Candid by Innovate Comms

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we dive into one of the big pitfalls of innovation marketing - when it obsesses over what the tech does before anyone understands why they should care. We dissect the causes, why it’s a problem and how to navigate to avoid it with some juicy tidbits from our own experiences.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight.6G development is in full flow and one of the things that comes through loud and clear - from both industry and academia - is the need to learn the lessons from 5G. This month we delve into our learnings from countless 5G innovation projects over the years and what it means for 6G comms.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. This month we’re joined by telco industry stalwart, Peter Marshall, to devise the perfect marriage between setting commercial and product or service strategies and marketing and communications.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we’re joined by Kate Baker from Zscaler to tackle the elusive integrated campaign. We cover everything from the power of great creative, to psychological safety between clients and agencies, to taking risks to processes.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. This month we are joined by Zlatka Larsen, a wonderful generalist marketer currently working with Autodesk, to tackle the topic of usable value propositions – what they are, why we need them and how we stop people from shoving them in a digital drawer and never using them properly.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. This month we’re joined by another of the IC collective, Daniella Graham Stollery, our strategy director, to get candid about how B2B tech can navigate the AI goldrush and avoid AI-washing with their comms.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. This month, we’re joined by coaching extraordinaire and B2B tech marketing veteran, Jackie Nixon, to talk about helping technical experts communicate the highly technical to lay audiences. A new member of our collective, Jackie has joined forces with us to offer a new suite of comms training courses and coaching for engineering and academic teams, with the goal of translating innovation into understandable value.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we’re joined by the ‘Toms’ as we callthem – two very talented film directors and videographers in our collective who specialise in crafting beautiful commercial films. We talk about what we want to ban from corporate film, some of our most memorable shoots and trends like AI (of course) in film making. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. This month, we’re reflecting on quite a few conversationswe’ve had recently about how much value should be or is attributed to creativity, alongside whether marketing should a role in strategically guiding an organisation (spoiler: obviously).⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we’re joined by a true events queen and good friend Mary Vivier as we lift the dust ruffle on what makes an event successful and how we manage stakeholders, as well as air some of our juicier grievances and all the things that can go wrong.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explorethe key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. This month we’re delving into the innovation ecosystem, how to engage all audiences effectively and particularly the importance of ensuring that innovation benefits everyone.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight.We’re starting our new fiscal and series with a slightly different type of episode. Tune in for a chinwag about a topic which is very dear to our hearts: mental health and specifically mental health across the PR, marketing and communications sector. In this episode, we share the findings of brand-new research into the state of mental health in our industry conducted by Coleman Parkes and commissioned by State of Us, a mental health network we founded in 2022 with our good friend Katie de Cozar.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight.In this episode, we’re joined by Jo Bromilow, Director ofSocial & Influencer at MSL to demystify the world of influencers and talk about how employee engagement and advocacy programmes can take your brand to the next level.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight.In this episode, we’re joined by Peter Shearman, Industry Specialist Advisor at Purple Transform and ex-head of UKI Innovation at Cisco, to talk about all things co-innovation after many years of building brands and running marketing campaigns for Peter’s projects. Consortium comms isn’t easy and in this episode, we talk about the secrets to success that we’ve uncovered by working with Peter and others through Innovate Comms’ history.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we join Amanda Kamin CMO at Digital Catapult for a fireside chat about building effective marketing teams, managing stakeholders and the ins and outs of growing an agency at her Christmas town hall. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we’re joined by one of the longest standing members of the Innovate Comms collective, Will Pritchard, a senior copywriter and producer, to discuss the difference between a good sentence and a great one, as well as name and shame some of the most awful copy cliches out there. ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we’re joined by Emma Taylor, head of comms at Redgate Software, to dissect the agency client dynamic and find the silver bullet for a positive and effective relationship. ⁠⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we are joined by Nicky Regazzoni and George Blizzard from the PR Network – the OGs of virtual agencies – to unpack why this operating model is great for agencies, clients and the industry as a whole. ⁠⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we cover the use of AI in marketing and imagery inspired by Elton John's progressive exhibit at the V&A. ⁠https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode, we explore the dark funnel and why we don’t talk about it – or use it - enough in marketing. https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/⁠

Welcome to Candid. In this content series, we'll explore the key topics keeping us and our clients up at night. We'll challenge, we'll debate, we'll connect the dots, and we'll always tell it to you straight. In this episode we're starting with an interesting question for us at Innovate Comms. Does creativity have to come at the price of strategy or ROI? https://www.innovatecomms.co.uk/