Dixons/carphone merger is a prescient move

Tess Waddington

News of the Carphone Warehouse and Dixons merger comes as little surprise since the two have been in talks for months, but it will leave many wondering what the implications are for consumers.  Now that many consumer products are becoming connected – think of the newly launched Vanhawks Valour smart bike, which connects with a […]

Marketing Week Future Trends

Samuel Joy

Marketing Week future trends has been put together to highlight the key areas in which we expect to see significant change, growth or innovation over the next 12 months.

Retailers’ price cuts are hard to avoid

Tess Waddington

The pressure from supermarkets to cut prices throws into question the value consumers place in brands. Sainsbury’s Justin King played down his rivals’ price cutting tactics as a “skirmish” but our research found that 85 per cent of people now prioritise cost over ethics when they shop, and only 13 per cent buy products for […]

Letters: A new focus for Vision 100

Tess Waddington

Recently, Marketing Week launched its Vision 100 list. it purports to highlight the 100 most visionary marketers around. It’s a great list, full of inspirational people who have genuine achievements to their names. However, you’ll be lucky 
to find a B2B marketer in there, 
and that’s disappointing. The absence of B2B marketers highlights a myopia […]

Michael Barnett

PR Opinions Foreword

Michael Barnett

Content and native advertising are substantially changing the nature of marketing today and no discipline is going to feel that drive to change more than PR.

NIck Woods

Killing our little darlings

Michael Barnett

Advertisement feature WE’s Nick Woods argues that whether you lead a PR agency, are part of an agency team or are a client, there is a new crop of PR agencies that prioritise insight, original thinking and adventure.

Richard Millar

The anatomy of a good story

Michael Barnett

Advertisement feature Brands need a new ‘hero’s journey’ to guide them through the overloaded media environment. Richard Millar breaks down the pattern for successful brand storytelling.

John Lewis

The Marketing Week

Samuel Joy

Welcome to The Marketing Week, your guide to the good, the bad and the ugly in the marketing industry over the last seven days.

What women want

Tess Waddington

It’s not just mums marketers are failing (‘The five myths of marketing to mums’). Too many brands concentrate on female stereotypes, treating women as a homogenous group rather than individuals. Worse, they are often ignored by marketers, or patronised with a ‘pink it and shrink it’ approach. Women are complex and play multiple roles. They are also demanding […]