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Brands should heed this warning: Be careful with culture in advertising
Don’t be like Bud Light — unless you have a billion to spare!
What would you do if you woke up to find out that you’ve lost over a billion dollars? You probably would never go back to sleep.
Five Influencer Marketing Tips for 2023
Influencer marketing is nothing new. In fact, it dates to the 18th century. But it’s evolved greatly, and you may need an influencer marketing agency to navigate the new reality. Today, influencer marketing is the word on the street throughout the social media world.
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Scratch me behind the ears. Chewy does — with something called positioning alignment.
A picture is worth a thousand loyal customers every week. We want to call out Chewy for a job well done and celebrate this positioning alignment. Pets mean a lot to their owners. And Chewy has come to mean a lot to those people.
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Market Positioning and the Context Filter: Stanley vs. Kodak
In a recent planning session for our 50th anniversary events, I was surprised to learn that our senior project manager had specified a Stanley mug for our kickoff celebration swag bag. I’m a Yeti fan, so this choice raised my curiosity. I might have even expected Hydro Flask.
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The Good Bad & Ugly of Bed Bath & Beyond – Positioning in Business
The other evening, my wife and I were discussing the recent bad news about Bed Bath & Beyond. Bemoaning the fact that this time it probably is the end (bankruptcy usually is), she ran to the store to get the last of a few products she typically buys there.
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AI-Powered Marketing – The Latest Disruption
If you’ve been around long enough, you remember the days when it was declared, “The internet is going to replace books!” When this was proclaimed, I worked at a book publisher (1993-94), and the owner feared he would be out of business within five years due to this proclamation by…
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How a UX Design Agency Impacts Your Greatest Marketing Tool
These days, before someone ever visits your actual store or looks at your product in person, there is almost 100% certainty they took a moment to look up your website.
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Dilemma of the day: How to reach your target audience
In the era of digital marketing, many have come to believe marketing is as simple as plugging in your desired audience and watching the results flow. Our recent discussion with the Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams, though has us rethinking the expense and effectiveness of limiting your audience.
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CTV Advertising – Can It Be Your New Marketing BFF?
For years, the promise of Connected TV’s (CTV) rise to prominence was predicted. Today, there’s no more prediction, just reality. According to Statista, in 2023, 88% of US TV households have at least one internet-connected device.
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It’s a dog-eat-dog world: the rise of challenger brand advertising
There have always been brands like McDonalds, Nike, and Amazon, that dominate the headspace of consumers. Despite massive control of their respective markets, this shield isn’t entirely impenetrable. Challenger brand advertising has historically found gaps in their armor by bringing attention to consumer desires left unsatisfied.
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