Star centre forward Brainlabs bags a brace at the UK Agency Awards 2016
"...And it's Brainlabs! And another!" It's award season again, and the sound of a roomful of jaws hitting the floor is still ringing in our ears after Brainlabs managed to pick up two awards at this year's UK Agency Awards. For the second year run...
Buying Programmatic media? Your media agency is (probably) stealing from you.
Programmatic Display is the Wild West of the ad industry. Back in 2014 the ISBA published a pretty damning report on media contracts but it still took a couple of years before the ANA Media Transparency Initiative detailed the commonplace practice o...
The Brainlabs Summer Fete
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, ...
How to implement structured data with JSON-LD
Chances are, you’ve already heard of JSON-LD — you might even be using it already. Kudos to you if that’s the case. If you haven’t heard of it, I’d urgently recommend you to read up on what is becoming an ever-more important part of SEO. I...
Brainlabs CF 5 – 5 Bing FC
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...
What is a Session in Google Analytics?
Sessions are pretty arbitrarily defined, all too easily inflated, and far more complex than most realise. It’s possible for apparent step-changes in Google Analytics reports to have little real-world relevance, and common for reports to show numerous...
Best Large PPC Agency in Europe
Ooh la la - ‘ave you ‘eard the news? Yesterday ten Brainboxes headed under the channel to Paris in the hope of winning a couple of European search awards - and they were not disappointed. By the end of the night, Brainlabs were the gagnants (that’d...
Brainlabs Football Kicks Off
"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 tumbl...
Here’s how to fix the gender pay gap…
Pay women the same as men. It may sound straight forward, but it's not. You might also think that as a mathematician I’d explain the gender pay gap with complex statistical models, normalising for differences in men’s and women’s backgrounds, career ...