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Exclusive : 'In Her Shoes' - our first film by Contented Brands features Camilla Honey of JFDI

'In Her Shoes' a film by Contented Brands from Contented Brands on Vimeo.

Our first exclusive film by Contented Brands features Camilla Honey of JFDI

Apparently, almost half of women who work in the marketing industry have reported sexism at some point. According to a recent marketing study by Drum

Here is the first video (In Her Shoes) of a series which will be seen in theMarketingblog over the next few months. In these on-line interviews, with high profile women within the marketing industry, our interviewees will be asked if they feel ‘sexism in the workplace’ has held them back’?  

These films will feature women who are business owners, who head up brands and who also work for large agencies.

If this series of videos captures your imagination talk with us about potential sponsorship. 

Call Alex Gulland on 07765 404 404 or Will Corry 01784 434 412

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BlackBerry's UK user base plummets to below 1 million

UK smartphone users shun BlackBerry

eMarketer’s latest forecast of mobile phone usage in the UK paints a very bleak picture for BlackBerry, as the number of UK consumers using the operating system will decline dramatically this year and dip below 1 million users. 

While BlackBerry’s market share has been slipping for several years now, eMarketer’s latest figures indicate that it now has as few as 700,000 users in the UK, with this number expected to fall to 400,000 by 2017.

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Events : 10 predictions for the future of marketing - Fisicusm, Rich Design & Creative, Orchestration ... / dmg::events Japan

 

Tokyo,  January 2015: Technology has always changed how marketing works. What is current will no longer be trending in the future. 

So what will be the next? Here is a prediction created by ad:tech, and supervised by winners of ad:tech tokyo 2015 Attendees Choice Award: Speakers, Daisuke Tomozawa and Mike Homma.

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