Remember BrewDog? That scappy Scottish craft beer brand that started in the small town of Fraserburgh, Scotland, in 2007? This week, under the ownership of publicly-traded Tilray Brands, BrewDog launched its ‘Choose Craft’ campaign in the UK. To fully appreciate this move, you may need [...]
As I have done many times since 1987, when Creemore Springs Brewery opened, I went to this year’s Copper Kettle Festival. Creemore Springs has long been the commercial engine of the village of Creemore, Ontario. Although the festival is centred on the brewery, it [...]
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 [...]
This post was sparked by an article in this week’s UK’s Campaign feed titled, ‘Fighting for the cart: new rules for the path to purchase.’ [1] The latter is actually a teaser and backgrounder for a Campaign-sponsored panel discussion on the topic later this month. [...]
