Think pieces

Mountain Dew’s virtual reality skate experience

This week, Mountain Dew’s use of Oculus Rift tech caught Joss Davidge's eye.

The trouble with brand love

Most brand managers want their brand to evoke strong feelings. We naturally want our customers to like the brand, to

Marketing for Halloween - top 5 campaigns from 2014

This week, the experiential offerings surrounding Halloween caught Joss Davidge's eye.

How to position your Agency

It is one of life’s divine little ironies that Ad agencies, for the most part, are not very good at marketing themselves.

Judging, fast and slow

When I was at client I used to urge my team to judge ideas by reacting like a consumer.

Why Beijing’s hipsters are too cool for a European-themed bar street

Take the Beijing subway one station past the Guomao Zhan (or International Trade Station) stop. From there, walk outside and

Beefeater plays on its Britishness in experiential campaign

Beefeater is the only international brand still producing its gin in London. The brand is evidently – and rightly -

Are modern leaders good enough?

I have been invited to a dinner discussion that intrigues me.  The question to be discussed with the assemblage –

What’s more important – media or creative?

The debate of supremacy between the medium and the message is as old as the industry itself. It certainly seems

The Perfect Storm – media fragmentation and growth

Keith Weed, CMO at Unilever suggests the tides have turned and the perfect storm of media fragmentation...

Could your marketing help girls lead Britain out of the skills shortage?

The WISE Campaign was set up 30 years ago to promote female talent in science, technology, engineering and...

#datafail

It has hit another major snag. Its latest set of ads, promoting the new structure of the deal, has been

Ferrari’s 60th birthday Beverly Hills takeover

This week, Ferrari’s takeover of one of the most exclusive shopping districts in the world has caught his eye. 
 

The hard job of brand reappraisal

I’ve just seen the new work for Argos from CHI. Bravo. Seriously. Brand reappraisal is bloody hard. You often have to start...

Developing a global brand identity: Dulux and Design Bridge

At the core of every brand beats a living and ever-evolving identity. The more meaningful a consumer perceives...

Another challenging experiential stunt from North Face

This week, The North Face’s sudden sporting challenge for its customers has caught Joss Davidge's eye.

Why Colin Wheeler chose to work with UK Youth

Colin Wheeler is Managing Partner at the strategy and marketing communications company CWMarketing Limited. We caught up with Colin to

Nothing is New Forever

The new category at the London International Awards is, in my increasingly humbled post judging opinion, the hardest category to

Cool idea or skating on thin ice?

You’ve heard of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge which went viral in June, but have you heard of Aymotrophic Lateral

Child's play

Marketing to children is not all fun and games. In fact, beneath the brightly coloured characters a battle is continually raging...

Technology and psychology: The ideal match

Debates over market research technologies can seem to the weary observer to come down to a battle between Technophiles and