Fuel Lines
APRIL 21, 2016
“We need to stop SELLING and start TELLING.” Your agency is probably already pretty good at storytelling. But how about story-teaching? Park Howell founded Park&Co , an award-winning brand and creative consultancy, in 1995 in Phoenix, Az. The agency ignites the growth of purpose-driven people, products, companies and causes through the power of storytelling.
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APRIL 25, 2016
It was bound to happen after the appointment of Brit Steve Easterbrook to head McDonald’s but the fast food giant, now showing some signs of revival after a moribund few years, is finally reviewing its creative account. In North America for starters but likely to be the rest of the world too. McDonald’s, as is.
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Gods of Advertising
APRIL 19, 2016
In my last job, I was asked by a colleague to take down a Facebook post because it apparently offended someone in the office. I had offered a less than politically correct view on the hot button issue regarding race relations (or lack of) in America. Reluctantly, I removed the post. Not because I rethought my position and came to the conclusion I was wrong.
InMobi
APRIL 27, 2016
Game Developers Conference 2016 took place recently in San Francisco, and boy was it a great one! InMobi hosted and moderated a panel with some of the top gaming publishers in the world, including Michael McHale , General Manager of Glu Games, Henry Lowenfels , VP of Biz Dev at Scopely, and Amit Khanduja , CEO of Reliance Games. The panelists represented some of the largest publishers in the industry, while the majority of the audience was made up of indie developers and representatives from sma
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
AdPulp
APRIL 4, 2016
Online marketing techniques and standards are constantly changing. Something that seemed extremely innovative last year, becomes obsolete today, giving place to the brand new digital engagement experience. If you are a web-store owner, you have to live with this harsh reality, whether you like it or not. In order to survive and lead your e-Commerce […].
All About Advertising Law
APRIL 28, 2016
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking comment on the disclosure, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements of its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The deadline for public comment is June 13, 2016. The FTC’s recent notice invites public comments on four issues: Whether the TSR’s disclosure, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements are necessary, and whether the resulting information is useful; The accuracy of the FTC’s estimates regarding the burden that such information
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APRIL 22, 2016
Halifax has been regaling us for years with not-so-heavenly choirs hymning the praises of its various offers. It was probably quite hard to change the theme to something more adventurous as the bank (now owned by Lloyds) recovered from the brink of extinction in the banking crisis. But adam&eveDDB has clearly been putting its thinking.
Gods of Advertising
APRIL 22, 2016
Lovely but is it also tacky? The unexpected death of prince created a maelstrom of activity in the social spheres. Not surprisingly, a bunch of brands wanted to, ahem, pay their respects as well. I definitely agree with Adfreak in that some fared better than others. Yes, to the Minnesota Viking’s (Prince’s home state) understated salute. Definitely no, to the props from Hamburger Helper.
InMobi
APRIL 25, 2016
We recently hosted an online hangout with India’s leading mobile-first companies, as part of the inDecode series, discussing what’s on everyone’s minds - Native Advertising. As part of the session, I also had an interesting Q&A with Jasjit Singh, Director of Product Management at Mobikwik, on his experience and insights on native ad monetization.
Advertising to Baby Boomers
APRIL 19, 2016
Another fusillade, a volley of déjà vus. And it’s sort of like being in The Twilight Zone , or if that reference is too antediluvian for you, Groundhog Day , or if that reference is too antediluvian for you, there’s got to be plenty of recent movies and TV shows I’ve never heard of with similar plots or themes. The grey market Older consumers will reshape the business landscape Apr 9th 2016 … The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister organisation to The Economist, found that only 31% of firms it
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All About Advertising Law
APRIL 28, 2016
The Office of the New York Attorney General entered into a $500,000 settlement with Walgreens last week over false pricing information in its Walgreens and Duane Reade stores in New York. By kolijoriverhouse [ CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons The New York Attorney General began investigating Walgreens’ advertising and pricing practices in early 2014.
Fuel Lines
APRIL 1, 2016
If I were the owner of an advertising, digital or media agency, to build my agency’s brand, I would WRITE! This isn’t a new discovery for me. Since the beginning, I’ve written my way into a thriving new business consultancy. My blog provides a consistent flow of inbound leads. I’ve never had to make a cold call for any new business.
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APRIL 11, 2016
UK supermarket disrupter Aldi has decided to keep its creative account with McCann Manchester following a pitch involving M&C Saatchi, Mother, Havas and J. Walter Thompson. Cue much gnashing of teeth in London’s advertising parlours – and relief at McCann. Of all the supermarket accounts to come up recently Aldi was the big one; a.
Gods of Advertising
APRIL 14, 2016
A while back, in the Admiral’s Club at Laguardia airport, this youngster caught my attention. Regular looking kid, a bit disheveled in his ill-fitting blue sweatshirt and no-name blue jeans. But something marked him apart: a striped cap with a propeller on top! Wow. I remember thinking he’s safe here but that goofy cap would be a death sentence in the schoolyard -certainly in the ones I attended.
