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Few Millennials Follow 'Rules of the Road'
Nearly one in five Millennials say they often engage in the road-rage inducing practice of “slowing down to annoy or educate people who want them to move over.” Eight in ten said they were an above average driver.
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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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Vietnam’s Meat Market: Mind the Gap!
As the world’s 14th most populated country, Vietnam and its 94 million people are increasing their livestock consumption as they experience higher income and population growth. Despite the relatively stable growing trend of livestock production over the past few years, meat output has not managed to keep up with the current consumption demand.
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Smarten Up! Neuromarketing Is Getting More Intelligent
Understanding what makes people tick has always been at the center of marketing. For decades, Ipsos and others have left no stone unturned in the quest to fathom consumer behavior and take marketing to a new and better level. Yet, as every marketing professional knows, data from surveys, focus groups, point of sale, credit cards, click behavior, and even beacons can only go so far.
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Affluents Don't Spend Like Bill Gates
In 2016 Bill Gates, just like in 2015, was the richest man in the world. The American business magazine Forbes estimated his assets at $75 billion, that's $4.2 billion less than the year before. Yet the former CEO of Microsoft is not known as an icon of luxury and high living, large yachts and expensive cars are not for Gates! His preference is towards charity projects and the funding of medical research.
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Big Data, Product Reviews and Behavioural Economics
In today’s hyper connected world, consumers have the opportunity to review products, services, retailers and just about anything and everything. If we need an opinion of something, it likely exists online. Websites such as Yelp, Trip Advisor and Amazon have given consumers a platform to share their feedback quickly and easily. These reviews are important to marketers because consumers trust and use them as an input into the purchase decision process. In short, they have a real impact.
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Is Pokémon GO Taking Over People’s Lives in Canada?
Three in ten (29%) Pokémon GO players agree it’s “taking over their life”, they’ve skipped day-to-day activities (29%) or missed school or work to play (16%). Two in ten (19%) Canadians aged 13+ have downloaded it, played 2 hours a day on average, and have walked 13 KM in total.
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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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The new lubricant trade in ASEAN - A promising new era
Global lubricant markets have seen a dramatic rebound since the global economic recession of 2008–2009. At that time, global demand dipped to its lowest point since the latter half of the 20th century, but has since surpassed its previous high mark set in 2007. One of the key drivers of this rebound can be attributed to Asia, where the developing economies of emerging markets are fueling the rising demand for lubricants.
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Doing The Right Thing: A Checklist for Successful Corporate Sustainability Programmes
Corporations have a great ability to ‘do good’ in the world – even more so than governments, given the wealth of resources and freedom they have to innovate outside of bureaucratic structures. Some would argue that, beyond an ability to do good, corporations have a responsibility to do good.