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 [...]
As so often happens in the marketing world, another word has lost its original (and proper) meaning. To this club, which includes ‘Activation’, ‘Engagement’ and ‘Hack’, we must now add ‘Authenticity’. The genesis of this post is a recent post in Marketing Week titled, ‘Authenticity [...]
Clearly, hacking is a very big topic for the new Trump administration. Fast food, and the McDonald's brand in particular, are big favourites of Donald Trump. After you read this post, check out the TV commercial below from 2014, and its chilling last line of dialogue. In a [...]
