07 January 2021
Do brands still trust their agencies? Senior marketing leaders invited by CreativeRace to discuss agency relationships at roundtable
by David Prior
CMOs and senior marketing leaders are invited to attend a roundtable discussion led by CreativeRace that will ask a key question: Do brands still trust their agencies?
Last year, the Leeds agency commissioned YouGov to survey over 1,000 CMOs and Heads of Marketing in a bid to understand more about the challenges and issues CMOs were facing.
The results were surprising, highlighting a need for agencies to dig deeper into understanding what clients really want from their agencies, and how these relationships can be improved.
PCR Dec/Jan 21 Retail analysis: 2020’s COVID crisis transitions into 2021’s recovery phase
6th January 2021
Nobody could have predicted what 2020 held in store. A year depicted by yesteryear’s sci-fi novels as the epitome of the future, but having now reached that year and come out the other side into 2021, it’s time for the channel to reflect on the lessons learned and grow stronger in the wake of the pandemic, as Michelle Winny finds out.
Turning to the Channel, Target Components, Scott Frankling says: “It’s fair to say that 2020 packed a few surprises, not least for the huge number of people who found themselves working from home. Doing the same job but often without the level of technology they’ve been used to at work, led to a huge demand for the devices needed to turn spare rooms, kitchens and living rooms into makeshift and part-time office spaces.”
Australian Open quad wheelchair field expanded to eight players Sunday, 3 January 2021
Organisers of the Australian Open have doubled the quad wheelchair field for this year s tournament, with eight of the world s top nine players set to compete.
The field was only four players deep in previous years.
Wheelchair tennis events are due to take place from February 14 to 17 in Melbourne, after the first Grand Slam of the year was delayed because of the coronavrius pandemic.
The quad draw is headlined by world number one and home favourite Dylan Alcott, who is seeking to win a seventh consecutive Australian Open singles title.
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VICTORIA It was April 1993. The setting, the Washington state capital of Olympia. Premier Mike Harcourt met Washington Gov. Mike Lowry to discuss a matter as contentious as it was unsavoury.
“The B.C. capital believes in using an international waterway as its toilet,” in the memorable words of Joel Connelly, columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Connelly, a formidable media voice on both sides of the border, had been raising a stink about Victoria’s long-standing practice of dumping raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.