THE BLOG

We've seen how "social media" like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have, in the space of a few years, transformed the consumer media landscape. These three sites combined over 170 million…

My business partner David Nichols coined a great phrase we use on our projects: drop-deadlines. Not just "a date we're aiming for", which is often the type of deadline that…

Thanks to Tom Fishburne for reminding me of the spoof video from 2006 that takes the piss out of Microsoft's "cram it all in" approach to packaging. It shows how…

Guest blogger: Anne Charbonneau, Managing Partner France & BeneluxRenovating the core of your brand and keeping it fit is a permanent challenge. Sometime, keeping your ears and eyes open to…

The new version of the brandgym book we're working on is all about brand leadership: how to achieve it, and then retain it. And a great example of a brand…

We love packaging design, and feel its still under-utilised as a marketing tool. We've posted several times before on what we call "packvertising", here and here.Well, a great new source…

In our book "Brand stretch" we talk about the over-crowded "brand extension graveyard". When we share this in workshops, people laugh at the examples, such as Cosmopolitan Yoghurt, Levi's Suits…

Increasingly we are working with brand teams to change their approach to innovation. We are trying to get them out of seeing product development, and in particular new products, as…

This is a follow-up to an earlier post about smoothie brand innocent selling its soul to Coke. It shows how a fan club you build up can turn on you…

Nice post from "Management Cartoonist" Tom Fishburne, on the need for all of us in marketing to get out of our offices into the real world. As Tom says, "It's…