Think pieces

A maverick solution to feeding people in need

Maverick Digital has produced a pro bono film that has helped Foodcycle gain £120,000 of funding.

Foodcycle is an innovative

Standing out from the crowd

October has been designated Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

It is also the host month of Stoptober, encouraging people to stop

Keep on the grass stunt from Coca-Cola

Joss Davidge, Business Director of brand experience agency BEcause, continues his weekly quest for great marketing ideas.

This week he

The future isn't what it used to be

Prospection, the act of looking forward in time, is a quintessentially human endeavour. In fact, some consider it the quintessential

Learnings for charities ‘building brands on and offline’

'A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard

I predict a riot: lessons in luddism

‘Your name is down amongst the Black Hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you to make your wills……Ye have not done as ye ought. Swing.’

Samsung redefines waiting game for Galaxy S4 launch

Joss Davidge, Business Director of brand experience agency BEcause, continues his weekly quest for great marketing ideas. This week he

One good turn

The story of the lost suitcase, the good Samaritan and the elephant in the room

Thomas was sitting quietly waiting

Words. Sentences. Paragraphs. Stories.

The most common style of public speaking, one that’s often used by politicians and is surprisingly common among investment pitches

Mobile is killing media

There's a five-fold gap between mobile revenue and desktop revenue for the same page. In other words, for every page

How KitKat breathes life into its 'Have a Break' strapline

This week he looks at how KitKat is bringing its 'Have a Break, have a KitKat' strapline to life using

Finding that perfect marketing match

With the steady rise of online dating in the last few years the original player, Match.com (founded in 1995), has

He who dies with the most toys wins

In Brussels the other week for a conference hosted by a family owned investment business, I was treated to a

Function + emotion = mythical brand status

One of my favourite epigrams on branding is this: Brands become myths by telling the truth. The idea is a

Marketing Stunts

RedBull achieved marketing nirvana last year when they sponsored Felix Baumgartner’s jump from a helium balloon in the stratosphere to

Building trust by feeding pigs

This week he looks at campaign that builds trust and gets people talking by connecting Londoners with ‘happy pigs’.
 

Surface the insights inside the company

Earlier in the year I went to interview the CEO of FNB, the South African Bank voted in 2012 ‘The

'Always give more' Kindness and humanity in business

'Always give people more than they expect'
Nelson Boswell

There’s a great new post from Seth Godin on the 11

Fantasy Football: system 2 preparations / system 1 choices

Jack Tarshis is the son of one of my best friends. He is a filmmaker and soon to be a

Your alphabet

The only reason that typesetting works is that a small collection of letters can be re-used again and again to print millions of different words.

Put a pencil in your mouth

pencil

Priming is a nonconscious form of human memory, which is concerned with perceptual identification of words and objects.

It refers