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Inspiration and Advice

(Trick or) treat your customers to a Halloween promotion

Sarah Burns (Founder and Chief Prizeologist) • • 3 min read

What are you going as? I prefer not to repeat myself, but at my age there aren’t many original options, so I may have to fall back an outfit I’ve worn before.…

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Scam busting

Have you won the Facebook lottery?

Sarah Burns (Founder and Chief Prizeologist) • • 4 min read

Facebook may not pay as much tax in the UK as some think it should do. It may have allowed Cambridge Analytica to access the data of millions of its users…

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Inspiration and Advice

The paid-for prize draw trend

Sarah Burns (Founder and Chief Prizeologist) • • 5 min read

The ASA recently upheld a complaint against a company running a paid-for prize draw, and I’ll come on to the specifics of that, but I was particularly…

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Inspiration and Advice

Advertising the climate emergency

Sarah Burns (Founder and Chief Prizeologist) • • 3 min read

Last Friday an estimated four million people worldwide took to the streets to draw attention to the climate emergency and demand action to save the planet.…

BorderlessLive, which, says Lauren, was billed as the UK’s first ‘influencer festival’ and which took place in East London in early September.
Research and Insights

Are influencers really creators?

Sarah Burns (Founder and Chief Prizeologist) • • 4 min read

The other day I read a good piece in Vice by Lauren O’Neill, a staff writer specialising in millennials and the internet. It was a report about BorderlessLive,…

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Scam busting

Talking about prize draw scams

Sarah Burns (Founder and Chief Prizeologist) • • 3 min read

As you may know, I’m passionate about preventing scams of any kind, but particularly prize promotions scams, and for the last couple of years I’ve been a…

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