I Sea: Awards are not the purpose of advertising
I worked in the music industry for many years, with many globally renowned artists, songwriters, composers, producers and musicians, from Max Martin to Mutt Lange…
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I worked in the music industry for many years, with many globally renowned artists, songwriters, composers, producers and musicians, from Max Martin to Mutt Lange…
Continue reading →McDonald’s recently released a series of advertisements which are completely stripped of any branding, yet the brand is still instantly recognisable. The ads show a…
Continue reading →Everyone knows who Kim Kardashian is, unless of course you have been living under a very very large rock. Kim Kardashian is…. well famous for…
Continue reading →In the mid 90’s Bart Simpson sold his soul to Millhouse for a mere $5. After a series of calamities he realised that life isn’t…
Continue reading →Don’t go chasing social media likes or hashtag mentions. Answer people’s questions and intercept their category interest to your brand.
Continue reading →Yes, of course people hate those ugly video pre-rolls that appear before video content on YouTube or other video publisher sites. Video pre-rolls are totally…
Continue reading →The late Frank Thring once voiced a radio ad for Melbourne’s famous radio station, Triple R, dragging out his vowels and consonants in a very…
Continue reading →The Virus of Viral A new, virulent plague has afflicted communications agencies and marketing departments all over the world; one that’s based on the flimsy…
Continue reading →I’ve compiled a list of 20 trends for communicators for the next 12 months. Enjoy! 1. True Digital Communications What many people in our industry…
Continue reading →I am quoted towards the end of the piece: How Facebook and Twitter are changing the face of advertising. I said “Fair dinkum” in the Australian…
Continue reading →I have been quoted in a new piece in Campaign Asia Magazine on Social Gaming. Here’s a link to the piece: Campaign Asia April 11 Social…
Continue reading →Awards nights are about telling stories and creating stories. The Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards currently do neither. The night should change – make…
Continue reading →There’s a lot to be said about simplicity. It’s the sign that someone “gets it”. The simpler, the better. As Albert Einstein said: “Everything should…
Continue reading →How adland is cutting Big Media out of the future: a great piece from Wired on the Tribal DDB / Monopoly City Streets Massive Multiplayer…
Continue reading →How sick are we of telling another website what our name and details are? How sick are we of remembering our various passwords? How sick…
Continue reading →Why don’t more people use RSS? Let’s start at the beginning, with an answer to the question: “What is RSS?” The best way to describe it…
Continue reading →Watching this video of Coca-Cola’s new interactive vending machine, Anthony J Phillips, the Global Marketing Manager of Coca-Cola, talks about the “fantastic partnership between marketing,…
Continue reading →Google has released a fantastic new search option called Google Squared – it structures unstructured data, puts it in a table, and makes compiling lists…
Continue reading →I’m is quoted in this Patrick Stafford piece in SmartCompany. It’s about Twitter’s appalling churn rate of over 60%. Some of the reasons why Twitter’s retention…
Continue reading →Dominos Pizza has been embarrassed by a scandal where some employees of the business made a video that showed them doing some pretty disgusting things…
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