INSIGHTS

Why the best businesses start with people, trust, and a little bit of fun “It’s all about culture. And if you are not having fun, you are probably doing it wrong.” That may sound simple, but it is one of the most important truths inside any organization. Culture is not a poster on the wall, a line in a presentation, or a side initiative that gets attention only when there is a staffing issue or a morale problem. Culture is the way people experience the work, every day. It is

For years, marketers talked about social like it was one line item in the mix - important, sure, but still secondary to the “real” brand work. That thinking no longer holds. Social has become one of the primary places where brands are built, challenged, validated, and chosen. That matters because it changes the assignment. Social is not just where campaigns get adapted, it is where relevance gets tested in real time. And in a landscape where attention is fragmented and patien

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is shaping up to be less of a sporting event and more of a global marketing cage match. With the tournament spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico and expanded to, for the first time, a monstrous 48 teams, brands are treating WC26 like the Super Bowl, Olympics, Coachella, the Oscars, and Comic-Con all rolled into one giant, sweaty, stressed-out, emotionally unstable soccer ball. Obviously, hundreds are hitching their summertime train to th

Emotion is the best way to create work that works Just a few years ago - OK, I am pretty old, so it was likely more like a LOT of years ago - I was at a creative directors' seminar listening to and interacting with folks from some of the biggest agencies in the country at the time. This Wieden & Kennedy, Chiat/Day, Goodby, BBDO - you get the drift. At that time one of the presenters mentioned that we are subjected to 3000 ad messages a day. He went on to say that we can only

Shopper marketing has always lived in the tension between insight, constraint, and speed. Shopper marketing lives in the space between what retailers want, what shoppers actually do, and what brands can realistically execute. The challenge has always been turning fragmented insight into ideas that work in the real world - often under tight timelines, tight budgets, and even tighter constraints. That’s why AI matters so much to shopper agencies right now. Not because it replac