Here you’ll find articles about working life at Brainlabs.
How can we tackle the gender pay gap problem? Our Head of People Operations told the BBC & Channel 5 our current approach.
What she told Channel 5 and the BBC was that gender pay is important, but the focus is in the wrong place. Unequal pay is a symptom of the problem, not the cause. The real issue is unconscious […]
Jim Brigden, former iProspect/I Spy chief and founder of The Search Works, has joined Brainlabs as executive chair a week after #deadlineday for an undisclosed fee, to support the UK’s fastest-growing company.
Having worked at the original PPC provider (Overture), Jim will share his veteran wisdom primarily within Brainlabs’ paid search and programmatic services.
On the appointment, Brigden said, “I looked […]
In case you haven’t heard, Google has decided to ignore function words and word order for exact match keywords.
If you just want to know how to fix this travesty, then scroll to the stopgap solution section where I’m sharing a script from Brainlabs (my employer) which will automatically add so-called “close variants” as negative keywords. Yippee! If you also want […]
Yesterday…
Was International Women’s Day with a CTA that felt very Brainlabs:
#BeBoldForChange
We have been bold indeed. And great change has occurred.
Last Year…
I wrote an article about how we were going to fix the gender pay gap. We had just introduced our pay gap tax, a measure praised by the Guardian as an effective solution to a problem that has persisted far […]
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“This is your year, Brainlabs.”
— Me, just now
So, 2016 is over. Before we start singing what we think are the words to Auld Lang Syne, let’s have a look back at a rather eventful year.
This image perhaps sums up the general opinion of 2016 for the UK: lots of famous people and things are sadly no longer around — the toughest […]
Frozen fruit? Check.
Bicycle-powered blenders? Check.
Award-winning digital agency? … Double-check.
Smart, smoothie-loving potential new recruits? TBC.
Yep, Oxford students, we’ve got everything else ready and now all we’re waiting for is you. We’ll be on Radcliffe Square from 8:30AM ready to get blending. We’ve heard the early bird drinks the smoothies so that’s why we’re starting so early, but arts students fear not, […]
At Brainlabs we love both cake and charity — so we were thrilled when the recent Macmillan Coffee Morning gave us the opportunity to combine the two by baking, and then eating, lots of wonderful cake, all while raising money for a fantastic cause.
Resident baking expert Zach led a crack team of intrepid sugar elves, with a kitchen management style akin […]
The inaugural Brainlabs Summer Fete was an event for the Brainlabs history books. From uncertain and tempestuous beginnings, quite literally in the form of a massive cloudburst, was born an unforgettable and, importantly, sun-blessed party. Clients, Brainboxes, and friends enjoyed a plethora of activities including a bouncy castle, sumo suits, musical and magical entertainment, all alongside some fairly questionable facepaint. […]
July 4th
Bing FC vs Brainlabs CF
Market Road Stadium
Great, great goals. Masterful footwork. Defence-splitting passes, tricks and flicks, crunching challenges and scything runs down the wing.
Anyone hoping to see the above at the first Brainlabs vs Bing football match were sorely disappointed, but everyone agreed that teamwork and football were the real winners. As well as biscuits and Doritos. The final […]
“It’s Anthony Collias….Oh my goodness, that must be a foul from Olivia Symington! That’s an utter disgrace! No – they play on! Collias won’t be walking again any time soon…It falls to Bernstein-Newman, he bulldozes past a hapless Barber who tumbles to the ground in tears, he slips it into Teeney who slide-tackles it over to Gyi, evading Akhurst’s shiny […]