At the privacy of our own keyboards people give up all sorts of interesting insights into what they want – and no data source is better that search. So.. Google trends is always worth a look – as well as Think with Google for a barometer for changing consumer culture- and therefore what people nowContinue reading “How consumer culture is changing”
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Techlash: mood music for 2018
The idea that Big Tech has really evolved into over-powerful “Tech behemoths” has been gathering strength in 2017 – and not just in the protectionist minds of the EU The seminar book – that makes the case for break up- is Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin and is my business book ofContinue reading “Techlash: mood music for 2018”
Why agencies must invest more in training
My case for investment is just published in Aurora ( Pakistan’s leading marketing and advertising periodical) and is reproduced with their kind permission. I think that the argument applies to all markets. Agencies, most of which are under competitive pressure and enduring tighter margins, need to invest if they are to be credible business partnersContinue reading “Why agencies must invest more in training”
A tale of pickles, puppet shows and Punjabi wrestling
Memories of my recent visit to Karachi and Lahore, at the invitation of Pakistan Advertisers Society, to run my seminar “Brand Building in the digital age” This piece has just been published in the latest issue of Market Leader and is reproduced with their kind permission. Article hereSaunders Plus pics of “The welders”,”The landlord”, andContinue reading “A tale of pickles, puppet shows and Punjabi wrestling”
Brave
was the big idea of this year’s Marketing Society conference. It proved an inspirational platform. A great conference theme- credit must go to new CEO Gemma Greaves and her team. This being an individualistic culture (and age) stories were often told as personal triumphs over fear, especially in extreme sports (a big theme of theContinue reading “Brave”
More from the insights treasure trove
Beats by Dre won a gold in the APG awards with what, I think, is a great piece of advertising thinking. The brand and the agency (R/GA) may be super hip, yet the thinking is classical. The brand found a fresh, simple and easy to understand emotional promise and dramatised it brilliantly – the ideaContinue reading “More from the insights treasure trove”
An insight treasure trove (that all strategists should read)
Top news. The 2017 APG awards book is out. Reading it is one of the best “strategy workouts” that a planner can do. So, that’s what i am going to do – and i am going to use it illuminate what we mean by that much used word – “Insight”- and how it helps unlock greatContinue reading “An insight treasure trove (that all strategists should read)”
Everybody Lies
Book review just published in the latest issue of Market Leader – reproduced courtesy of WARC.com. “Everybody Lies” really is a very entertaining and insightful book about what is revealed by Data – with a focus on Google. Weakness is that the examples are mainly from USA Here is the longer review in The Guardian
Are you about to be thrown out of work by AI ?
Tech evangelists are all wide eyed and excited about it, promoting the idea of super-fast disruptive change just round the corner. I am not so sure – my latest on how fast change really is,just published in Aurora
What’s not going to change
Here is my counter-blast against the (much promoted) idea that everything in marketing is changing. It is just published in the new issue of Market Leader – the strategic marketing journal for business leader. It is reproduced with their permission. Subscribe at http://www.warc.com/bookstore Saunders final