GUEST  Semiotician Dr. Rachel Lawes, founder of Lawes Consulting

 TOPICS  Launch of branded communities within MySpace; Researching social communities; Internet key to promoting movies; Advertising blending into content; Semiotics explained; Lawes Consulting breaking into new sectors

 NOTABLE MENTIONS  Halifax Bank, HBOS, Lynx, MTV, MySpace, Snakes on a Plane, Spring Research, Stephen Phillips

Music Brother Love and Slackstring from the PMN

Series:Weekly

Our Cranky Gang turns that old British pastime of whinging into an artform. But rather than simply moaning about the ills of our industry, the gang comes up with a plan. Our very own ‘A’ team…

 BEWARE  Crankiness level is high

 STARRING 

• Ian Wright, OTX Europe
• John Kearon, BrainJuicer
• Olaf Willoughby, The Willoughby Partnership
• Tas Tasgal, POV
• Mark Whiting, Moët Hennessy (Special guest)

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 EXCLUSIVE  In the final ESOMAR preview podcast, John Kearon of BrainJuicer convenes a roundtable with two senior clientside researchers and three from the supply-side, to discuss ways to inject entrepreneurism into the industry and improve the innovation, creativity, relevance and vibrancy of research

 STARRING 

• Alistair Millar, Unilever
• Jem Fawcus, Firefish
• Andy Bloor, Firefish
• John Jennick, Egg.com
• Gary Schwartz, FIRM
• John Kearon, Chief Juicer, BrainJuicer (Host)

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