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 [...]
I've heard it said many times by marketing people, quietly–even sheepishly, "I'm not sure social media/search/programmatic/mobile/whatever digital really works that well for our brand/company/anyone." This takes some bravery because questioning the status quo thinking in any industry brands you as an idiot or a savant. [...]
Trending right now in the digital marketing world is the ‘chatbot’. Despite Microsoft’s very recent and (I’m sorry, see sidebar) humorous TAY failure, the rush seems to be on to create bots that talk to humans on multiple web and social media platforms and over [...]
You know when a new (-ish) marketing topic gets serious coverage in the general business media, the topic is a fundamental one. The June 27th Globe & Mail Report on Business cover story was titled “How automation is shaking up the advertising industry” [1] and described [...]
The practice of companies building and using their own internal creative and media resources has been around for a long time. It has often been the starting point for small entrepreneurial companies and larger companies that focus a major portion of the marketing budget in [...]
Things are clearly a bit slow (or depressing, or both) over in the creative department at Tribal DDB New York. Slow enough that they had the time to create the Wheel of Concept, Digital Edition. Take a spin by clicking here. Funny it is, but [...]
