My Good Friend Charles..

I always tell anyone who listens (and even those who don’t) that the best thing by far about blogging is the people you meet, some of those people become your friends and some of your friends become really close friends. And when an awesome friend gets a great new job abroad, one that they’ve [...]

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Distributing Shock

 I’m quite late to comment on Marilyn Manson, he’s been around for years and everyone has mentioned that he’s a marketing genius but I quite fancied a brain dump on him. I’ve been watching his videos of late and using some of them as stimulus in certain briefings as they really capture the dark side [...]

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Half A Million Minutes In

It’s already been a year and I’m surprised, but in a good way. The kind of surprise you get when something you’re selling on eBay goes for higher than you had hoped. You were selling it and expected to get something for it, but perhaps are a little taken aback by how much you ended [...]

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We Got Props

This is hugely self-indulgent, but hey if I can’t do that here, on my very own cyber-soapbox then where can I?
Daniel over at AdStructure came up with a way to rank the top 27 blogs of people under 27 and surprisingly (for us) we were in it! Number 15 to be exact. It’s nice to [...]

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Brand Innovation vs Brand Image

 

Firstly, is it boring to talk about how agencies need to change, how the structure put in place in the 1950s might not be the best way to handle such a fragmented 2007 and that possible conspiracy theory that if agencies were honest the whole industry would crack at the top due to the severe [...]

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Is This What We’ve Become?

 
Shopping to live? 

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Visiting Home

 
I’m off home tonight, to the majestic city that is Newcastle. I hardly ever get to spend a long weekend there and as a result it makes it extra special when getting there i.e. the bars I would fall in and out of a student, all my friends who I grew with outside of work [...]

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The Sausage Not the Sizzle

Advanced apologies regarding the analogy, I’ll explain. I’ve recently just come out of what can only be described as one of the most enlightening meetings with a planning mentor.
We tend to discuss advertising (well I do) here on blogs in very conceptual, consumer interacting ways which is obviously the sexy part of advertising theory and [...]

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