Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Incredible Deception: Using Research to Drive New Media Adoption Here’s a surprise. Facebook hired a PR agency, Burson-Marsteller, to smear Google… Oh wait. Facebook says they were just placing… 0 May 20, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Is Classic “Brand Advertising” Right for Your Brand? The advertising and marketing industry has let the term “Brand Advertising” come to mean “the only advertising that builds brand”.… 0 May 16, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The New (Old) Truth: Mass Media is the Key to Building Brands For some time, marketing has been dominated by the theory that the way to success is getting your most loyal… 0 May 5, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Do You Insult Consumer Intelligence With Entertainment Value? I wrote recently about the advertising business’s mis-understanding of the idea of “likability”. I think we have a similar problem… 0 April 29, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Human Value of Effective Advertising There are a lot of people running around right now with utopian theories of advertising that suggest it’s most effective… 0 April 26, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Does “Likability” Create Advertising That Consumers Hate? Long ago studies began to suggest that advertising tends to be more effective when it’s “likable”. And very quickly, likability… 0 April 13, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Humanity, Humility, Statistics & Brands. Thoughts About “How Brands Grow” by Byron Sharp For all the grand ad agency theorizing about brands, it’s ironic that the most human sense of brands that I’ve… 0 March 25, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email More Research Shows DVR’s (e.g. TiVO) Increase Advertising Impact! Unless you’ve been isolated on a 15 year space mission, you know that the ad business has spend 15 years… 0 March 2, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Reading the Fossil Record: Why Mobile Retail Tracking Can’t Replace Focus Group Research There was a post on Retail Wire this morning that pondered whether retailers will need traditional research once mobile tracking… 0 February 17, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Squirrel! Advertising Agencies Chase Utopian Theories There’s nobody easier to sell to than other salesmen. Unless, of course, you’re promising a consumer revolution to advertising agencies.… 0 February 14, 2011