As we approach a new year, we reflect on 2022 and the topics on the minds of our writers and community.

Technology and Innovation

The death of the third-party cookie has forced marketers to innovate. Glyn Shadwell explores the innovative new solutions that you can build into your marketing strategy to build audiences and build consumer trust in a post-cookie world.

The Euros showed the true virtues of women’s sport and how it should be promoted going forward. Matt Readman, Chief Strategy Officer at Dark Horses shares guiding principles to tell more modern and constructive marketing stories within women’s sport.

As the big names depart, will there be a move away from marketing sports through high-profile personalities? Harry Eckersley explores the power of focusing on the collective.

Gender Equality and the Menopause

Sally Leech, Training Director at Henpicked shares her top five tips for how to achieve long-term, sustainable change in your workplace, creating and fostering an inclusive culture for everyone to be at their best. 

Melissa Robertson, CEO at Dark Horses asks why everyone is working so hard to bring young women into the industry, and then spectacularly failing them every step of the way. 

Diversity and Inclusion

Advertising will never be representative of the communities it is trying to reach until every single element of the process is re-analysed and reassessed. Rich Miles, CEO of The Diversity Standards Collective shares his toolkit.

How a company briefs its agency – new or old – will greatly impact the work it receives. Andrew Armitage, Founder of A Digital uncovers what a good, solid and workable agency brief should look like.

To in-house or not to in-house, that is, apparently, the question everyone in the industry is asking. Emma Saunders, Senior Social Media Manager at Avis Budget Group International and Alex Daniell senior creative at Collective share how they work. 

We’ve all read enough about in-housing now to know that as well as the copious positives, there are also a few pretty tough negative elements to contend with. Carolyn Laing, Managing Director at Collective on how to attract the best talent. 

People today are holding brands to new standards and making them accountable for social and environmental responsibility. Assembly Global spoke to their Gen Z employees to hear how they’d like to see businesses evolving. 

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