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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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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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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.