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Channel 4 Opens an 'Instant Re4ch' Door for Advertisers
Channel 4 Sales launches Instant Re4ch to make buying across its streaming and broadcast estate faster and more automated.
2 days ago2 min read


Debenhams Goes Long and Starry for Its 2026 Christmas Film
Debenhams kicks off the festive ad season early with a celebrity-led, long-form film built around the ease of online shopping.
2 days ago2 min read


Heinz and Greggs Throw a 'Brinner' Party to Make Breakfast the New Dinner
Two of Britain's best-loved food brands are tapping the 'brinner' trend with pop-up parties and a serious push behind breakfast.
2 days ago2 min read


OpenAI Casts a Trio of Grannies to Show Off ChatGPT's New Voice
OpenAI's new UK campaign skips the sci-fi and hands ChatGPT Voice to a cast of sharp-witted grandparents getting everyday things done.
2 days ago3 min read


Sports Sponsorship on a Small-Business Budget
Big brands commit to leagues for a decade. Small businesses can borrow the same logic at a fraction of the cost - here's how to make sports sponsorship work on a modest budget.
5 days ago3 min read


Hire an Agency or Build In-House? How to Decide
Agency, in-house or a hybrid of both? It's one of the most common marketing questions - and the right answer depends on your stage, your needs and how much specialist work you really have.
5 days ago3 min read


Do Loyalty Schemes Actually Work?
Loyalty schemes are back in fashion, from supermarkets to drinks giants. But do they actually build loyalty - or just discount to people who'd have bought anyway? Here's the honest answer.
5 days ago3 min read


How to Write a Brief That Gets You Great Creative Work
Great creative work almost always starts with a great brief. Here's a simple, practical guide to briefing a designer, agency or freelancer so you get work that actually moves the needle.
5 days ago3 min read


Brand vs Performance Marketing: Getting the Balance Right
Performance marketing wins the quarter; brand marketing wins the decade. Here's how to balance short-term sales activation with long-term brand-building - and why most businesses get the mix wrong.
5 days ago3 min read


Are Celebrity Ads Losing Their Shine?
Some big brands are quietly walking away from star power while others double down. When does a celebrity endorsement still earn its fee - and when does it just rent you someone else's audience?
5 days ago3 min read


What Are Distinctive Brand Assets (and Why Firms Go to Court for Them)?
A square of chocolate, a shade of purple, a five-note jingle: distinctive brand assets are the shortcuts that make a brand instantly recognisable. Here's how to build and protect yours.
5 days ago3 min read


Merx Marketing Takes On the New Website, Trademark and Comms for Ratatouille Restaurant
Merx Marketing is building the new website, securing the trademark and running communications for Ratatouille Restaurant, a classic French bistro in Muswell Hill.
5 days ago3 min read


Coca-Cola Brings Back Coke Zone to Win Shopper Loyalty
Coca-Cola is reviving its Coke Zone loyalty scheme in the UK, betting that value-hungry shoppers and first-party data make rewards worth doing again.
5 days ago3 min read


Elysium Construction marks ten years with a gala at One Great George Street
Elysium Construction marked ten years with a black-tie gala at the Institution of Civil Engineers — from a one-person start-up in 2016 to principal contractor on major UK energy projects.
6 days ago2 min read


Tesco puts influencers on the shelf in a retail-media shake-up
Tesco Media, powered by dunnhumby, has unveiled its biggest retail-media overhaul yet, adding a new ad platform, shoppable formats, on-site video, in-store influencer content and a new measurement framework.
6 days ago3 min read


Deliveroo and Tesco star in their own buddy movie
Deliveroo and Tesco have launched WOOHOO!, a buddy-movie-style campaign from Pablo London marking Tesco groceries, Clubcard prices and points arriving on the Deliveroo app.
6 days ago3 min read


Just Eat ditches celebrities for a cast of puppet animals
Just Eat has retired its celebrity ads for stop-motion animal puppets in a new UK brand platform, The Joy of Everyday, made by McCann London.
6 days ago3 min read


Why Your Small Business Website Isn’t Winning Customers — and How to Fix It
Four fixable reasons sites lose customers — and why fixing beats rebuilding.
Oct 143 min read


What the Google Ads ‘Partner’ Badge Really Means When You Hire an Agency
The three bars behind the badge — and how to use it when choosing an agency.
Oct 143 min read


How Merx Marketing Became a Go-To Website Partner for Growing Businesses
The London agency quietly building dozens of websites — and the Wix + Google Ads playbook behind them.
Oct 144 min read
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