verbosity alert Three marketing presentations on advertising effectiveness from 2025 caught our collective eyes over the past few months, for what they have in common and how they differ. “The Long and the Short (form) of it”– Andrew Tindall & Josh Fruttiger of System1 with [...]
We gave up on talking about America’s annual Super Bowl ad extravaganza long ago, and the last time we did, we pointed to someone else’s great take on it [1]. Over the last few years, we’ve been getting the feeling that the UK marketing industry’s fanaticism [...]
Last week, we witnessed the launch of a lovely new creative campaign for what is clearly a purpose brand: The Natural Meat Co. After reveling in this creative's wonderfulness for a bit, I started thinking about purpose branding in general. Please come into this [...]
As you may well know, Mark Ritson made a much-talked-about presentation at Cannes 2025. It may seem surprising to some that the organisers of the WARC/Cannes Lions events invited him, since he’s on record as saying he would never go. He has also said a [...]
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
ramble alert The Back Story I’ve been slowly working away at fixing my grandfather’s typewriter (just like everyone). It’s an Underwood № 5, built in 1914. The same year WWI started. Somewhere around the time of WWII, it was ‘refurbished’ to add a wider [...]
