February 8, 2016

On The Beach pt 1 – A Conference for Everyone

Last week we sent Alana King, Strategist and Tom Willner-Reid, Commercial Finance Manager, to Silicon Beached. Here, Alana writes on the significance, or not, of a conference where all the speakers ‘happened to be’ women. Part 2 is here.   Something strange happened this week: I attended a conference (Silicon Beached) where all ten speakers were women. Even stranger, the conference promotion...

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January 13, 2016

The New Mission Control

Until about three hours ago, I thought that the people who sent rockets into space looked like this. Or him. or them. These guys maybe. But not *these* guys. Or this guy.   And definitely not her. And these two? No way. (actually, I’m still not sure about these two) Watching SpaceX’s PR video (above) showing the successful launch and landing of...

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January 12, 2016

Black Sheep Wanted

It’s thrilling to think that one day we might be looking to hire ‘Avatar programmers’, ‘Chief Drone Experience Designers’ and ‘Cybernetic Directors’, but in all likelihood these roles are still a few years (months?!?) away. Right now, however, BBH London looking to fill two important roles that didn’t exist in agency world ten years ago but are today vitally important in...

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December 21, 2015

A Year of Linking Dangerously

Wow. That was a year. Below a month-by-month selection of the linking and thinking that kept us ticking in 2015. Thanks, as always for reading and sharing so generously and thanks in particular to the many many thinkers, makers and doers who have inspired us this year. Happy Holidays. ************************* January kicked off with some predictions and questions for the...

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November 26, 2015

tl;dr – some recent longreads

Yes, we know that it’s all about video these days and streaming boxsets and hashtags and old people marooned on the moon, but for thousands of years humankind has used words to convey complex ideas and so here are lots of words, with a roundup of some of the best longreads that have recently crossed our tablets.   Selfie –...

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November 25, 2015

f5 f5 f5 and breathe

f5 f5 f5 f5 and breathe. Aaaaaah. f5 and f5 and f5 yeaaaaaaah. Refreshing my browser doesn’t usually provoke such catharsis. But for the last 24 hours any attempt to revisit a previously reviewed page has resulted in being bounced to google search. So perhaps my reaction is a little more understandable. But you might lose any sympathy when I...

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November 5, 2015

The Case for Content

In last week’s Campaign, venerable ad-man Dave Trott launched a salvo aimed at ‘content’, the word and the business of. BBH’s Digital Publishing Director, Richard Cable, responds below. Dear Dave, We read your article in Campaign with great interest. ‘What is content?’ you asked. You concluded that it wasn’t actually important. Unlike advertising, where the idea is the important thing, ‘content’...

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October 22, 2015

Medium Well Done

A little over a month ago we published our first post on Medium, the first platform we are testing out in our Publishing Laboratory. Since that first piece a further five have been added, for a grand total of 23 minutes of reading as calculated by Medium’s proprietary algorithm. All combined, our stories have received 3187 views and 1625 reads,...

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September 30, 2015

The Nine Nos of Innovation

Last week I spent two days at the glorious British seaside, attending and speaking at Silicon Beach in Bournemouth. Highlights included Louisa Heinrich of Superhuman, on technology as today’s opiate of the masses, a rousing rant from Mark Adams of Vice on attention in the 21st century and Nicklas Bergman, who not only admitted to passing on the opportunity to invest...

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September 15, 2015

Official Partner of the Future

Author: Richard Atkins, Production Director BBH London Last Monday I went to IFA – the  Consumer electronics show in Berlin (a bit like CES in America)     Here are my top 5 things. 1. I went to my first World Premiere It was for a Washing Machine. It didn’t have a red carpet. 2. Project Morpheus Sony’s version of the...

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September 8, 2015

Introducing The Publishing Laboratory

Author: Jeremy Ettinghausen, Innovation Director, BBH London & Labs Blogging has been good for us and good to us. Since launching this blog in 2009 we’ve published hundreds of posts, read thousands of comments, engaged in dozens of great conversations and made many new friends. Of course we’ve also been DDoS’d, hacked and spammed, but that’s all part of the rich...

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August 26, 2015

Joyful and Extraordinary, meet Dismal and Mundane

With it’s gleeful puncturing of the tropes of advertising – a world where families chuckle around the breakfast table and where it is always golden hour – the promo for Banksy’s ‘bemusement park’ might just be the most interesting piece of marketing of the year so far. Given his disdain for advertising and his skill in the dark arts of self promotion,...

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