For many firms online marketing only means search. Retailers live and die by their position in the organic search rankings, and fight ever smarter battles in the bid wars for pay-per-click position. Money pouring into search marketing has kept search in pole position, accounting for over half of all the online ad spend in the UK. But now there’s a new kid on the block. So before its official launch in the UK, we caught up with Bing’s marketing manager in London. Cedric Chambaz told Danny Meadows-Klue the story of a new brand, a new approach and the big implications for agencies and advertisers fighting on the frontline in search battles.

June 2009

By day, he’s chief executive of a funky London agency called Taglab. They’re famous for a decade of building websites and online campaigns for global brands. But away from the web, Graham has been developing ideas around a new business principle – Secondomics. Drawing on psychology, biology, economics and game theory, he’s uncovered why often the real winners in the race are not the people who burn all their energy in being first to blaze a new trail, but those guys who coast in second; following the model and using half the effort. There’s certainly nothing of a coaster in Graham, but when he shared an early draft of his next book, we spotted a new Digital Thought Leader. Here’s what he told us…