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Inspiring Futures Podcast

Edward Cotton is a seasoned strategist working in New York and runs an excellent podcast called 'Inspiring Futures'. For our second appearance on the show - listen to the first one here - we wanted...

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Sleeping Barber podcast

Founders Pieter-Paul von Weiler and Matt Davies joined Sleeping Barber hosts Marc Binkley and Vassilis Douros to discuss the critical role of creative briefs in marketing. 

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What's stopping great ideas from flourishing?

In a webinar we did for the WFA we unpacked what's stopping great ideas from flourishing.  

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‘Suboptimal process’: only 1/3 of agencies receive constructive feedback

As the BetterIdeas Project revealed, only 30% of creative agencies receive clear and constructive feedback from their clients. Whilst it's sometimes difficult to align teams and stakeholders, those...

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New IPA president Karen Martin delivers rousing call to creative action

​Our friends at the UK's Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) have a new President, Karen Martin. She put forward a passionate plea about the importance of creativity and claimed that the...

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Mark Ritson on strategy in briefs

Getting the strategy right before writing a brief is essential. And as Mark Ritson outlines many marketers struggle with this. The data from the BetterBriefs Project research was a key catalyst in...

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Marketing's $200bn black hole

October 2021 was a watershed moment for the marketing industry as BetterBriefs launched its groundbreaking study into where most briefs go wrong and the financial impact a poor brief has.

In one of...

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The Marketoonist on what bad briefs look like

Based on the findings of our BetterBriefs Project, Tom Fishburne a.k.a. The Marketoonist developed this very clever cartoon.

Creative, or marketing briefs as they're also known, can go wrong in so...

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