Advertising Age and the Ipsos Observer people released new research [1] in mid-February that sought to better understand the social media habits of US consumers. To no one’s surprise, Facebook is the dominant social network through which users want to receive communications from marketers. Nearly 75% [...]
Please allow me to re-visit what is now very old news in the social media world. Somehow I missed it when it happened. Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and author of significant acclaim, wrote an article which appeared in The New Yorker magazine’s October 2010 issue titled: [...]
It makes sense to be forward-looking at the beginning of the year. Some of what I learned in researching-up for this topic was a surprise to me, and some of it, luckily, actually made sense: 1. Where Online Media is Going It’s always discussed with [...]
Humour in marketing. No weapon in the marketers’ arsenal is as potentially powerful and so often misused. At the most simplistic level, humour in marketing works like this: If an ad makes us smile, we like the ad and the brand too. I get the [...]
I hate it when truth gets in the way of a good story. I recently had a long and interesting chat with the senior marketing person at Audi Canada during the period I wrote about in an Oct 5th post on this blog. Now I need to revise my [...]
Marketing gurus and practitioners are constantly talking about how vitally important it is to project a consistent brand image. And it is. Everyone understands this best at the literal level, which has resulted in the creation and enforcement of corporate or brand identity guidelines. These can [...]