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InMobi
APRIL 5, 2016
Originally published on Internet Retailer. The combination of social media and mobile devices has become a way of life in China. A lesser-known ancient Chinese proverb translates as “Dig the well before you’re thirsty.” In many ways, this beautifully illustrates the secret behind the mind-boggling success of mobile commerce in China. China is the world’s largest smartphone and e-commerce market, and some believe that China is an entire decade ahead of the West when it comes to mobile commerce.
Fuel Lines
APRIL 6, 2016
Creating and maintaining agency new business is often harder than it should be because one key ingredient is often missing. I was recently included in RSW/US Thought Leader panel. Along with providing questions for their Thought Leader survey itself, each panelist provided Agency New Business advice and participated in an interview with RSW/US Owner and President, Mark Sneider.
Fuel Lines
APRIL 30, 2016
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APRIL 8, 2016
Rhode Island is running a tourism campaign called ‘Cooler and Warmer’ so Havas PR (cue trouble) was commissioned to make a film using stock footage (cue more trouble). Havas roped in small local agency IndieWhip to put it all together. Which they did with the insertion of a skateboarding scene filmed in, er, Iceland. It.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
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APRIL 22, 2016
Prostitution and France are indelibly linked, usually in a sort of faux joie de vivre. The great Hollywood musical Gigi is about young girl, played by Leslie Caron, who is trained as a courtesan, an upmarket prostitute basically. Albeit one who confines her activities to one ‘gentleman’ at a time. Maurice Chevalier, playing an ageing.
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APRIL 15, 2016
FCB Inferno has won Npower, one of the big UK energy suppliers, from McCann Manchester. Npower is owned by Germany’s RWE. McCann ran a campaign featuring comedians but this was never likely to cut the mustard for a huge company operating in a politically charged business environment. FCB competed against against BBH, Karmarama and Mother.
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APRIL 1, 2016
More cause stuff, this time it’s about homelessness courtesy of an initiative and execution from FCB Inferno. Magazine The Big Issue is famous for its contribution to the cause but it’s getting a bit tired – people don’t seem to want magazines these days, wherever the money goes. Our appetite for ‘barista’ coffee grows exponentially.
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APRIL 20, 2016
Specsavers, which now has a growing hearing aid business too, is famous for producing its (mostly excellent) advertising in-house. But now it’s gone outside for its digital account, appointing Possible London to “apply service design to create the next evolution of digital services across all its channels.” Possible started life as a hotchpotch of digital.
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In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
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APRIL 1, 2016
The&Partnership’s Johnny Hornby is leading the charge against ad fraud – in the UK at least – and heading up Hornby’s posse is chief technology officer Ross Barnes. Here’s Barnes on the Beeb with some hair-raising tales about the evil bots and the amount of advertiser money they purloin – $10-15bn he reckons.
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APRIL 28, 2016
It’s not that often that an independent London agency creates an international campaign (Leagas Delaney makes a speciality of it) but Will London is launching one such – ‘AfriCAN’ – for African telecoms company Liquid Telecom. The campaign will run in a number of African countries on large outdoor formats, in print and the internet.
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APRIL 26, 2016
Adam&eveDDB is launching its first global campaign – ‘Every Last Child’ – for charity Save The Children. The agency has worked with STC in the UK since 2010. Media for the three-year campaign is by the7Stars. The campaign, shot in numerous hotspots including Jordan, Mexico, Bangladesh, Kenya and an emergency treatment centre for ebola in.
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APRIL 26, 2016
Danone is launching its first global campaign for kids’ brand Danonino through Y&R and it’s following in the footsteps of other brands – like Persil’s ‘Dirt is Good,’ – by empowering the little blighters. Other WPP agencies are also involved.
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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
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APRIL 6, 2016
Will we end up with the world’s big media accounts being handled by just two entities: WPP’s GroupM and Omnicom’s OMG? Publicis Groupe, Interpublic (in the US), Dentsu/Aegis and others would violently disagree but that’s the way it seems to be going. Ad Age reports that Walmart, which announced it was leaving Publicis-owned Mediavest last.
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APRIL 20, 2016
YouTube – which is owned by Google of course – is claiming that new research shows that ROI (return on investment) is greater on its channel than on conventional TV, which should set the thinkers at TV marketing body Thinkbox thinking. The finding emerges from what YouTube calls a ‘meta-analysis’ of 56 case studies across.
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APRIL 14, 2016
In case anyone had forgotten, the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity is gearing up for action in June and the first gong – Creative Marketer of the Year – has gone to Samsung Electronics. As indeed it probably should given that the Korean giant, by some estimates, has the world’s biggest marketing budget at around.
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APRIL 20, 2016
Women are sending a message to the sports marketing industry. Time will tell whether anyone’s listening. Women want to play sport, watch sport and when asked, they are more inclined than men to see sport as a force for good within society. Hardly earth shattering news, yet the market for sport sponsorship can often appear.
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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.
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