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Beyond the long tail…

Market Leader 2011

Fru Hazlitt discusses the anticipated and real impact of the digital age on TV production, transmission and revenue streams

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How to pick a winner

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Successful entrepreneur Luke Johnson acknowledges that researching the psychological make-up of entrepreneurs is difficult, but here he offers some tips

Sub-prime marketing is over

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Derek Williams, former Managing Director of Cadbury Schweppes, and veteran of recessions past, takes a look at the current scene

Ready for Enterprise 2.0?

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Consider the tools that anyone with online access has at their disposal today: Wikipedia and others for collaborative authoring, Facebook

Co-creating with consumers: a new way of innovating

Market Leader Spring 2009

It is no secret that the past 20 years have seen a major decline – some would say the slow

Brand valuation: from marketing department to boardroom

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This idea of brands functioning as corporate assets, rather than expenses, might seem obvious now, but was the basis for

How market leaders can become challenger brands once more

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Warren Buffett recently revealed that when he plays online bridge against Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft assumes the nom

How brand communities influence innovation and culture

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The shift in power between consumer and producer brought by the new technologies has implications for organisations and the control

If we choose to believe what Emerson didn’t say, then we’re all doomed

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This article is reprinted from the latest WPP Annual Report and Accounts, with kind permission. It expands on a theme

What the inventor of the teddy bear has to remind us about advertising

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'The best things in these sermons are as old as the hills,' wrote Seymour Eaton 103 years ago. These are

‘Mad Men’

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In a Market Leader exclusive, Jeremy Bullmore reveals what it was like for a young man going to a New

Keeping brands healthy

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I recently attended a lecture on the applications of neuroscience to marketing. All the data marketers will ever need, it

Triumph of a better ideology

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Market innovation has long been dominated by the world view of engineers and economists – build a better mousetrap and

Learning how to say ‘You’re fired’ successfully

Market Leader March 2012

Sweet Lord Sugar probably learned to yell ‘You’re fired!’ at the midwives while still in his crib, but I was

Thanks for the memories, Kodak

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Michael Bayler suggests that we have lost more than just a business with the demise of Kodak

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Stop feeling guilty, learn to trust your instincts

Market Leader March 2012

We feel we must justify our choices logically. But Rory Sutherland says instinctive decision-making is  what we do naturally and

Because marketers are worth it

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How are you feeling today? Are you feeling noble? Even saintly? Probably not. Well maybe you should be. Because marketing

Technology that helps you to monitor yourself

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Communicating with ourselves is now as important as communicating with other people. Melanie Howard describes a trend called The Quantified

Why good concepts are strangled at birth

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Companies need to assess innovations without prejudice, and with an acceptance of some risk, says David Aaker

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Heard the one about good comedians and behavioural economics?

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This past week I have been reading How I Escaped My Certain Fate by the fascinating and innovative stand-up comedian

Ignore culture and brand fit at your peril

Market Leader 2011

Terry Tyrrell argues that the mismatch of cultures and failure to examine brand fit lies at the root of the