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Mountain Dew’s virtual reality skate experience

This week, Mountain Dew’s use of Oculus Rift tech caught Joss Davidge's eye.
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The trouble with brand love

Most brand managers want their brand to evoke strong feelings. We naturally want our customers to like the brand, to feel attached to it. Books have been written and careers have been built on the idea of brand love.
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Marketing for Halloween - top 5 campaigns from 2014

This week, the experiential offerings surrounding Halloween caught Joss Davidge's eye.
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How to position your Agency

It is one of life’s divine little ironies that Ad agencies, for the most part, are not very good at marketing themselves.
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Judging, fast and slow

When I was at client I used to urge my team to judge ideas by reacting like a consumer.
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Why Beijing’s hipsters are too cool for a European-themed bar street

Take the Beijing subway one station past the Guomao Zhan (or International Trade Station) stop. From there, walk outside and hail an autorickshaw driver. Tell him you want to go south.
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Beefeater plays on its Britishness in experiential campaign

Beefeater is the only international brand still producing its gin in London. The brand is evidently – and rightly - very proud of its heritage and let Belgians know that this summer with its London Calling campaign.
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Are modern leaders good enough?

I have been invited to a dinner discussion that intrigues me.  The question to be discussed with the assemblage – quite a high-powered one including a Lord, a Dame and a couple of high quality business academics – is this:
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What’s more important – media or creative?

The debate of supremacy between the medium and the message is as old as the industry itself. It certainly seems to have been going on forever.
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The Perfect Storm – media fragmentation and growth

Keith Weed, CMO at Unilever suggests the tides have turned and the perfect storm of media fragmentation...
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