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Our first day was hosted by the brilliant CEO of Found, Tina Judic. After each session, Tina chaired a Q&A with the speakers, delving deeper into their topic of discussion by answering questions from the audience. If you want to watch Tina’s digest of day one, you can access the video of her closing comments to explore her key takeaways – including the fact that affiliate marketing has become sexy!
We kicked off with a fantastic session filled with future-gazing, predictions, and tips and tricks for the future. It was great to begin the event with a discussion during which the speakers assessed trends and takeaways from the past year and spoke about how these lessons can be implemented in the future. It set the tone for a brilliant event, and the rest of the day continued in the same way…
“Trawling through Facebook is bad enough, I can’t hake any more.” Jason Lowe: “Should have battered him.” Marcus Broom replied to Jason Lowe: “ There’s a time and a plaice for jokes like that.” Antony Begley: “Looks fishy to me.” John Percival: “Sorry, this is not the time or plaice for jokes.” “He was seen heading off in the direction of Tesco’s on a motor-pike.” “Wonder if this will make it into the ‘scales’ of justice.” “I hope the police find him before he gets battered by the shop owner.” Dale Cox: “OH MY COD” Kevin Lloyd: “Robbed the plaice.”
Centro, the automation enterprise technology provider, has acquired AI-driven search advertising and marketing intelligence platform QuanticMind. Centro’s 700 employees will be joining the 30 employees at QuanticMind, as Centro continues with their vision of building a highly comprehensive digital marketing SaaS platform.
Acceleration Partners are continuing their growth into the EMEA region with two new hires. Hayley Lambert has been hired as Account Director, and her new role will see her allocating, managing and developing the account team. She will be working closely with clients to build robust strategies to continuously grow and develop their businesses.
In another move for Acceleration Partners, Stephanie Lester has moved on from Essence, a cross-channel agency, to become the Global Account Director at AP. She will be responsible for client success and satisfaction of programmes within her remit, working closely with teams in each region to drive operational excellence and