Flamingo features on the Warc blog where some of the themes, surrounding how we think about the future from our latest Big Ideas Breakfast, are discussed.
Click Read the Article (above) to see the full feature on the Warc website.
A recent blog post written by Gareth Evans and Mai Kataoka, Flamingo Tokyo, on reading and book culture, has been reposted on the blog of publishing company IB Tauris.
Click Read the Article (above) to see the full blog post on the IB Tauris blog website.
Research Magazine writes about our latest Big Ideas Breakfast and discusses some of the ideas surrounding the theme: Addiction to Prediction
Click Read the Article (above) to see the feature on the Research Live website.
On Thursday 10th May at 6.30pm we'll be gathering at Fallon to listen to the second Noisy thinking debate and to hear three top speakers debate the contribution Planning makes to business.
We will hear from Andy Fennel, CMO of Diageo, Mark Lund, former CEO of the COI and Partner at creative agency, thisisnow, and Alison Hardy, owner of Headstrong Thinking and former Director of Marketing Service at Doctor Foster.
Please click 'Read the Article' (above) to find out more on the APG website.
Flamingo’s mobile community for Stylist has been shortlisted for an annual FIPP media industry award. The Awards reward the best research published in 2011 that promotes the use of magazine media as an advertising medium anywhere in the world. Winners will be announced at the FIPP Research Forum on 29th May 2012.
Please click 'Read the Article' (above) to see the full shortlist on the FIPP website.
Daniel Franklin, Executive Editor of The Economist (and Editor of its annual publication, The World In..), will join Flamingo's Josephine Shaw and Adam Chmielowski for our next Big Ideas Breakfast on Tuesday, 1st May 2012, 8.30am to 11am.
The event will be taking place in Haberdashers' Hall, our new Big Ideas Breakfast venue.
Haberdashers' Hall is owned by The Haberdashers' Company, one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies in the City of London. It is in West Smithfield, five minutes' walk from Barbican, Farringdon and St Paul's tube stations.
Flamingo's pioneering mobile community research with Stylist magazine has been shortlisted for a MarketingWeek Engage Award, in the Market Research category. Please click 'Read the Article' (above) to see the full shortlist on the Engage Awards website.
Flamingo's Tracey Osunde has written a piece for the MRS Careers website, on what it's like to work in the world of insight and brand consultancy. Please click 'Read the Article' (above) to read the feature on MRS.org.uk.
Flamingo's Group Strategy Director, Jackie Hughes, shares her thoughts in Brand Republic. Speaking on how people, culture and brands respond to crisis. Please click 'Read the Article' (above) to see the full story.
The article follows on from Jackie's presentation at our February 2012 Big Ideas Breakfast, The new language of consumerism.
Flamingo were featured on the industry portal, Media & Marketing Global, following the March 2012 Big Ideas Breakfast in London, featuring Charles Leadbeater and Flamingo's Jackie Hughes.
Research Magazine has written about some of the ideas discussed by Charles Leadbeater and Jackie Hughes at our recent Big Ideas Breakfast in London in May 212.
Click Read the Article (above) to see the feature on the Research Magazine website.
Flamingo featured at number 41 in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2012. We also won one of only a handful of ‘Special Awards’ on offer: the Best Training And Development award. The judges made special mention of our new Culture Days initiative, which invites Flamingos to set aside time to take part in cultural visits and activities during working hours.
This is the second year running Flamingo has been included in the Top 100. This year we jumped 42 places in the rankings, after entering at number 83 in 2011. Following a company-wide staff survey, the judges scored us especially highly on Leadership and Staff Satisfaction. They also highlighted our secondment programme, which gives Flamingos the opportunity to spend time on placements in other offices around the group in London, New York, Shanghai Singapore and Tokyo.
Anniki Sommerville, Head of Talent at Flamingo, said:
"We are delighted to be named one of the top 50 small companies to work for in the UK, and to have won the Special Award for our training and development work. The Flamingo brand positioning is 'Through Culture to Big Ideas', and we spend a great deal of time and energy helping everyone throughout the company truly live the company's ethos. Our budget allocation for foreign language courses, time allocation for Flamingos to visit cultural exhibitions and events, as well as our global secondment opportunities to our offices in Asia and the USA, all ensure that every Flamingo has a personal development plan to build their expertise in people, cultures and brands all over the world.”
The award was collected by Kirsty Fuller, Maggie Collier, Anniki Sommerville and Adam Hendrick (all pictured)
Click Read The Article (above) to see the full report on the Sunday Times website.
Flamingo are sponsoring the APG’s Noisy Thinking series of events in London, which kicked off at the Wellcome Trust on Tues 6th March 2012.
The first event in the series took the theme, ‘How Influential Are Planners, And How Influential Should They Be?’, and featured Adam Morgan of eatbigfish, Twentieth Century Fox Managing Director, Cameron Saunders, and Saatchi & Saatchi Strategy Director, Richard Huntington.
APG’s Sarah Newman, said:
“APG Noisy Thinking is a six-part series where we invite the compelling thinkers of our time to be as vocal, controversial and imaginative as possible, and help us shape a visionary agenda for Planning for the next five years"
Adam Chmielowski, Flamingo Group Head of Foresight & Trends, said:
“Flamingo are proud to be sponsoring APG Noisy Thinking, and we are excited to be part of the debate around building brands which make a true connection with people.”
The next Noisy Thinking event is called, ‘Business Answers Back’, and will take place in mid-April. Details will be announced shortly.
The third event is entitled, 'Planning On The World Stage', and is set for end of May. The event will be headlined by Flamingo Group Strategy Director, Jackie Hughes, and will feature other speakers, to be announced soon. Three further events will take place later in the summer.
You can read more about APG Noisy Thinking on the APG website by clicking Read the Article (above).
The APG is a not-for-profit organisation and is the UK's only membership organisation for planners and strategists in communication agencies. APG's purpose is to inspire and develop the skills of planners, and the planning discipline as a whole through training, networking and inspirational events.
Flamingo was named Runner Up in the Best Place to Work category at the MRS Research Awards 2011. We were also a Finalist for the Best Agency award.
Flamingo previously won Best Agency in 2009, 2006 and 2003, and we were shortlisted for Best Place to Work in 2010 and 2009.
Click Read the Article (above) where you can see the full list of Winners and Finalists on the MRS website, along with videos and photos from the awards ceremony.
Flamingo’s client at Stylist magazine talks about mobile insight communities.
The WARC.com Editor, Carlos Grande, reports on September 2011’s Big Ideas Breakfast, on Marketing to Earth’s New Urban Majority.
Flamingo Group Head of Trends & Foresight Adam Chmielowski published an opinion piece on WARC.com, discussing new trends in motherhood and advising brands on how to approach marketing to mums in light of the new archetype we explored at the Flamingo Big Ideas Breakfast.
Flamingo Co-CEO, Kirsty Fuller, was interviewed by the industry magazine and e-newsletter, Contagious, on marketing to mothers.
Flamingo Co-CEO, Kirsty Fuller, speaks with industry portal Cream Global about the changing nature of marketing to mothers.
Contagious published an event report on February’s Big Ideas Breakfast, The Architecture of Happiness.