McDonald's secured the prestigious Grand Prix at the 2012 Marketing Society Awards for Excellence, held on Monday, for the role marketing has played in overhauling its UK business since 2006.
What do experts from 11 companies think will be the next big thing(s) in digital?
Read and listen to what they have to say in essays and short films (via the links below) and see what happened when we brought them all together for a roundtable lunch debate.
Videos produced by Sarah Johnson
25 Jun 2010
| by Matt Dyke and Kevin Sutherland, AnalogFolk
Social technologies will give brands unprecedented access to groups of connected web users
25 Jun 2010
| by Martin Bailie, glue Isobar
Talk about 'digital' and channel-based silos should be things of the past. Organisations need to be structured around what's real, not what's easy
25 Jun 2010
| by Damian Ferrar and Katie Streten, Imagination
There are growing opportunities to link physical interactive experiences with mobile networks
25 Jun 2010
| by Giles Hedger and Marc Giusti, Leo Burnett
Clients need agencies that can see the broadest answers to problems
25 Jun 2010
| by Annette King and Emma de la Fosse, OgilvyOne London
Imagine how powerful the reams of data that digital marketing generates could be if made available to all in one location. If only such a place existed
25 Jun 2010
| by Jim Moffatt and James Temple, R/GA London
Controlling communications used to mean controlling the agenda until digital changed all that and super-connected citizens are dictating things
25 Jun 2010
| by Adam Graham and Zaid Al-Zaidy, Saint@RKCR/Y&R
You don't need megabucks to succeed, you just have to be clear about what you want people to do and make sure the conditions are right
25 Jun 2010
| by Richard Baker, Howard Scott and Mark Johnson, Sequence
Remind yourself of your brand fundamentals before getting swept along by the social media tide