March 25, 2006

Sign of the times

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Martin Oetting at Consumer Empowerment found this little gem.

In a local campaign in the US GM brand Pontiac used a rather unique call to action: “Don’t take our word for it google pontiac and discover for yourself”. To explain the approach, GM’s head of sales said in BusinessWeek: “We’re touting Google, frankly, because it stands for credibility and consumer empowerment, and we like the association.”

Martin says this hardly qualifies as consumer empowerment. I see his point but I think it is at least an acknowledgement of consumer power. And it’s certainly another sign of how power is shifting in the world of marketing.

Waterfalls and chaos

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.

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New Abbey

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”)

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