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An Epidemic Of Losers
Awards And Contests Are Easy Engagement, But Are They Smart Marketing?

Reverse Logic
Consumers Should Be Smarter Shoppers Today, But Are They?

Walmarting The Category
Does P&G's Plan To Slash Prices And Grab Share Spells The End Of Its Brands

Museums: The Past As Prologue
There's A Great Opportunity To Get Back Into The Curiosity Cabinet Business

Anarchy in the UI
Is It Possible To Discover Truth Without Trust?

Slaughter All Avatars!
Real-Timing Game Design Suggests Ideas For Real-Time Marketing

In Dire Need Of Hope
Brands Should Make Time Slow Down By Giving Us Things Worth Remembering

GM's Big Idea
Even The Best Super Bowl Ad Won't Take The Place Of Doing Something Differently

Where Have I Seen That Face Before?
Ads Need To Borrow From Social & Social From Ads In Order To Be True

Passive Aggressive Branding
BP's Announced Scale Back From Some Clean Up Ops Means It Doesn't Understand Its Branding Challenge

Stop Laughing
Belittling Even The Nuttiest Political Comments Doesn't Help The Conversation

Interruption vs. Engagement, Revised
My Advertising Age Column Started a Debate, Which Continues Here

Losing Our Religion
Financial Reform Doesn't Automatically Translate Into Renewed Investor Faith

Now What?
Old Spice Needs to Translate Awareness Into Sales

Abbreviated Meaning
Shorter And Faster Isn't Necessarily Better Or More Truthful

Is Love Enough?
ESPN's New Ad Campaign Touts Love of Sports, But Shouldn't It Tell Us More?

Scary Good
Allstate's New Mayhem Campaign Is Great Advertising

Incomprehensible
Why Do So Many Brands Do Such a Bad Job of Communicating?

In Praise of Sloth
What If We Looked At Brand Engagement As Unconscious Routine?

The Ad Cannes Job
Advertising Awards Signal The Industry Is Still Kidding Itself

Bebo, Anyone?
The World Could Use a Different Social Networking Service, Couldn't It?

Christmas In June
Old Marketing Ideas Are Made New When They're Right

Not Fade Away
Why Does Old Rock Music Get Used In Current Marketing?

The Social Shibboleth
It's Time To Talk Openly and Plainly About The Social Opportunity

An Advertising Reformation?
Are We At The Threshold of Better & Smarter Solutions For Customer Conversations?

Haunted By Dancing Khakis
Gap Is Searching For Yet Another Ad Agency, Only Will It Help?

Smoking Pot in a Fishbowl
Another HBR Story Waxing Poetic About Social Media Makes Me Sick

Could Pabst Be Too Cool?
Can Any Brand Stay Ahead of Popular Trends?

The Ad That Went Bad
I Thought The Purpose of Marketing Was to Sell?

Do Everything, Say Nothing
PG&'s Dawn Dish Soap Faces An Intriguing and Dicey Branding Opportunity

Political Parties Are Archaic Social Media
Candidates Are Accountable, But Accountable To What?

Surviving the Reign of Social Media
P&G's Pampers Dry Max Is The Latest To Suffer The Terror of the Crowd

The Land of Lost Brands
Have Dell & Starbucks Forgotten What Made Them Great?

I Hate the Word "Content"
Aren't we less "content creators" and more "sales enablers?"

Windmills in a Hurricane
Financial services firms are contrasting themselves against imaginary evils vs. communicating real strengths

For Want of a Switch
The Gulf Disaster Brings BP's "Beyond Petroleum" Branding Front and Center

PowerPoint Makes Us Stupid
How is it That All Of Human History Was Ably Planned & Delivered Without Complicated Slides?

Say Hello to Mass Media 2.0?
Reckitt Benckiser Buys Web Video Like TV in the 1950s...And It Just Might Work!

How Low Can You Go?
RyanAir and Spirit Lead Airlines in Race to the Bottom

In With The Old, Out With The New
Twitter and MySpace Give Us Glimpses of the Past & Future Of the Social Web

A Black & White Decision
Jasper Fforde's New Novel Is Mostly Incomprehensible, But He's Still a Genius

Tsk Tsk Tiger
Nike's New Spot Is a Fine Example To Other Brands: Just Don't Do It

Facebook & Siebel: A Tale of Two Decades
Thought imperfect, the parallels between these two companies suggest there's a reckoning a'coming

AT&T's Breakout Strategy
It doesn't have to resign itself to losing iPhone customers later this year.

You've Got To Be Kidding
Vanguard's New Branding Ad Must Be An April Fool's Joke

iPad Ads A Game Changer?
Will heavy buys on the product launch evidence new ad meaning, relevance & utility

Brands As Sausage Factories
What if consumers start demanding visibility into every corner of your business?

Deju Vu, All Over Again
Why Aren't Finanical and Oil Brands Telling Us Anything New?

Squeaky Wheel Marketing
Pepsi's announcement to skip schools isn't genuine & it's bad marketing

Marketing Can't Be Controlled By a Dashboard
Managing digital data is important, but your broader strategy matters much more

In Recognition of Good Taste
Domino's Dared to Admit Its Pizza Needed Improving & Then Sold a Lot of Them

Green With Ennui
Why Should Brands Invest in Sustainability?


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