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Though this arguably falls into the 'thoughts and prayers' camp of Covid ads I'm generally quite scathing about, I've found myself liking...

Tom Fishburne nails it again in his piece on communicating in a crisis. I particularly like his point about empathy vs. sympathy: that em...

Wow. And wow again. Talk about hypocrisy married to a complete failure of empathy, compassion and basic human decency for the key workers...

A glimmer of good news on the environment front, with the announcement of plant-based plastic bottles that are both recyclable and will d...

As WFH and video conferencing becomes the new normal, the BBC have made pix of famous sets available for use as Zoom backgrounds. Got to ...

Yes it's been challenging, but 69% of the population still think the Government have handled the Covid situation badly...which is broadly...

Thought experiment for you... A company sources a bulk order of widgets that are urgently required to keep the production line moving, bu...

Lest we forget there's bigger challenges than Covid-19 out there, this is a a great piece from Mckinsey (the management consultancy) on ...

Cadbury have just released a lovely ad celebrating community spirit under Covid, and asking that we don't forget the lessons of this when...

So says a study from Oxford University reported in the Guardian. Well we can hope, as there's no point going back to how things were as t...

Great video from the Guardian debunking the 'Covid-19 causes 5G' conspiracy theory BS. Now there may be many good arguments against the r...

On to more important matters. In a reflection of how we may need to decide all sorts of things going forward in Covid-time, Reading Uni h...

A great idea from ITV. With everyone stuck at home, and discovering hidden creative talents, offer up 5 of the Nation's favourite ad cam...

Haven't written one of these for many years. Had forgotten 1) how much effect's involved and 2) how rewarding it it is. Because it's fini...

Thanks to John Grant for the chance to have an advance read of his new book Greener Marketing. A vital subject, and one very close to my ...

As well as being the brother of Tim Berners-Lee (he who invented the WWW), Mike Berners-Lee is a professor and fellow of the Institute fo...

I seem to be getting a least one email an hour at the moment inviting me to a different webinar promising the path to success in a (post)...

'Went' to a really good webinar yesterday from Born Social on producing great creative content under lockdown conditions. Lots of inspira...

So says new research from Ipsos Mori. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Particularly as we're a long way down the pecki...