Tech as a Tool, Culture as a Compass
Micro‑scenes, meme logic, and IRL moments shape youth marketing. Tech and AI aren’t the headline for these audiences, it's just a tool. Usefulness and participation, those are the areas to win. Louise Millar of Seed champions collaborative, human‑led designed experiences with results that travel.
The Online World of Analogue Living
We’ve become used to sharing everything online, but now people are finding enjoyment of experiences without an audience. Annie Harte explores the resurgence of analogue culture and what it could teach brands about creating spaces not just for performance.
Annie Harte
Great Brands Need Cultural Curiosity
Long before he was building brands, Squarespace’s Nate Skinner was studying culture through record sleeves and the sprawling web of Britpop‑era music journalism – a habit he now credits with proving that cultural curiosity, more than anything else, is what helps brands find their audience.
Hannah Bowler
Guiding Agencies With Values
A lot of company values are worth no more than the paper they’re written on. But many agency leaders I spoke to during the first season of Uncut shared with me their guiding principles, which was often a motto they saw as the agency’s operating instructions.
Alex Zeevalkink
The New Media Hire: Why Agencies Now Want Mathematicians, Not Marketers
Media buying has become a numbers game. Now some agencies are tearing up the hiring playbook and recruiting mathematicians, economists and computer scientists over advertising graduates, and betting that curiosity beats a marketing CV.
Hannah Bowler