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The full agenda for the Festival of Marketing 2017 was unveiled earlier today.

It includes the usual mix of marketing heavyweights, industry icons, innovative startups, and a handful of celebrities.

Brand marketers, agencies, consultants, designers and PRs, you have until Monday 15th May to enter the biggest and best marketing awards around.

Here’s what you need to know about the Masters of Marketing Awards 2017…

Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in January of 2007.

It turned out to be an important moment in technology, society more generally and, ergo, for marketers, too. But what about in the intervening years (10 at time of writing), what were the biggest moments in marketing?

Here’s my attempt at a list of 15. In what you may think of as a cop out, I haven’t ranked each event (my head is safely below the parapet).

Haven’t we all wondered what is must be like to work in luxury travel, putting in the hard graft to review secret hideaways across the world?

Is it all white beaches and daiquiris for travel marketing teams? Clair O’Neill, marketing manager at i-escape, tells us about a typical day in her working life.

Bank of Scotland, Halifax, Lloyds and Natwest have just announced over 200 branch closures collectively. Natwest says it’s a result of the ‘dramatic shift’ from face-to-face to online and mobile transactions.

Nothing new there… 32 of its branches went last year because of ‘increased use of digital banking’ and 300 as far back as 1996, as it rolled out new technology.

Mark Lea is Commercial Manager at London Doctors Clinic and his remit involves heading up the marketing function of the private clinic chain.

We caught up with him to find out what he does every day.