Speaking at SES London

It’s nearly February, so that must mean it’s not long until the Search Engine Strategies conference hits London. This year it’s 15th-19th February at the Business Design Centre in Islington (as you can tell from the enormous graphic at the foot of this post).
I’m speaking on Tuesday 16th on the keynote “State of the [...]

Efficient Frontier Search Theatre @ ad:tech London

It’s ad:tech London in a couple of weeks (22-23 September) and I’m very excited about the Efficient Frontier Search Theatre. This year at ad:tech we’ve decided to try something a little different, so we’re putting on an array of sessions about different aspects search.
There are 7 free sessions each day, and we’ve timed them [...]

IAB Engage for Search

I spoke yesterday at the IAB Engage for Search event at the CBI conference centre in Centre Point. It was a very enjoyable morning and there’s a great write up on the IAB site. There’s also some good photos on Flickr.
On a personal note I can say the lunch afterwards was excellent. At [...]

Search Engine Strategies London

This week I’m speaking at Search Engine Strategies London. I’m on two panels:

Search Industry Update: A look at what the recent trends are in paid search. I’ll be discussing the numbers from EF’s latest quarterly spend report. (Tuesday at 11am).
Ads in a Quality Score World: I’ll go through what makes up Quality Score, [...]

First Rule of Winning Business: Turn Up

When WPP announced last year that it was acquiring 24/7 Realmedia for $649m, we were all a little surprised.  Since then, there's been plenty of speculation of how exactly WPP is going to place 24/7 within its operating group.
Let's hope the 24/7 stand at this week's Online Marketing Show is no indicator of future plans. [...]

Pressing the flesh at trade shows

I was at EyeforTravel.com’s Travel Distribution Summit this week at the Business Design Centre in Islington. I noticed a new type of exhibitor there that I fear will hit us from behind: masseuses. The biggest stand by far belonged to some massage company. At Internet World last month there must have been [...]

Internet World

I spent part of last week at Internet World, a three day event at Earls Court Exhibition Centre. More accurately it was at ‘Earls Court 2′, a name entirely without imagination. Surely ‘Earls Court: The Reckoning’ or ‘Earls Court Strikes Back’ would have given it a bit more umph. Anyway, it is a [...]