AdPulp spotted (via Josh Spear’s blog) this bit of fun marketing for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: scenes projected directly onto a 25 storey building in Brazil. Here’s the YouTube:
I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.
Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
We live in a world of too much marketing and too much branding. People’s faith in advertising has fallen to new lows as we simply
So the Abbey National is rebranding itself this morning. As I write this entry, they are revealing their new look, their shortened name (just “Abbey”)
Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Fans will fund our next movie say film-makers A smallish step towards a different model for movie production, spotted by Alan Moore. (tags: co-creation
I’ve been hosting Unhurried Conversations in Cambridge and London for a year or two now. And Viv has been experimenting with the format in Australia. And now the idea is
I had lunch yesterday with Flemming Madsen who runs a successful business helping organisations figure out who is influential online. You tell Flemming what issues concern you, he’ll try to
Prompted by Harold Jarche, I downloaded this free chapter (pdf) from Ruth Clark’s book on Evidence Based Training Methods. It provides some excellent provocative thinking especially around the whole industry
