Editor's note: Ten years ago, in 1998, there was much frenzied talk of an imminent recession. In March of that
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THE MARKETING SOCIETY was formed in the drab, post-war wreck of Britain's 1950s. At the time, America seemed the exact
This is a very personal view of where I think the digital age is taking marketing in the next ten
Why do CEOs automatically assume that costs are too high, asks Jules Goddard, in his fascinating lead article? Perhaps we
Melanie Howard looks at how the necessity for companies to offer value for money during the recession has developed into
True, there are green shoots. US job losses are slowing. Western countries are coming out of recession, and BRIC growth
The Mars bar, Pret a Manger, Apple iPod, Google, X Factor, Dyson. All of these brands represent famous success stories
Since the mid-1990s, many Western multinationals have established beach-heads in China by focusing on the three main population centres. The
In New York in the early 1960s, a truly seminal ad campaign broke. Posters in the subway, showing different ethnic
Agencies have always liked to think of themselves as partners but Derek Day questions just how realistic this is. Quoting
There are ten simple – but not always obvious – social principles that I’ve found useful while working in digital
Let’s invent a market: an established, low-tech, low-cost, repeat-purchase market. Let’s call it the greeby market.
Greebies are used in
Traditional marketing approaches run the risk of being slow and ponderous. Anthony Freeling argues that ‘agile marketing’ is a requirement
THE QUESTION of how much control we, as marketers and brands, should hand over to the consumer in relation to
All transactions involve games. Rory Sutherland analyses the short versus the long game in business, and wonders if the instinct
Peter Field describes an ingenious analysis of cases from the IPA awards and Gunn report that puts to rest any
Lemon. If there was one word that summed up marketing and advertising in 1961, it was lemon.
In the US
The Brand Learning WheelTM is a simple model to help organisations appreciate what building marketing excellence requires in practice and
I like aphorisms. Not for nothing are these compact little sayings the finest means of wisdom delivery known to mankind
If your car let you down catastrophically and then cost a fortune to fix, you probably wouldn't hesitate to switch