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Do you find this blog valuable? Useful? If so, please pop over here to suggest it on Joseph Jaffe's blog (he's a guru on blogging and new media, author of…

Hugh over at Gaping Void (one of the worlds most-read bloggers) is launching the second Thresher online viral coupon. If you're in the UK, you can get 40% off all…

I posted last month on the launch of Virgin Media, the re-branded merger of NTL/Telewest (cable TV, fixed phone, broadband) and Virgin Mobile. I was hoping that the months spent…

Read some interesting research done by Interbrand in this month's Brand Strategy magazine, which looked at the power of "pride" in the company you work for in driving growth. The…

If you needed any more persuading about the power of "social media" (basically people with a common interest sharing stuff via the web; also called Web 2.0), then Ben's update…

God these guys are good. They do help me keep the faith in branding on my darker days. Despite becoming seriously big (100 million Euros+ in turnover), innocent manage to…

Came across an absolute train crash of a brand extension on the brand express blog, who had brought to my attention a survey of best and worst brand extensions. This…

This is the 5th snippet from the brand vision book. It looks at the rise in popularity of two things which taken together cause brand teams to commit what I…

If you have a minute, look at the following 4 very rough mocked-up covers of the "Where's the Sausage?" book (out on October 1). As a reminder, WTS? the book…

There has been a lot of slagging of (product) Red's first year's results: $25 million raised after many high profile campaigns by Motorolla, Amex, Gap and others. This is the…