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Podcast: Sweathead, A Strategy Podcast
Episode: What's On Strategists' Minds? - James Lees & Arthur Perez
Description: Group Think is a London-based strategy community that gets people together to think, drink, and discuss. They have 500+ members.
Here's an interview with James Lees (strategist at Sword and Stone) and Arthur Perez (Head of marketing and brand strategy at Depop) from Group Think in which I share 9 or 10 generalizations of things I've been hearing to see how London feels about planning.
Points I ask them to consider include:
1. Not many agencies are clear on why they exist
2. "Advertising" has become a dirty word
3. "Going upstream" - is it really a thing?
4. The strategy career is amazing but many agencies...