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What's it like, as a foreigner, to set up a business within the ever-growing and shape-shifting creative industry of Amsterdam?
Did you send anyone to Cannes this year?
The founder of FinchFactor and representative for the Orange Lions about the introduction and relevance of the 'newborn' Glass Lion.
There are few industry events that illustrate the benefits of 'professional play' more clearly than the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Technology is taking over the world. Not a particularly shocking statement, but according to the tech giants and gurus who took to the stage at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2014, technology will soon be at a level to compete with, and eventually exceed the limitations of, the human brain.
Even though Cannes is this week’s hotspot in terms of creativity and advertising, it is worth looking at other places where inspiration and ingenuity thrive. One of them, we hear, is Vegas, the 'Gambling capital of the world.'
Why the advertising industry needs to put women in the spotlight.
Internet kitties, a well known phenomena with them being furry, funny, crazy and cute but what if a cat gets threatened with playful punishment?
Awards season is well and truly upon us and the entry deadlines are starting to come thick and fast. It’s a mind-boggling process as more and more festivals seem to pop up every year and some poor soul has to run the gauntlet of the dreaded entry process.
As events have unfolded over the last couple of weeks, the world was faced with a medley of emotions. And at the top of the emotional pyramid sat national pride.
A guy in his twenties said to me yesterday, in all sincerity, “I’ve never written a letter”. He’s also never bought a stamp, but that I think is down to sheer laziness – surely he’s had to post something in his life? The art of letter writing is almost extinct. How much longer before we stop talking to each other?
If a guy is good at PR he’s a ‘spin doctor’. If a woman is good at PR, she’s ‘the PR lady’. Think Alastair Campbell – the orchestrator of New Labour in the UK and Blairism at its most powerful. Think Lynne Franks – a faux Buddhist cymbals-dinging caricature in Absolutely Fabulous.
I have worked as a PR consultant in many guises over the years, from a press office assistant at a local theatre company, to the PR director of an international ad agency.