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Marketing turned into a spreadsheet problem somewhere in the last decade, and I think that's the actual crisis, not shrinking attention spans, not tighter budgets. Most companies running marketing today are optimising an equation instead of building a brand. But in 2026, experiential marketing spend has overtook digital advertising spend for the first time. I don't think that's a coincidence. I think it's the market quietly admitting the equation has stopped working. Why isn'

CTRL Digital is a marketing studio and consultancy for consumer brands. We offer three services: branding, content and social media management, and marketing consultancy, and we deliver all three the same way, from inside a brand's own team, not as an outsourced function run from the outside. What services does we offer? Three: branding, content and social media management, and marketing consultancy for consumer brands. Plenty of agencies offer some combination of the same th

You don't remember campaigns. You remember moments. A month after the 2026 World Cup ended, I can tell you exactly what Levi's did, and I can also tell you, if I think about it, roughly what Coca-Cola, Adidas, and Visa ran. The difference is that only one of those turned into something I actually think about. The rest stayed content. What's the actual difference between a campaign and a moment? Think about how you remember a trip. Not the itinerary, not most of what happened,

I spent three days at the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest this July on VIP passes from JigSpace, a partner of the Audi Revolut F1 Team. I went in for the racing. What I actually got was three days inside the world of a Formula 1 team, and by the end of it, the clearest, most physical understanding I've ever had of something I spend my working life trying to explain to clients: what a brand is actually worth. What does it take to run an F1 weekend, really? The first thing tha