Insights

Research and thinking for brands competing for household decisions.

Original audience intelligence, practical campaign thinking and selected Double W news. The useful stuff, organised around the decisions brands need to influence.

A light switch representing a household changing utility providerUtility marketing

How utility brands can win switchers in 2027

A practical framework for turning household dissatisfaction into confident customer acquisition.

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A broadband router with one button representing One Touch SwitchBroadband acquisition

Broadband acquisition after One Touch Switch

Why easier switching makes a distinctive, confidence-building campaign more important, not less.

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A connected home and smart energy technologies arranged around a clockEnergy marketing

How to market smart energy tariffs in 2027

Turn EV charging, heat pumps and flexible energy into a household benefit people can understand and choose.

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A multigenerational household representing people aged 30 to 60Audience

Gen Z matters for trends. The 30–60 audience matters for spend.

Why brands should look beyond the loudest demographic when planning campaigns around household spending.

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Television representing seventy years of TV advertisingTV creative

70 years of TV advertising

Six commercials that still show what memorable, culturally resonant creative can achieve.

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Behind the scenes on the Lebara television commercial shootProduction

One shoot. Every format.

How Lebara’s Hero+ production was designed for TV, social and digital from the first script.

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Agency team collaborating on campaign deliveryAgency partners

Scaling smarter with a trusted agency partner

How agencies can add senior strategy, creative, production and media capability on a project or white-label basis.

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A theatre curtain representing the machinery behind digital advertisingDigital effectiveness

Don’t be Oz. Be Dorothy.

Why strong creative still needs clean tracking, attribution and advertising infrastructure behind it.

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Now is not the time to cry: Laurence Bray on Oasis and men’s mental healthOpinion

Now is not the time to cry, now’s the time to find out why

Laurence Bray on how Oasis gave a generation of British men an emotional outlet.

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Students arriving at university during freshers weekHigher education

University choice is a household decision

Why always-on higher-education marketing must reach students and the families helping them decide and pay.

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A collective, not a hierarchy: the Double W agency modelAgency model

Not your typical agency: the collective model

Why growing brands get more from a senior collective than a network agency setup.

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Restaurant table prepared for a hospitality bookingHospitality

Turning hospitality data into household demand

How better attribution helped a restaurant group understand the occasions, offers and messages that drove bookings.

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel beside the launching chains of the Great EasternCreative perspective

Creative heroes: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Why bold ideas, useful design and work that connects people still matter to modern campaign creativity.

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Director Conor Boru on a film productionCreative perspective

Send the elevator back down

Conor Boru on cinematic advertising, production technology, mentorship and making space for new voices.

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