study to determine people’s reactions. The experiments showed that the storyboard scored lower than average in effectiveness: “It activated more negative than positive emotions. In …

WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell says short-termism is the biggest threat to future growth; he believes President Trump’s pro-business agenda will help solve the problem.Sir Martin Sorrell’s greatest worry and what he believes will have the greatest negative impact on future growth is short-termism. Speaking this morning (2 March) at Deloitte’s Media and Telecoms conference, the WPP boss said: “It’s not three-month-old …

The A World To Win Conference is being organised from 20-24 March 2017 by the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization (EHERO) and the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE), which are celebrating their 5th and 20th anniversary respectively.  NIMA has accredited the programme for Monday March 20th with 6 PE points for accredited Marketeers.

Boxing for ideas As marketers, creativity needs to be second nature to us. But how do we boost our creativity? In this series of blogs, I want to share my experience and learnings that I personally apply on a daily basis. Like many people, when we are struggling for ideas we force ourselves to get …

Museum content development and content marketing have one important principle in common: creating memorable experiences. Think back to the last time you visited a museum. Did you realize that you were walking through a three-dimensional version of the user experience you’re trying to create as a content marketer? Because that’s exactly what you were doing. …

Door Marieke Heesakkers SMP Het delen van drie zorgvideo’s, opgenomen met de meest toonaangevende architectenbureaus van Nederland, leverde Limburgia veel merkbare en ook meetbare resultaten op. Brand awareness, goodwill, 25 procent meer offerte-aanvragen, 23 procent meer verkeer naar de website, waarde(n)volle interacties op social media, maar vooral goede gesprekken. Dat het ertoe geleid heeft dat …

L’Oréal Paris is collaborating with The Prince’s Trust to launch its ‘All Worth It’ programme, an e-mentorship initiative designed to help boost young people’s self worth. The programme hopes to help 10,000 young people by “turning self-doubt into self-worth”. It is in response to figures released today (23 February) by The Prince’s Trust showing that …

This guest post by Erica Seidel is part of a regular column she writes, Ask the Martech Recruiter. Erica runs The Connective Good, a retained executive recruiting firm that helps companies land leaders in martech, marketing, digital strategy, analytics, and market research. Dear Erica, I have 10 years of digital marketing experience and want to …