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The Top Marketing Trends for 2023: AI Captures the Most Mindshare, but Marketers Have More on Their Plates

Strategic Communications

When it comes to trend spotting in the marketing space, there’s a bright, shiny thing in the room: artificial intelligence. AI is clearly top of mind for marketers. Market research firm Statista valued the social media advertising market at $207.1

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Be more strategic – A metaphor: Analyse, join and align the dots

Red Star Kim

Political Shifts more regularly than usual International uncertainty Prospect of a General Election Economic Recession and how it will affect things Things now slowing down after Covid Reduced investment Inflation Lower business and consumer confidence Return to offices and changes in property and employment trends Technological Social media – (..)

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PM Conference Report 2022: Strategy implementation, Employer Value Propositions (EVP), Storytelling and Client Feedback

Red Star Kim

With introductory neuroscience lessons (“sensing, meaning, action”) and illustrations of cognitive bias, there was a fantastic example showing how a role play story was used instead of a pitch to win an acquisitive media client using an inciting incident and escalation.