Eleanor Thornton-Firkin

Eleanor Thornton-Firkin

Eleanor Thornton-Firkin

Head of Creative Excellence in the UK

IPSOS

Biography

Eleanor has been obsessed with advertising ever since she saw the first Absolut bottle ads back in the late ’80s. There was no mistaking the brand in those ads, as the bottle was such an iconic presence – in other words, she loved the power of distinctive assets before the phrase was even coined. Flash forward a number of decades and the power of assets to signify the brand and reduce friction in storytelling is a core part of her day-to-day. Her passion as an advertising researcher is to find the intersection of insight and action, going beyond data to support and enable great creative.