Serious Social 17/10/2017

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Keeping in line with keeping things fresh at IF, we’re giving 60 Second Social a shake-up. It’s now called Serious Social. Sometimes, there’s just too much news to fit into sixty seconds.

The second tweak to our news format is that we’re going to be interviewing members of the team to talk about the subjects of their blogs. You can read them, or hear us discuss them, straight from the expert’s mouth.

This week Sophie, one of our Account Execs, and Fabian, an Account Director, will respectively be looking at emoji inspired music playlists, and Facebook’s game-plan for VR, helmed by our MD, Colin Jacobs.

 

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