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Differences between the sexes: it's all in the brain

brain

The feminist agenda has been with us for over 30 years and we might have thought the subject was well

Shopper marketing - the key to unlocking growth in a recession

key

During these difficult economic times, the key is to ensure that consumers not only continue to want use your brand

Five secrets to brand success

success

Brands and branding have endured for years, centuries in fact. And despite dire predictions from some pundits, there really is

If marketing continues to fly under the radar, it’s going to experience a very unpleasant crash

jeremy bullmore Marketing Leader

BACK IN 1955, starbursts were a sort of communications prophylactic. The Television Bill had been lengthily and fiercely debated: it

What price continuity in a short-term world?

world

Demands for change, newness and freshness are constant in business, and balancing the short term and long term is a

A champion of ‘behind the- line’ marketing

Mike Hoban Market Leader 2008

Judie Lannon interviews MIKE HOBAN, customer and brand marketing director of Scottish Widows, about his experience of bringing marketing

Constantly changing design required in Asian markets

Market Leader Spring 2010

There are always detractors when a high-profile brand takes a risk and does something a bit different – or heaven

Editorial: Barriers to innovation

Market Leader Winter 2010

We have looked at innovation a number of times, but in the cover story of this issue John Kearon takes

The art and science of marketing

science

Diageo Marketing Director, PHILIP ALMOND talks to Judie Lannon about his career in marketing and how the culture, values and

A seasonal guide to insulting people…

Market Leader January 2012

We know what we think about brands. But what do brands think of us? Jeremy Bullmore speculates

I’ve written about

It’s time to stop looking on the bright side

stop

We need more case histories of brand failures, says Rory Sutherland

You know those women who occasionally hang around outside

‘Eventful’ spaces can provide a creative platform

creative

The traditional connection between ‘marketing’ and ‘events’ is a curiously dysfunctional one. It conjures images of the cavalier executive impulsively

Fail fast and fix it

fast

IN AGILE MARKETING Anthony Freeling successfully combines theory and practice and comes up with a neat concept. Agility is something

2011: The year of the desperate optimist

optimistic

Ben Hayman urges brands to acknowledge consumers’ needs for optimism, against the odds

As An avid football fan, I know

A new view of the future media landscape

compass - Market Leader 2011

Forecasting is always difficult in periods of disruption – and the communication environment is in just such a situation. C

Business models and a revised big bang theory

Market Leader 2011

IN RESPONSE  to C John Brady’s feature ‘A new view of the future of media landscape’ (Market Leader Q1

Evolution of technology services

phone

LAURIE YOUNG is a leader – and writer of several books – in UK professional services marketing and his co-author

In praise of scepticism

praise

Jeremy Bullmore says we shouldn’t worry if people are sceptical about marketing, it’s scepticism about the police that should concern

Think before you link...

link

Keith Lucas looks at the dangers of alienating consumers with inappropriate product tie-ins

What does the man who plays a

Marketing is the boss

market

JUDIE LANNON: Let's start by talking about how you got into marketing in the first place? Was it by design

How brand equity metrics drive brand strategy

Market Leader Autumn 2009

On Friday 2 April 1993, Philip Morris cut the price of Marlboro cigarettes by 20%, to compete with generic cigarette