Today’s blog is about collaboration, and the benefits of working together. It’s taken from a 2022 blog by Brian Jacobs of The Cog Blog. Like Brian (and indeed with him), I worked at Leo Burnett for many years, so the below really resonated with me. I...
Discover the 5 trends that’ll dominate Has social media, and the internet as a whole, reached a tipping point? If you were lucky enough to access the first ever website on August 6th, 1991, then you – for one brief moment – had officially seen...
Words matter. We all know that and yet within the media world we use the same word to mean different things. Further, and worryingly we don’t let on that this is the case, thus causing confusion and misunderstandings. Take the simplest thing. We speak of digital...
The blog below is reproduced in full from The Cog Blog because every advertiser needs to think hard about Brian Jacob’s message. What’s It Got To Do With Us? 13 October 2022 When I was at college, I remember being told by our advertising lecturer that we should...
Gen Zers 18–24 are reshaping the way brands connect with consumers Unlike the generations that came before them, most Gen Zers don’t remember a time before smartphones and social media. For Gen Z, using social media to follow their interests and favorite...
This week’s post is in the form of a Q&A in which Brian Jacobs of Cog Blog opines on a number of matters apparently of great import to the media and advertising industry (based unscientifically on frequency of appearance in his social media feeds). From Elon Musk...
