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The true cost of regular team meetings, and why we should care

Time is money but few organisations treat it that way. A junior person who can’t sign off a £1000 invoice...
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The old future of advertising

My mate Jon tweeted me this video of Iain Tate and I rambling on in Romania from 2007. Good times. We were quite hungover, me moreso I think.
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Mum's the word

With nearly 18 million mums in the UK alone, brands standing on a ‘mother knows best’ platform will not be viewed as perpetrating a cliché, they could be seen as out of touch with nearly every mum they are trying to reach.
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Beck’s’ playable music poster

This week, he takes a look at Beck’s latest experiential activation, a touch-sensitive, playable music poster.
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Advertising in Japan: What’s so funny?

It’s no secret that the advertising and marketing industries nurture some of society’s most innovative...
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The cowboy and the ruby lips

In the 1920s one of the Philip Morris’ leading brands of cigarettes was marketed to women as being as 'mild as May'.
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Three kinds of advertising

Direct response ads pay for themselves (at least they do when they work). Socially acceptable paid-for interruption leads to response, and the response (a sale, generally) generates revenue and you can run the ad again.
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Portugal's National Blood Bank and The Walking Dead

Teaming up with Portugal's national blood bank institute, IPST, The Walking Dead created ‘The Walking Dead Blood Store’, where donated blood was accepted as currency.
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Coca-Cola’s Happiness from the Skies

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, Coca-Cola really are at the front of the pack when it comes to experiential marketing.
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Ten (Creative Director) Commandments

I) I am the LORD OF CREATIVITY, who brought thee out of the desert, regardless of thine own so-called ‘efforts’. Thou shalt have no other creative directors before Me.
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