Twickenham Stadium will be the flagship venue for a new golf tour arriving in the UK this summer. Through a collaboration with US based golf company, Stadium Golf Tour, sports marketing agency Maverick Sports + Entertainment | The sponsorship experts, and the stadium, a new tour has been created that affords golfers the chance to play in some of the most iconic stadia in the world, including now, the home of England Rugby.

From green-washing to the other extreme, navigating how to communicate sustainability seems to be a minefield even for the savviest of marketers. So which brands are trying to get it right? Let’s explore the difficult area of environmental marketing, and cover everything from green-washing, to green-hushing and what brands really need to do, green-acting. 

REPUTATION by Maverick, a PR and Crisis Management company has been formed by The Maverick Group’s founder Carron Edmonds, a leading expert in the advertising and marketing world and Laura Slater, the global go to for crisis and reputation management. Together they have formed a team of senior specialists representing each field across corporate, consumer, celebrity, sports and entertainment.

Pulsify, the podcast brought to you by Pulse, is back with a new episode. The aim of the podcast is to generate a better understanding of the role of research and help place it at the heart of all client projects.

I had a bit of an epiphany recently as I lay on my physiotherapist’s bench. Frustrated by my poor injured knees, thanks to years of long distance running, I moaned to Nuno (he’s Portuguese) that I hate having “old man’s knees”. “Don’t be ridiculous”, said Nuno, “you have runner’s knees”.

Stadium Golf Tour provides a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience world famous stadiums like never before. Stadium Golf Tour (SGT) transforms sports venues into uniquely designed 9-hole golf courses. Whether it’s teeing off from high in the upper tiers or walking through an exhibit of the great moments in the stadium’s history, Stadium Golf Tour creates an experience like no other.

A big fat sparkly diamond ring to mark your engagement? You can thank marketers for that. Unwrapping a pair of argyle socks or pungent cologne for Father’s Day? You can thank marketers for that too. The online shopping mayhem of Black Friday? Yup, you guessed it – marketers at work!

Yes, I have been there. Four years client-side after a long career in creative agencies really opened my eyes to a world that I thought I knew. Turns out I really didn’t know much of anything at all. Becoming a client was an eye-opener, I can tell you, and not always in the ways I’d expected.

Are you happy in your job? It seems a lot of us aren’t. In the wake of the pandemic, 40% of employees say they’re likely to leave their role in the next three to six months.  While the reasons for leaving a role are numerous, there’s no doubt that being unsatisfied at work can be a key contributor to looking for that elusive greener grass.