Several Blacketts have been or are prominent in marketing and media.In addition to Hill Blackett, the father of the “soap-opera” (see The rise of the soap opera), Tom Blackett, the former group deputy chairman of Interbrand, was appointed Chairman of the international brand consultancy Siegel+Gale UK in 2009. He is author of a number of books on brand management, including “Trademarks” (1997) and is a descendant of Alexander Blackett (see Can You Help Us?).
In 2017 Karen Blackett OBE was appointed Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. In 2020 she was appointed UK Chief Executive Officer of GroupM, the UK’s biggest media-buying group. Born in Reading, she descends from the Blacketts of Barbados (see West of the Pennines and Barbados in Can You Help Us?).