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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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“We’re in the IT business and you want to call us a fruit!?!”
What characterizes a good brand name? What’s the best way to brief your creative agency for your next product launch?
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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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A Closer Look At Behavioural Economics And Concept Testing For CPG
Consumers and shoppers are purposeful and will more likely act consistently with their underlying preferences and motivations. This is what makes consumers neatly or broadly rational. Rationality does not assume consumers are conscious of their preferences, motives and decision processes. Consumers operating under System 1 may not always make the most consistent choices but that doesn’t make them in essence irrational consumers.
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Harnessing Complexity: Companion Diagnostics in Oncology
As an increasing number of drugs gain approval for patients whose cancers have certain molecular characteristics, the promise of truly personalised medicine is edging closer towards reality.
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Asia’s Millennials Want to Connect With Brands
When it comes to marketing to the Millennial generation across Asia, brands must be authentic and relevant. This was the consensus from a recent panel session on understanding young people in the region, held by the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.
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Flair Colombia 2016 - A Strong Desire to Succeed
The former home of Pablo Escobar is now a theme park. This image is the best way to summarise the gap between the stereotypes and the reality. Of course, it is not a bed of roses, but with a good growth since ten years, a new positioning as membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a new hope thanks to the peace with the guerrillas and a investments’ plan of 25 billion US Dollars, lot of things are moving.
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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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2015 China Luxury Forecast
Positive consumer dynamics will continue to drive Chinese shoppers as the world’s number one luxury force. The China Luxury Forecast surveys luxury consumers in the mainland China and Hong Kong. This is the most detailed survey in Greater China looking at the behaviors and attitudes in the luxury sector.