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We are the future of advertising

What follows isn’t a necessarily revolutionary concept, merely my account of how I interpret some of the brand interactions I have online.

If you’ve been logged into Google since October 26, 2009, you might have noticed your search results displaying a little differently. Since last fall, Google’s been experimenting with a feature they’re calling Social Search [...]

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Recession branding

Over at brandchannel, my favorite site on branding, Barry Silverstein writes about marketing to consumers during an economic downturn.
Silverstein recalls one of the fundamental paradoxes of marketing that I remember learning about in my early advertising classes. In his article, he quotes Harvard Business School professor John Quelch:
“Instead of cutting the market research budget, [...]

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Virtually doing things

While uploading my Nike+ data the other day, I came across an invitation for female Nike+ participants to join in what Nike is calling a “virtual marathon.” The basic premise is this: get participants to sign up for a half-marathon just like you normally would, complete with registration fees, a cause, timing and the [...]

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Branding, defined and updated

I’m reading a book right now by Alex Frankel, a writer for the New York Times, called “Wordcraft.”
In it, Frankel talks about the origins of branding and how much effect a name has on the success of a product. He claims that branding is the most important part of business– a product needs to [...]

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Good advertising.

I have always said that good advertising and good design can save the world. If they can’t do that, then they can at least make it a better place.
Upon reading my advertising blogs for the day today, I came across a guerilla campaign for a party supply store (think Party City or Party Pig). [...]

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