Chris Anderson’s Long Tail Blog shows big falls in sales and participation for (paid for, recorded)music, TV, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines and Books. What’s going up? Movies, games and the web.
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”)
I’ve always really enjoyed speaking in public. Don’t know why, just do. So I’m chuffed that a couple of interesting events have come up for me recently. Yesterday I caught
Donald Factor makes a provocative point about frustration in groups, suggesting it may be the one common experience of participants. Embracing frustration may be the most powerful move a group can make.
The folks at Zopa (see my Brandshift post on a podcast with them) emailed me with their new viral: garden of zopa, “an interactive garden that reflects Zopa
It’s been too long since I browsed Gary Lawrence Murphy’s blog, and it’s been fun catching up. Here’s his delightful response to an ad for brain training online: why not
