by Dean Carroll | Mar 22, 2019 | Becca Ratcliffe, Features, Jack Morton, My media habits, Netflix, Roma, Spotify
What are your must-read news sources you can’t live without on a daily basis, and why are those particular media titles so important to you? “BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Times give me a good handle on what’s happening in the UK and around the world....
by Dean Carroll | Mar 21, 2019 | Alibaba, Amazon, ecommerce, Lazada, News
Alibaba-owned online shopping platform Lazada has declared its intention to own the ecommerce space and supply chain in South East Asia, in the same way as Amazon does in America. The firm, which started under Rocket Internet in 2012 before being bought by Alibaba in...
by Dean Carroll | Mar 21, 2019 | BuzzFeed, News, The Guardian, VICE
Some of the commercial woes faced by companies like Vice and Buzzfeed may be because they started to believe their own hype, the boss of The Guardian has said, as he revealed his own company is now “out of danger”. Speaking at the Advertising Week Europe conference in...
by Dean Carroll | Mar 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
A 2017 ad for Procter & Gamble brand Vicks tells the story of an orphaned girl who is adopted by a transgender woman. Image: Still from Vicks’ Generations of Care video In today’s consumption-driven yet increasingly conscious world, you can walk into a...
by Dean Carroll | Mar 20, 2019 | Dr Mumbo, Nas Daily, Poo water, Singapore
Those of you who were paying attention may remember that Dr Mumbo wrote about the infectiously positive travel blogger Nuseir Yassin – or ‘Nas Daily’ for the millennials among you – last September. Some loved the Arab-Israeli’s video where he deemed Singapore to be...
