I’ve recently been reading Mark Ritson’s blog posts for UK-based Marketing Week. They are a nice mixture of smart thinking and entertaining delivery. The Background Ritson is an Aussie and career academic who also does marketing consulting work. He comes across a bit like the [...]
It isn’t a surprise that Big Beer titan Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has come up with a marketing campaign—video spot, anyway—that pokes fun at the craft beer segment: Very well done, not surprisingly, by one of the world’s truly great agencies. But here’s the thing—AB [...]
Consumers’ desire for personalisation and mass-customisation does not mean they want every purchase decision to be complex. Consumers want decision simplicity, a topic covered here previously. Here are two new tales on the same topic. Liquid-Plumr vs Drano Have you shopped for household drain cleaner [...]
Earlier this month, Porsche AG celebrated the production of its one millionth 911 model. This is big news for the 24,500 people that work for Porsche, the 15,000 or so Porsche dealer employees, Volkswagen Group (Porsche’s parent), the less-than-a-million current Porsche owners and the multiple [...]
A big part of the success of Justin Trudeau's election campaign success is due to the excellent branding work of Bensimon Byrne. If you need a refresher on that, see the case study here. After election, and before the absolute need to worry about re-election, politicians and [...]
Today (in France), giant marketing network Publicis announced it is writing down the value of its digital brands (Razorfish, Digitas and Sapient) by 1.5B USD. [1] This was part of a discussion of the company's 2016 financial results, which indicated a loss of 567M USD, mainly [...]
