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Branded Content - Optimising For Brand Impact From Development To Measurement
Content is king, or is it context? One thing for sure is the framework for successful branded content is resonance for people with the Content, Platform and Brand.
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Branded Content: Emperor’s New Clothes or the Future of Marketing?
Attempts at interpreting branded content straddle the wire of native advertising and advertorials before falling in to the abyss of general advertising – so what is it exactly and what does it offer that traditional channels do not already deliver?
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The Most Influential Brands in Canada 2015
Now in its fifth year, the results of our 2015 Most Influential Brands of Canada study show a modest shuffling in the upper echelon and one new entry to the Top Ten list.
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Who’s Killing Creativity Now?
Market research has long been accused of killing creativity. Many in the creative world now look back with nostalgia to the days when market research was the point of contention. With so much more data available now and so many exciting applications for it, data and creative are at loggerheads.
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The Reputation Council report 2015
Established in 2009, the Reputation Council brings together senior communicators from some of the most respected corporations in the world. The Reputation Council’s mission is to increase understanding of the issues and challenges facing communicators in the corporate environment, as well as capturing expert views on key trends, issues and events in the wider world.
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Moving Past the Tweak to Uncover the Optimal
The Quest for Optimal - Maximising consumer delight has always been a top priority for any product manufacturer, resulting in a critical need for ongoing innovation married with endless product modifications. Yet, while a priority, it continues to be increasingly difficult to steal share or truly differentiate oneself versus competition within an existing and/or niche category. Unfortunately, reactive versus proactive research has become more of the product testing norm, with endless rounds of formula ‘tweaking’ versus the prescriptive pursuit of a farther out, more differentiated optimal product.
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Digital Migration - Are We Ready?
The media landscape in Africa is constantly evolving, and one of the most significant changes is the ongoing digital transition from analogue to digital TV.
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Pisa VS Florence: the Two Ways to Make a Brand Attractive
Both Florence and Pisa attract over one million visitors every year, but not at all for the same reasons.
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Nature VS. Nurture - Can You Change Your Innovation’s Destiny?
The great innovation debate - “Nature vs. Nurture” is a debate typically held among psychologists, where one side argues that genetic predisposition (nature) plays a greater role in human personality development and the other side argues that the environment (nurture) has more influence.