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Technology Comes to Shape us. Let’s Act on it!
It’s obvious that we have been using technology for centuries to shape our lives. But in order for a brand to succeed, it is at least as important to understand that the opposite happens just as well. As philosopher Alva Noe states: "Technologies organize our lives in a way that makes it impossible to imagine this life in their absence, they make us who we are."
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When Trust Falls Down How Brands Got Here and What They Need To Do About It
In this paper we’ll outline what we have identified as the four key reasons we are seeing a crisis in trust, and importantly what brands and advertising needs to do to rebuild that trust.
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Employer branding – corporate reputation and the war for talent
Having a strong employer brand is crucial to corporate reputation, giving companies not only a recruitment edge in the growing talent war but also the highest-quality long-term ambassadors to deliver on their brand promises. Employees are more demanding than ever when it comes to what they expect from their employer but this is not purely down to Millennials; employees at all life stages want a career with a deeper purpose. Getting it wrong and failing to deliver on the employee brand expectation can have consequences that extend well beyond employees; consumers too are demanding more from corporates.
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The Map to Brand Growth
Whether it’s the I'm Lovin' It jingle or the Golden Arches that make you think of McDonald's they are both examples of salience, and salience sells.
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The Age of the Algorithm
It is hard to find a major audience measurement service that does not employ statistical wizardry of one sort or another. From simple weighting of survey results to correct for sample imbalances to modelling the audiences to hard-to-measure media, the use of statistics and algorithms is increasing. In this White Paper, Andrew Green and Mario Paic explore some of these techniques.
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#NotaJoke. Branded Entertainment Oscar Style
February is a prime month for American brands looking to capitalise on two of the largest television audiences of the year – the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards. Unfortunately for the teams behind Best Picture winner Moonlight, and the incorrectly announced Best Picture winner La La Land, Price Waterhouse Coopers’ mishandling of the Best Picture Award winner envelope has overshadowed most all of the stories to emerge from the evening’s events.
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What Shoppers Really Want: Latest Omnichannel Strategies
Over the past 20 years the shopping experience of consumers has changed drastically in the course of digitalisation. Today, shoppers can buy wherever and whenever they like.
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Confessions of the Admen
In all walks of life and throughout history, people have projected their own worldview onto their surroundings to help better understand it: we also tend to use mental shortcuts (heuristics) to help us make decisions, but these can often be misinformed and ill-judged.