Influx

There's been lots of work done in the area of human herd behavior, but recently some research was conducted at Oxford University to examine the behavior around the download of Facebook applications. What the research discovered was fascinating; for herd behavior to "kick in", applications need to...

Picking up a copy of USA Today this morning it was easy to be struck by the negativity of the content.- Nelson Mandela is a terrorist- Jet fuel prices set to make air travel a luxury item- Fed rate cut does nothing to change Wall St. sentimentBasically, doom and gloom all around. Then there was...

I am not going to try and match JWT’s list of 80 things, but here are 8 things that I believe will be preoccupying our minds in 08.1.Slowdown?The terrible “R” word is everywhere, with Wall Street looking nervously at every seemingly contradictory figure. It’s clear there are...

Ann Mack and her team of trendspotters at JWT have uncovered 80 things we should be looking out for in 2008. The list includes; women juggling men (a new sport?), eco-fatigue and Prius homes, the rise of Nigerian cinema, skiing in Greenland, etc.JWT's list of 80 Things to Watch in 2008, in...

William Gibson maybe one of the greatest sci-fi writers of his generation, he is also the best friend of planners everywhere. He even wrote a book about them. His new book, Spook Country, looks intersting, as usual. In a recent interview, he gave us planners the perfect quote."There’s a...

A few days ago we did a story on the new capsule hotel brand, YOTEL.  As a follow up to this, we asked Jo Berrington, who runs marketing for the fledgling brand, a couple of quick questions. 1. What social and consumer trends do you feel inspired the creation of Yotel?Consumers - quite...