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Will Data & Creative Come Together?

he rise of ‘big data’ has seen marketers mining all sorts of databases to learn more about their customers. Now both clients and agencies have spotted greater opportunities to bring data to the heart of creative development. – Warc 2016 Tools Report

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brands defining time

Time has flown by once again and the semester comes to a close. I begin every semester (and almost every class for that matter) with a bit of a pit in my stomach. I want to teach each class a bit differently and ensure that we go beyond the textbook and learn from not only […]

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3 Tips for Finding Consumer Insight Gems

Understanding Consumers So What? Similar strategy as the “Convince_(target audience) that (they should behave/think/do)____because____(brand value prop of brand) statement” that we discussed in class.

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Marketers Expanding In-House Ad-Buying Resources | Agency News – AdAge

More marketers are growing their in-house ad-buying capabilities as a result of heigtened concern around fraud and transparency Source: Marketers Expanding In-House Ad-Buying Resources | Agency News – AdAge

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Customer Service as a Marketing Tool

Great customer service is all well and good – but brands should be taking the opportunity to surprise and delight, explains Joel Windels. Source: Customer Service as a Marketing Tool

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Apple Irony

Apple’s Reality The Apple brand persona as pioneering and independent began in the 1984 Super Bowl commercial, which was centered around the Orwellian concept of ‘big brother’ and showed Macintosh computers as a means to resist oppression.(Creating Powerful Brands; Chernatony, McDonald, Wallace) Research  found that Mac users are ‘active, avant garde and early adopters positioning them as […]

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Customer Motivation

“From study conducted 36 top marketers, one-third did not get consumer motivation right – and they are some of the best marketers in the business.” From What Sticks by Rex Briggs and Greg Stuart. WHY???????

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