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Waiting for Vodot. Why ‘video on demand’ won’t happen

Market Leader 2011

 Many digital experts predict an imminent transition to non-linear television – video on demand (VOD). Patrick Barwise clarifies the definitions

This much I’ve learned

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the best advice i got … Was from John Hegarty: do interesting things and interesting things will happen.

the worst

Aesthetics, jugs and rock’n’roll

Market Leader 2011

Definitions of ‘creativity’ are elusive. Here, Paul Feldwick examines what exactly aesthetics contribute to our appreciation of the world –

"I'm sorry –you've lost me": five words a brand should never have to hear

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The year 2008 may be remembered as the one when numbers finally lost their capacity to shock. At the beginning

ICI transforms performance by marketing excellence

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Winners of the Grand Prix and the Marketing Capabilities award in the Marketing Society Awards for Excellence 2008, this case

Marketing: the trade with a hole in the middle?

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About 45 years ago, I used to come away from top-level client meetings with a sense of deep despair. 'When

Global brands and local culture

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A Survey Conducted by Millward Brown for The Global Brand in 2008, helps illustrate the basic drivers of brand success

Web 2.0 is not about technology: it’s about human relationships

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Griffiths argues that companies are ducking the major challenges of Web 2.0 by treating them only as internet/customer communications issues

Winner takes all in the networked economy

Market Leader Spring 2010

Ferocious competition is the norm in most of the networked economy, but a single supplier has dominated the markets for

Grounded in coffee

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In this edited interview with the founder of Starbucks, from the Marketing Society's recent event, Colin Cameron talks to Howard

What choice architecture means for marketing

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Behavioural economics has given us the concept of choice architecture. What it means is simply that the way a choice

Words worth

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The greatest short story ever written is just six words long by Ernest Hemingway. ‘Baby shoes. For sale. Never worn.’

Co-creation is here: we can’t ignore it

Market Leader January 2012

Doron Meyassed, Philip Burgess and Priscilla Daniel argue that co-creation is one of the most powerful, modern-day sources of

Words worth

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R is for reading aloud. Hearing your words is a great way to help improve writing, says Elen Lewis

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Entertainment brands as partners

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With the digital revolution, sponsors are increasingly able to tie-in with entertainment brands across different media delivering more value to

What management heretics believe in

Market Leader June 2011

Martin Kornberger and David Redhill describe how Deloitte Australia turned the management rule-book upside down, emerging with a heretical approach

Learn to predict causes of the ‘perfect storm’

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IN MANY respects, both the Toyota recall and BP oil spill incidents represented a ‘perfect storm’ crisis situation. A rare

China’s Ruling Party really needs to let go

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Is China serious about major economic reform? Probably not, says Tom Doctoroff

Of late, many propaganda pieces in the

Marketers need more insight

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The recent publication of Future Foundation’s The Future of Insight report1 argues for a more prominent role for the insight

Blogbytes: lessons from the herd with NOTW

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The Most popular Marketing Society blog article over the summer was by Alex Batchelor on lessons in normative herd behaviour

Smarter campaigns

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Every day, marketers and their agencies devise their next big digital marketing programme: the websites will be visited by millions