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Dec 8, 2020
3 min

Do we control the algorithm or does it control us?

Instagram’s algorithm: why do I see what I see on Instagram? Algorithms have become as much a part of our lives as our daily Gin O’Clock...

Dec 7, 2020
3 min

What are algorithms?

What are algorithms? Algorithms. If it weren’t for COVID, they’d be claiming “most disliked” awards in the end of year round-ups....

Oct 29, 2020
2 min

The Internet’s worst kept organic social secret

Sarah’s back to tell us why Giphy is the Gif that keeps on giving. It’s been three months since we first told you about the world’s best...

Oct 6, 2020
2 min

What can marketers learn from lockdown V1?

“Now is the winter of our discontent…” The late Fifteenth century had many troubles, and Richard III’s reign certainly didn’t end in...

Jun 16, 2020
3 min

Getting GIPHY with it

Sarah is a big fan of GIFs and Stickers. This is why you should be too. GIFs have come a long way since their humble beginnings back in...

Mar 27, 2020
2 min

Bored at home and looking for a lockdown hobby? TikTok might just have the answer…

Alice is here for you, as is TikTok. It’s a tough time right now. You don’t need us to tell you that. And with the constant streams of...

Mar 9, 2020
3 min

Shut the front door, data is great

As a Senior Consultant at OneFifty, Anne-Catherine looks at patterns of data and decision frameworks every day. So, when it comes to...

Feb 11, 2020
2 min

Would you like a sports analogy with that?

Here at OneFifty, we (I say we, but I mean Alex Pearmain), love a sports analogy/metaphor. Big client meeting? That’s my Game 7 in the...

Jan 30, 2020
5 min

Instagram in 2019: Did it change, or did we?

Another year and there are even more changes in how we’re using Instagram. The app remains, at its core, about image sharing but with...

Jan 27, 2020
2 min

Why I will always love Facebook. Don’t at me.

Facebook. It gets some flack. So here are the musings of one of our Senior Consultant’s, Becki, to remind us why it’s not so bad. TikTok...

Jul 30, 2019
4 min

Bye bye pen and paper. Hello Todoist.

We’ve built OneFifty on a small number of tools, which help us be more effective and mirrors the way we need to work. One of our latest...

Jul 5, 2019
2 min

Startups 100 2019: We’re on the list again!

We’re feeling hot, hot hot. And it’s not the fact it’s currently 27 degrees outside (although that is contributing). You might remember...

Jul 1, 2019
3 min

Data: Lost in translation

We all too often believe in data’s power of indisputable “truth”, however we fail to ask key questions of the data analysis, which leads...

May 14, 2019
3 min

Podcasts to get you through the day – from Sarah

There are many things that I’m proud of contributing to at OneFifty; outstanding creative campaigns, stellar client service… but most of...

Jul 26, 2018
4 min

Case Study: Advance Together, a new wave of politics

Advance Together was set up in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, with the aim of creating a political party for people, not politicians....

Jun 5, 2018
1 min

The UK’s most popular internship, or how to get 10k intern applications

We’ve just had our 10,000th applicant for our internship. Based on data from the main graduate jobs platforms, this was 2017’s most...

May 22, 2018
2 min

#Startups100: OneFifty comes in at #54

Winning! We’ve had just over two years of using data and models of human behaviour to drive purposeful digital interactions with the...

Dec 13, 2017
2 min

Twitter Promote: a review of an innovative social advertising product

Twitter Promote launched into beta recently. Whilst we don’t usually review social ad products, this caught our eye. It will also rarely...

Sep 6, 2017
3 min

A year living social trends: September is the Life Reset

Another month, another trend. Here at OneFifty, we’re continuing to live social trends, with veganism, gin, outdoor cinema, and craft...

Aug 30, 2017
5 min

Will Kemble-Clarkson, Ctrl-Shift: GDPR is an opportunity for growth

GDPR is a hot topic right now. We have guest blogger Will Kemble-Clarkson, from business consultants Ctrl-Shift, to tell you the five...