Well, this saga turned out to be a bust. In the final chapter, Chrome’s third-party cookie will remain completely intact, ruining everyone’s favourite graphic and verbal analogy. Yes, the Google cookie un-crumbles. We didn’t bother covering Google’s last two cookie-deprecation delays. Let’s close off this [...]
Full disclosure: The emotional icon (aka emoji) has been a pet peeve of mine from its beginning. I have quixotically refused to use them (except for this post), even though the majority of my friends and colleagues unabashedly do. Emojis have always seemed silly and [...]
1950s Lilli cartoon sample, see note 6 Over her years, Barbie (the doll) [1] has been a massive marketing success story. A bigger success than the very successful Barbie the Movie [2]. But because I did not have a daughter and because my two boys are [...]
Marketing Week is one the UK’s top two marketing business magazines. Like many, they do an annual Career & Salary Survey. Over the past week, they’ve been revealing interesting results from their 2024 survey: The most overrated marketing skill: social media [1] The most undervalued marketing [...]
Client: Stok'd Cannabis Agency: Angry Butterfly Market: Canada Timing: first appearing late February, 2024 Full Advertising Age article link: here Previous MW blog posts on cannabis marketing: CANNABIS’ INCONVENIENT TRUTH JUST HOW BIG IS THE CANNABIS MARKET? THE CANNABIS CRAZE
Every generation or so, we like to revisit the topic of demographics. To be fair, we’ve only done that once previously, here: THOSE PESKY MILLENNIALS BY THE NUMBERS. This previous post was in 2015, so it was far from being a traditional generation ago. It’s [...]
