Think pieces

Samsung redefines waiting game for Galaxy S4 launch

Joss Davidge, Business Director of brand experience agency BEcause, continues his weekly quest for great marketing ideas. This week he

One good turn

The story of the lost suitcase, the good Samaritan and the elephant in the room

Thomas was sitting quietly waiting

Words. Sentences. Paragraphs. Stories.

The most common style of public speaking, one that’s often used by politicians and is surprisingly common among investment pitches

Mobile is killing media

There's a five-fold gap between mobile revenue and desktop revenue for the same page. In other words, for every page

How KitKat breathes life into its 'Have a Break' strapline

This week he looks at how KitKat is bringing its 'Have a Break, have a KitKat' strapline to life using

Finding that perfect marketing match

With the steady rise of online dating in the last few years the original player, Match.com (founded in 1995), has

He who dies with the most toys wins

In Brussels the other week for a conference hosted by a family owned investment business, I was treated to a

Function + emotion = mythical brand status

One of my favourite epigrams on branding is this: Brands become myths by telling the truth. The idea is a

Marketing Stunts

RedBull achieved marketing nirvana last year when they sponsored Felix Baumgartner’s jump from a helium balloon in the stratosphere to

Building trust by feeding pigs

This week he looks at campaign that builds trust and gets people talking by connecting Londoners with ‘happy pigs’.
 

Surface the insights inside the company

Earlier in the year I went to interview the CEO of FNB, the South African Bank voted in 2012 ‘The

'Always give more' Kindness and humanity in business

'Always give people more than they expect'
Nelson Boswell

There’s a great new post from Seth Godin on the 11

Fantasy Football: system 2 preparations / system 1 choices

Jack Tarshis is the son of one of my best friends. He is a filmmaker and soon to be a

Your alphabet

The only reason that typesetting works is that a small collection of letters can be re-used again and again to print millions of different words.

Put a pencil in your mouth

pencil

Priming is a nonconscious form of human memory, which is concerned with perceptual identification of words and objects.

It refers

Chief customer officer? No thanks

That American business import, 'the C suite', gets some bad press. In the FT recently, Lucy Kellaway wrote a whole

The trailblazing Lexus #TraceYourRoad experience

Joss Davidge, business director of brand experience agency BEcause, continues his weekly search for great marketing ideas.

This week he

As I was riding along

Earlier this year I spoke at the conference organised by the IPM where I was asked to give a view

The 0.02 mile high British Airways experience

Joss Davidge, business director of brand experience agency BEcause, continues his weekly search for great marketing ideas.

This week he

Celebrating start of a new recovery?

What a golden summer it has been! Rarely do the weather, the economy and sporting success all shine together. In

Getting to grips with global positioning

In today’s global society, brands that do not stand for something are expecting their consumers to fall for anything and