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True's Ellie Nicolaou explores the key lessons from last month's IPA Media Planning and Strategy Summit and gives her thoughts on what this could mean for the industry's future.
Ellie Nicolaou
1st October 2024
How to ensure that the creative assets you develop are commercially effective - and how to prove it. Gurdeep Puri, tutor of the IPA Advanced Strategic Effectiveness course explores why we need to...
Gurdeep Puri
9th September 2024
There is such compelling evidence across so many categories about effective brand building that you’d be forgiven for wondering why more brands are not posting better results.
Andrew Geoghegan
23rd May 2024
Zayem McTear, Strategist at Lucky Generals, shares her journey from account managing to planning and how seeing planning from the outside became a key advantage point for her.
Zayem McTear
15th February 2024
I’d encourage as many of you as possible to start 2024 by thinking about how you can turn all that hard work over the past couple of years into an IPA paper to garner the recognition and reward...
Cat Wiles
8th January 2024
Kandice Quain, Media Manager at Bray Leino and apprenticeship mentor of her agency’s DEI team, Open House, highlights the key role of apprenticeships in shaping a more inclusive future for the...
Simon Frazier
Channel 4's Bansri Shah explores why evaluation not only provides the evidence to justify investment into advertising but ensures that money is being spent in the most effective way to ensure...
Bansri Shah
3rd January 2024
BBH's Will Roscoe examines the role of the brief and the extent to which the brief could be viewed as the most influential factor in developing the communications strategy.
Will Roscoe
2024 is due to be a bumper year for UK advertising with the Olympics and Paralympics, UEFA Euros, and the likelihood of a General Election all due in the next 12 months. From AI becoming mainstream...
IPA
2nd January 2024
Do you know what colour hitchhikers should wear? Do you know the best way to get people to read your emails? Do you know what is at the top of Amol Rajan’s Spotify Wrapped list? And do you know...
Paul Bainsfair
14th December 2023
AI might have been the word of the year for Adland, but there were also plenty of other highlights in 2023. From a return to the feel-good factors in creative to the incredible people that make up...
Janet Markwick and Rhona Glazebrook share their key takeouts from the Campaign in-housing summit and suggest how agencies can respond to the rise of in-housing.
Janet Markwick & Rhona Glazebrook
31st October 2023
Carat's Maddy Sim and Joe Molony argue that when it comes to media behaviours, "the more things change, the more they stay the same", but when looking deeper you can see the ever-increasing...
Maddy Sim & Joe Molony
19th September 2023
OMD’s Charlie Ebdy assesses what his prize-winning 2015 IPA Excellence Diploma dissertation got right – and wrong – about today’s brand building challenges.
Charlie Ebdy
13th September 2023
Les Binet and Peter Field’s 2013 IPA seminal report, 'The Long and The Short of It', woke up the advertising industry to the dangers of short-termism. Ten years and several reports later, the...
Alison Hoad
Effective media planners have always needed self-confidence. Now do they also need a new name? Media Architects, Investment Consultants, Comms Navigators, or Campaign Visionaries… it’s time to...
Jenny Biggam
12th September 2023
IPA Effectiveness Accreditation Judge Neil Rycraft sees new measurement challenges ahead. All investment, no matter how seemingly marginal needs an approach to baseline its performance.
Neil Rycraft
7th September 2023
Despite the complexity of the modern advertising industry, and thanks largely to the IPA, we are able to summarise best advertising practice equally concisely: “Advertise. Not too cautiously....
Laurence Green
6th September 2023
Anna Legros, Strategy Director Ogilvy, and Joe Procter, Managing Partner, Open Partners compare notes on how artificial intelligence can change the way agencies work – or not.
Anna Legros and Joe Procter
25th May 2023
Matt Hill, Director of Research & Planning at Thinkbox, the marketing body for UK commercial TV, argues that while investing in ESOV is not popular, it can give brands a competitive edge.
Matt Hill
Simon Gregory, Chief Strategy Officer at BBH and Industry Judge at the IPA Effectiveness Awards 2022 asks if there is another way to think about effectiveness.
Simon Gregory
Lisa Morgan, Managing Director of Generation Media, shares her learnings from Ad Week Europe. With in excess of 7,000 attendees, 400 speakers, 150 sessions and even Simon Cowell in attendance,...
Lisa Morgan
Janet Hull OBE announced that she is to retire from her position as Director of Marketing Strategy at the IPA. Former IPA Presidents Nicola Mendelsohn, Julian Douglas, and Les Binet are among those...
11th May 2023
PAMCo’s Simon Redican explores the key findings from our recent launch of TouchPoints Making Sense: The Commercial Media Landscape (Fifth Edition) which brings together audience data from across...
Simon Redican
23rd March 2023
Simon Crunden, Managing Director at Republic of Media and CEO of The Freethinking Group breaks down the findings of the IPA's latest Making Sense: The Commercial Media Landscape report and why...
Simon Crunden
20th March 2023
Wavemaker Manchester's Lauren Greenhough takes stock of the media consumption landscape after a whirlwind year and explains why you shouldn't let yourself or your clients be swayed by headlines and...
Lauren Greenhough
Head of Voice at Grey London, Bee Pahnke explains why there is an epidemic of male violence against women, why they launched Unite for Her to combat it, and what brands can do to help.
Bee Pahnke
6th February 2023
Sofia Pires, winner of the President’s Prize for Outstanding Body of Work in the 2022 IPA Excellence Diploma in Brands, explores System 3: the artificial intelligence we access to help us solve...
Sofia Pires
26th January 2023
Isabelle Bale, winner of the Chair’s Prize for Attitude and Inspiration for the 2023 IPA Excellence Diploma in Brands, argues her belief that thinking in a non-binary way, with shades of grey...
Isabelle Bale
As part of the 2022 IPA Excellence Diploma in Brands, Mark Gibbs explains how a climate of crises and mistrust has provided brands with the opportunity to use ethics as a tool for differentiation,...
Mark Gibbs
As part of the 2022 IPA Excellence Diploma in Brands, Red Brick Road's Lisa Gulley explores how thinking counter-intuitively about brand behaviours: embracing the discomfort of pain, truth and the...
Lisa Gulley
As part of the 2022 IPA Excellence Diploma in Brands, Hearts&Science's Lysette Jones argues that we have to take steps to understand how small brands can break through the hold that big brands have...
Lysette Jones
