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AS THE GOOGLE COOKIE UN-CRUMBLES

By |August 12th, 2024|Categories: Marketing Industry, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Well, this saga turned out to be a bust. In the final chapter, Chrome’s third-party cookie will remain completely intact, ruining everyone’s favourite graphic and verbal analogy. Yes, the Google cookie un-crumbles. We didn’t bother covering Google’s last two cookie-deprecation delays. Let’s close off this [...]

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💀 THE EMOJI, 🙏

By |May 30th, 2024|Categories: Digital, Marketing Industry, Social Media, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

THE REAL BARBIE STORY

By |April 22nd, 2024|Categories: Marketing Industry, Media, People|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

1950s Lilli cartoon sample, see note 6 Over her years, Barbie (the doll) [1] has been a massive marketing success story. A bigger success than the very successful Barbie the Movie [2]. But because I did not have a daughter and because my two boys are [...]

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SURVEY SAYS: WE’RE MISVALUING MARKETING SKILLS

By |March 7th, 2024|Categories: Marketing Industry, Research, Social Media, Strategy|

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 [...]

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STOK’D CANNABIS CAMPAIGN

By |February 26th, 2024|Categories: Creative|Tags: , |

Client: Stok'd Cannabis Agency: Angry Butterfly Market: Canada Timing: first appearing late February, 2024 Full Advertising Age article link: here Previous MW blog posts on cannabis marketing: CANNABIS’ INCONVENIENT TRUTH JUST HOW BIG IS THE CANNABIS MARKET? THE CANNABIS CRAZE

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A GEN Z COMING-OF-AGE STORY

By |January 29th, 2024|Categories: News, Research, Social Media|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

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MARKETING COURAGE & CRAFT BEER

By |September 17th, 2023|Categories: Marketing Industry, People|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Experience has taught us that two of the most difficult things for today’s marketers seem to be: Sticking to a successful brand strategy in the long term. Meaning longer than five years. Returning to a previous successful brand strategy when the current one fails. [...]

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LEARNING FROM UNDERWOOD 5

By |July 27th, 2023|Categories: Creative|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

ramble alert The Back Story I’ve been slowly working away at fixing my grandfather’s typewriter (just like everyone). It’s an Underwood № 5, built in 1914. The same year WWI started. Somewhere around the time of WWII, it was ‘refurbished’ to add a wider carriage, [...]

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AI: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY

By |April 17th, 2023|Categories: News, Technology, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

First question: Does the world really need another AI blog post? ChatGPT is (strangely) equivocal when asked this question. I guess it hasn’t been coded to have an ego. So here’s our take on where we’re at with AI, the good, the bad and [...]

CRAFT MARKETING – A TALE OF TWO WINES

By |January 29th, 2023|Categories: People, Strategy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

verbosity alert Throughout human history, winemaking has been a craft industry, ruled by artisans and run by families. In modern times, we believe that categorisation applies even to the big producers in traditional Old World winemaking countries [1]. They got big one of two [...]

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WHAT ChatGPT & NUCLEAR FUSION HAVE IN COMMON

By |December 14th, 2022|Categories: Digital, Marketing Industry, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

The marketing world is currently all aTwitter about ChatGPT, a newly-released AI-driven chatbot technology, and what it will mean for the future of marketing. The wider Western world is all aTwitter about a nuclear fusion experiment in a California-based laboratory that has created a ‘net [...]

WHEN GREAT BRANDS BREAK OUR HEART

By |January 22nd, 2022|Categories: Marketing Industry, News, Strategy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It doesn’t happen very often, but every once in a while, a brand you really love will break your heart. VW and Loblaws are brands beloved by consumers for decades of quality products and services. Also beloved by marketers for decades of great marketing [...]

FAIL BETTER

By |September 28th, 2021|Categories: Business Start-up, Strategy, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , |

There’s a great phrase often used by entrepreneurs, startup founders and those who consult for them: Fail Better. Like so many phrases in modern business lexicon, it is of curious origin (see sidebar). For the purpose of this discussion, let’s assume it means learn from [...]

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THE WORLD’S BEST OLYMPIC STRATEGY

By |August 9th, 2021|Categories: Marketing Industry, News, Strategy, World|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have certainly been interesting. There were many great individual stories and surprises, but the top 10 medal-winning countries were the usual suspects. Canada came in 11th in total medals. We know who the world’s best decathlete was in Tokyo, Canada's [...]

POST-COVID CREATIVE RENAISSANCE?

By |July 22nd, 2021|Categories: Creative, Digital, Marketing Industry, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

We’re starting to see this idea in the marketing industry media and we’re hearing it from some of our peers. The idea that the marketing world will enjoy a post-COVID creative renaissance is a lovely thought. Then came Canada’s record-breaking award haul at Cannes 2021 [1]. [...]

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AS THE COOKIE CRUMBLES – Chap 4

By |June 24th, 2021|Categories: Digital, Marketing Industry, Media, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The story that started here as GOOGLE’S DÉJÀ VU will have lots of future twists and turns as the (third-party) cookie crumbles. We decided to follow the chapters that we actually understand and think are important in the Marketing Wilderness context: “Google Grants a [...]

AS THE COOKIE CRUMBLES – Chaps 2 &3

By |June 7th, 2021|Categories: Digital, Marketing Industry, Media, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The story that started here as GOOGLE’S DÉJÀ VU will have lots of future twists and turns as the (third-party) cookie crumbles. We decided to follow the chapters that we actually understand and think are important in the Marketing Wilderness context. Let’s do this in [...]

ASTRAZENECA’S VERY UNFORTUNEATE BRAND FAIL

By |May 13th, 2021|Categories: Marketing Industry, News, World|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

From a product development point of view, the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is a miracle. It is the world’s best single hope in defeating the COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s also a marketing failure. This is significant because it means people have lost trust in the vaccine, [...]

ONCE A MAC

By |March 23rd, 2021|Categories: Creative, People, Strategy, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

In one of the most critically-acclaimed and popular North American advertising campaigns of all time, actor Justin Long was… a Mac (computer). Apple’s four-year, 65+-spot ‘Get a Mac’ campaign was previously highlighted here: WIELDING THE SWORDS OF HUMOUR. Have a quick look to remind yourself [...]

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GOOGLE’S DÉJÀ VU

By |March 17th, 2021|Categories: Marketing Industry, Media, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In January, 2020, Google advised the marketing world that it was doing away with the third-party browser cookie in its industry-leading Chrome browser by 2022. Then came the pandemic. So earlier this month, when Google (Alphabet Inc) announced it would not develop its own replacement [...]

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