The Canadian Marketing Association (CMA) and Ipsos collaborate on a long-running survey titled, The Canadian Digital Marketing Pulse. 2018 results were released last September [1]. It’s an annual assessment of the digital marketing landscape from both an agency and marketer perspective. One component of this [...]
Estimating this is akin to predicting anything about the current POTUS. Too many degrees of freedom, as the statisticians say. Too many moving parts, as the rest of us say. We recently looked at the cannabis market in the Canadian context (see: THE CANNABIS CRAZE). [...]
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” John Wanamaker, 1838-1922 This is a quote generally attributed to John Wanamaker, an American department store magnate, US Postmaster General, religious leader and politician, born in 1838. Yes, [...]
Every once in a while, someone in the marketing world makes a public statement that seems so wrong, yet no one seems to care. Or maybe everyone else thinks it’s perfectly fine. Case in point: Bob Pease, President of America’s (Craft) Brewers Association, did an [...]
We repost from Mark Ritson’s blog more than any other [1]. That’s because he’s usually on the right side of marketing issues (in our opinion) and he’s entertaining to read. On the downside, he’s very, very long to read. And the potty mouth gets old, [...]
Throughout its surprisingly long history, the literary genre of science fiction has had a curious way of often coming true. Particularly prolific in the genre, at least in terms of sci-fi that Hollywood could commercialise, was Philip K Dick. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, he [...]
