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Feb 2023

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Show your data some love

In these straitened times, with inflation still above 10%, every individual and every organisation...

Jan 2023

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How AI is already changing the game

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the advertising industry by providing new ways to...

Dec 2022

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Did your company culture die in the pandemic?

I apologise in advance. This is not a cheery, upbeat, end-of-year style thought piece. I want to...

Nov 2022

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Adapt or die: the female guide to surviving a crisis

Our Mood of the Nation report was a snapshot of a country in crisis: 89% of people living in...

Nov 2022

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Cost of living crisis cuts deep in Scotland

A new ‘Mood of the Nation Report’ published today by The Union has set out to capture how the...

Oct 2022

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Comparative advertising: A knockout blow to the competition or self-inflicted wound?

Every so often we’re treated to the advertising equivalent of sporting trash talk, when brands go...

Sep 2022

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Creativity isn’t an optional extra

Advertising has long been thought of as the canary in the coal mine. 

Sep 2022

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Union hires Adam Swann to lead strategy team

Adam Swann has joined The Union as the agency’s Chief Strategy Officer, after spending 12 years in...

Sep 2022

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Union creates new Traffic Scotland website

The Union has designed and built a major new website for Government agency Transport Scotland. ...

Sep 2022

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The so what of Drupal 10

It took five years to get from Drupal 8 to 9. By the end of 2022, Drupal 10 will be out, and...

Aug 2022

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Unconscious gender biases

Before we’re even born, gender impacts the way we are perceived and treated. 

Aug 2022

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Union appointed to three Scottish Government marketing frameworks

The Union has been successful in gaining a place on three of the new Scottish Government marketing...

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