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Diamonds Are No Longer Forever - Putting Emotion to Work for your Brands
The Diamond Producers Association recently released a new set of ads. They reintroduce the idea of diamonds to the relationships and aspirations of Millennials. This is a group for whom “forever” is a meaningless concept along with tradition, eternity and commitment. Their focus is the journey, not the destination.
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Building Stronger Brands
Brands exist in a constantly changing world. But the role brands play in people’s lives has not changed and people themselves change more slowly.
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More Than Words - Harnessing The Language of Images Across Social Media Platforms
With the rapid rise of visual language, it is becoming increasingly important for both researchers and brands to understand how to unpick and analyse this new vocabulary; deconstructing the discourse, to stay ahead of the curve.
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Advertising, Reality, the World – According To Pokémon Go
How Pokémon Go reflects current global trends, people’s current aspirations, and how brands can successfully embrace these changes.
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Effective Communications Begin With the Brand
We all remember great ads. But do we remember the company? This is the No. 1 aim for advertising, but, surprisingly, many marketers don’t achieve it. The reason is the brand is not front-and-center. Marketers must start with the brand in the earliest conception stage, and weave it throughout the storyline architecture at opportune points. There are several tried and true techniques to ensure success. This Point of View paper addresses those approaches— crucial to effective advertising.
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Olympic Games - The Reality of Rio - Was this really #Apocolympics Now?
Or were the Games the catalyst for a fresh look and a new tone to the link between sponsors, organisers, audience and athletes that reflects the participative nature of brands and citizenship in the connected world?
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Olympic Games - Who Else is Going for Gold in Rio?
Sponsors join athletes aiming for the podium. The bar was set on August 12, 2012 – and it was set high. The numbers were: 3.6 Billion, 100,000, 500 and 220.
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Who Thinks About Christmas in July? Advertisers, of Course
Not to be outdone by the Super Bowl held every winter in the USA, the UK has its own annual advertising event - or is it an advertising season? The Daily Telegraph has called it an “arms race.” Shortly before the holidays the buzz begins as advertisers, primarily large retailers, seed their annual holiday creative online.
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Cracking Social: How To Connect Meaningfully With Audiences on Social Media
It is clear, that when it comes to connecting meaningfully with audiences on social media, there is still a lot to learn. At Ipsos we’ve been exploring how brands can maximise their impact in this space. Our starting point was in depth examination of the people who are getting it right in order to identify what we can learn from them.
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It’s a Mad, Mad, MAdTech World
As the lines between media, advertising and technology blur, marketers, content creators and consumers are changing.