Posted in Brand Communications, Brand Thinking, Creative on 10. Feb, 2011
With ‘ideas’ being a dominant currency and in fact something that agencies are able to sell as a separate offering to execution; more thought and clarity is needed around the distinction between a strategic idea (a strategy, a strategic direction, etc) and a creative idea (creative territory, creative platform, etc). Having read and enjoyed this, [...]
Posted in Brand Communications, Marketing on 30. Aug, 2010
According to Oxford Economic Research (Sept, 2007), hosting the London 2012 Olympics will cause a number of economic displacement impacts. As such, due to overseas visitors staying away because of the perceived expense (160m), domestic tourists heading abroad as a result of the games (124m), and Londoners leaving the capital due to overcrowding fears (91m), [...]
Posted in Brand Communications, Digital, Social Media on 04. Aug, 2010
This time last week I would have confidently asserted that although some have dipped their toes in the water, no other car manufacturer is more deeply embedded in social media than Ford. On Wednesday, (July 28th), however, Ford well and truly became the mayors of their market. They are now the first car manufacturer to [...]
Posted in Brand Communications, Brand Thinking, Creative, Digital, Marketing, Social Media on 27. Jul, 2010
(Originally written for and published on the Headstream Blog…)
Yes, it’s a great concept, yes, the simplicity is genius, and yes, it demonstrates sound channel selection and a smart approach to engaging with celebrities, influencers and the likes of you and me in equal measures. Loads of ticks in loads of boxes, but if I had [...]
Posted in Brand Communications, Brand Culture, Brand Thinking, Digital, Social Media on 13. Jul, 2010
People look to brands as identity resources – as bits and pieces that all contribute to building a sense of themselves and how they wish to be seen by others. People also tend to align themselves with brands that stand for similar values as them, or, of course, values that they aspire to stand for. [...]
Posted in Brand Communications, Brand Thinking, Digital, Marketing, Social Media on 11. Jun, 2010
Reading back over my last couple of posts with a mixture of pride and recoil, I realised that my perspective so far on the relationship between brands and digital media has been a little bit rosy. Inspired in part by a brilliant post from @Tom_Messett, I concluded that if I’m going to be blogging about the [...]
Posted in Brand Communications, Brand Thinking, Creative, Digital, Marketing, Research, Social Media on 25. Apr, 2010
So who am I and how does this pertain to what I’ll be writing/blogging/waffling about? It’s good to be concise, so if I can answer this in less than 100 words then I’ll consider this my first blogging success! Here goes…
I’m an account handling, business developing, project managing, plannery type working in a strategic brand [...]
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