Before writing this post, I was of the mistaken opinion that Creator was a flattering rebranding of Influencer. Chalk that misunderstanding up to me not being an avid consumer of social media. Even though I have a new-found understanding of the Creator Economy, I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
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 [...]
