There is something seriously wrong with the world when brands are openly out to get you. Marketing itself has often been slated, most famously by Bill Hicks who openly ranted that marketing types "are filling the world with violent garbage and should probably kill themselves". Marketing is about...

I have been meaning to write this for a while now. There was only one thing holding me back: in all honesty, mentioning the F-word was starting to frighten me.

Why was a word that was meant to encapsulate freedom and empowerment slowly becoming an intimidating one, making me step...

In today's media world, everyone is expected to be an 'ideas person'. If you are not prepared to bring a number of intelligent ideas to the table, you cannot expect to work successfully in a creative job. Well, not for long anyway. Creativity and originality all stem from having unique...

You know the types of books that you pack in your suitcase, itching to start reading before your holiday begins but you know you should wait until you can fully immerse yourself? The books that make you excited to be away from home, to climb into the hazy heads of...

Everyone and anyone could follow this year's Olympic Games and get real-time updates at any time via a smartphone or digital TV. Of course previous Olympics had always been a curated experience via TV, radio and online where broadcasters controlled what was streamed and what viewers would see around the...

The atmosphere at Team GB House was electric. Security teams were in full force with rumours bubbling that a certain Prince Harry about to make an appearance. Champagne glasses were clinking, people were hugging, everyone was bursting with pride but also starting to look a little weary from what has...

Day 5. Women's Beach Volleyball. The feminist side of my brain was egging me on to complain before I even arrived. I was about to sit through three hours of a male dominated audience ogling at toned women bending over in their ready position. The fantasy of perving on big...

I've been following Melissa Stetten's blog for a while now. I think it's the first of its kind. When have you ever heard a model being blunt and honest about the drawbacks of such a seemingly glamorous lifestyle? Do models have insecurities? The answer is yes. And Melissa...

It's that time again to talk careers. This time, I'm focusing on the radio industry, asking questions about daily life in the studio, work experience and the best bits of the job. My guest today is Phil Stocker who works at Radio 1 for the Fearne Cotton show.

EG:...

This week I chatted to Hannah Rouch who started her career in fashion and beauty journalism at The Sunday Telegraph's Stella Magazine. She then went onto become the Fashion and Beauty Editor of Red Online. In October 2011 she launched her own online site StyleNest.

EG: Can you...

Here's another official interview as part of my 'Career Chat' series. This week I am pleased to be interviewing Colin Campbell-Austin, Channel 4's People Development Manager. Here's some great pieces of advice for how you can kick-start your dream career in television.

EG: Hi Colin. Tell us a bit about...

Whether we like it or not, there is still a social stigma attached to online dating. It's something people feel slightly apprehensive about, maybe because they're often unsure of the correct 'internetiquette' of how to go about it properly. Even if people are regular, confident online-daters, it appears it's still...

Welcome to my new feature 'Career Chat' where I will be grabbing industry professionals for a coffee and a chinwag (or a quick email) about how to bag that dream job. I'll be picking their brains on what it takes to climb the ladder of success and how to stand...

Being an ex-English Literature student who can remember that stunned 'what now?' feeling as soon as the graduations robes were off, I thought back to what it felt like to not have anyone tell you how to get that dream job. With that in mind, I decided to ask Grace...

When I say the word 'diet' I desperately want to believe that is a word that symbolises an act of personal freewill, a word that is conjured up freely and solely by me. When I recently read up about the 'Ditching Dieting' campaign, it never properly struck me that there...

I have a confession, and this is it: I buy too many clothes. I will also admit that more often than not, I will buy lots of cheap clothes in one foul credit-crunching swoop. I will also buy something just because it's on sale. And yes, this means that sometimes...

When was the last time you visited the high street, and when was the last time you actually enjoyed the experience?

It only takes one episode of Mary Portas: Queen of Shops to bitterly inject with me with memories of the times I have sweated along Oxford Street only to...

It is widely and quite bluntly presumed that you are either creative, or you are not. To one person a lamppost can be the inspiration behind a thriller crime-scene novel set on that particular street-lit corner; and to some one else, it might just be a lamppost.

If someone sits...

One of my friends spends a lot of time in Rome. She (Sophia) is also known amongst our friendship group for bursting into energetic Italian in mid conversation. When she mentioned recently that I check out an Italian documentary she's been helping to work on, I politely agreed to watch...

I'm excited because today I got to interview one of my all-time favourite bloggers: The Frenemy. Being a manic-scroller-double-clicker and only truly comfortable speaking in 140 characters at a time, I usually scan blogs, but rarely properlyread them. However, when the perfect Hollywood stories of the really-rich-and-really-famous in Elle and...