Adland is a cosy club for some; why do so many want to leave?

Welcome to Best of the Week, written in beautiful, chilly Sisters Beach. It’s good to be home in Tasmania for the rest of the winter.

Making space – the ACA carrot or Woolley’s stick?

One of the challenges of writing about the marketing industry is finding an acceptable point on the spectrum between naivety and cynicism.

It’s an industry the demands scepticism to write about properly. Most of the articles from over the years that I wish I could rewrite have been where I was insufficiently sceptical and people got free passes they did not deserve. But to continue to work in the industry without being driven mad, you also need to find ways to love it, and luckily there are many.

The last few days have seen me seesawing between cynicism and scepticism about the establishment’s reaction towards adland’s cultural problems.