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Vicky Ross

Vicky Ross

Vikki Ross is a London-based copywriter and brand & tone-of-voice consultant, founder of Vikki Ross Writes, who has shaped brand voice for Sky, JLR, Virgin, ITV and other global brands.

Sep 10, 2026

2:15
And as we're going to go into this, I'd love people to understand a little bit more, you know, who you are, what is it you're doing? Because I think it'll be a very useful context to why we're talking about that aspect of AI having taken over, not so much taken over the way we write creatively.
2:30
Yeah, so I'm a copywriter and I specialize in finding a voice for a brand and telling them how to talk.
2:37
And then I create guidance to go with that voice that I've created.
2:47
I've had a bit of a journey with AI in the last year and a half.
2:53
So at the beginning of last year when the noise was really loud telling copywriters that AI was going to replace them.
3:01
And I really believed the hype without doing any research, which is so stupid because I later found out or realized that to be informed is to be armed.
3:14
And had I informed myself earlier, I might have saved myself some time.

21 MINS LATER

24:16
I'm curious how you feel about it.
17:26
Yeah.
17:26
For, for the reasons of you're born.
17:28
So what is happening now? You as a child, especially if you're like two, three, four years old, right? Very suggestible.
17:34
Brain waves are theta, which means everything's coming in.
17:38
I don't have experience and I don't have knowledge.
17:42
So therefore, what I'm witnessing, observing, so I could be experiencing something or I could be observing something.
17:51
So I can observe my parents having a discussion about a woman dressed provocatively and how bad that is.

35 MINS LATER

53:11
[laughs]
9:09
What do you what does it look like for them? Like what's in it as well?
9:13
OK, well, let me come back to what's in it.
9:15
But what it looks like is quite uninspiring, I suppose, because I am old and old fashioned and I don't really know how to work anything.
9:26
So I'm always clear at the start of any project that what anyone will get from me at the end is something in a Word document or PowerPoint document.
9:35
And that's OK, because the brand will have a design team or a design or brand agency that can make what I've written look good.
9:46
And it's really important that it looks good.
9:52
When I worked at Sky and I wrote the whole brand book for them, it's a big entertainment brand in Europe and it just looked stunning.

12 MINS LATER

21:49
for our listeners then, like if they want to be a brand writer, what's the fastest, best way to do it?

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