27/05/2026
What a day.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at What’s Next Live: Music and the Machines at Somerset House last week.
From AI and attention… to fandoms, music, culture and content ecosystems, the conversations throughout the afternoon reinforced just how much brand building is changing and how the brands that win tomorrow will be the ones people actively seek out, talk about and choose to spend time with.
We were incredibly lucky to hear from such an amazing line-up of speakers, but special thanks have to go to Tim Ellis, Jordan Stephens and Nathan Ansell, who were all remarkable. Insightful, funny, honest and hugely generous with their experiences and perspectives.
Thank you to all of our speakers Daniel Thomas, Hamish McPharlin, Flora Kessler, Tracey Follows, Julie Chadwick and Chris McKibbin and to our clients and partners for making the conversations so open, energetic and thought-provoking.
And of course to the dentsu team Martin Joyce, Pauline Jyh-Peng Hsu, Tom Walden and Ammira Syed and Event Concept for bringing it all together.
More thoughts, content and our Word of Mouth or Word of Machine thinking coming soon.