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Written by Matt Carroll Travel brands are caught between a rock and a hard place right now. Battered by the global ‘shut-down’ that’s left holes in balance sheets, while simultaneously facing consumer demand on an unprecedented scale. So how are you going to market to people, when you can’t afford to market? Answer: find a […]

Written by Matt Carroll With M&S Food recently becoming the latest big-name brand to take creative ‘inhouse’, the debate is hotting up over how to handle the content creation dilemma of decreasing budgets / increasing demand. For most brands it’s a two-way choice: either in-house or outsource it. There is, however, another way – one that

Written by Matt Carroll There’s a lot of doom and gloom surrounding the creative industry right now – which is unsurprising, given the unprecedented challenges the pandemic has thrown up. But while headline-makers focus almost entirely on the negative, it’s important to realise there is another side to this story. Here are five reasons to feel

Written by Matt Carroll Content. It’s the word we love to hate. And the thing we hate to love – because right now it’s impossible to go anywhere without falling over the stuff. The moment you venture online, the trip-wire is triggered and you find yourself bombarded with ‘amazing images’, ‘inspiring stories’ and other things

Written by Matt Carroll 1: Understand Your Audience. Too many brands think only about consumers, when they should be engaging with audiences. While in reality these people are often one and the same, a consumer is someone you sell to and an audience needs to be entertained. They’re very different mind-states. Many brands (and agencies)

Written by Matt Carroll More deliverables, more channels, more often. In recent years, this has been the ‘golden’ rule in content marketing, as brands join a content arms race in a bid to battle for consumer eyeballs. The trouble is, more is not always good. With new channels constantly appearing on the scene, the knee-jerk