Earlier this month I did a webinar for the lovely people at the World Advertising Research Council about attention, rounding out a half year of touring my book Paid Attention, which has seen the talk I give evolve considerably, as the conversations have evolved around attention and ad blocking.  You can watch it on the site…

This is a special edition of Ex Libris since it mostly features books we love from friends of ours. [Previous editions featuring lots of books I think you should read are here, here and here] They were all featured in our newsletter this week – and if you subscribe THIS WEEK you will be entered…

I wrote a piece for The Guardian about the fragmentation of strategy problem I explored in my book, and thought I'd coined a new appropriation for the solution, which I called "Full Stack Strategy". In essence, strategy is perforce holistic, and the communication industry's fragmentation into discipline specific agencies works against that:  All these agencies…

The nice people at Campaign emailed me to ask me if I would write something about the VW scandal in relation to the industry and brands.  So I did. 

Back in May we spoke at the HOW DESIGN LIVE conference in Chicago [which was excellent, btw, you can check out some highlights here and some quotes here]  and some lovely people from Webydo asked to interview us.  We said yes, and the video is above – they call us "The Bonnie & Clyde of the…

Last night I gave a talk at Google for the APG and, for reasons I can't quite remember, I asked the audience of planners if they listened to Radiolab – and only 2 people raised their hands. SO – here is a PSA for the UK and especially for planners, because Radiolab is planner crack:…

Student Design Award Winner – Curiosity: Exploration and Discovery  Our rather brilliant and lovely mate Scott sent me this delightful little film – it won a student design award and very much aligns with how we think at Genius Steals. To whit, we are called Genius Steals because it's something we believe and our beliefs…

So yeah we live in the age where everyone is a brand and branding themselves hard all the time and that. But just as we try to rehabilitate companies to speak less like jargon infected corporate psychopaths, we have to be careful about not letting vice become verse.  Or – here's a funny video!  Here's…

Faris Yakob – Genius Steals – PSFK 2015 Update from PSFK on Vimeo.  I did a 6 minute talk at the PSFK NYC Conference. The theme was Live, Work, Play Better so I told the story of how I've been trying to optimize those aspects of my life and why you shouldn't take that, or anyone's…

Henry very kindly interviewed me for his blog about Paid Attention. Part 1 and Part 2 are up so far.  Here is one question to whet your appetite to click through – I'm really happy with it and people seem to be enjoying it.  You have a very interesting section in the book about the…