Hold your hats and hallelujah! Protein World’s morally languid Beach Body campaign has actually done some good. After a year of formal discussions, the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has announced they’ll be implementing a crackdown on adverts that promote offensive or false stereotypes. Before you start celebrating though, here’s a little rain for your
In a recent marketing stunt, Volvo used an ‘unboxing video’. Maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it seem as though it were only yesterday that these videos were odd little creatures, tucked away in the rarely-traversed depths of YouTube? Perhaps just by casually referencing them, I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s altogether possible you don’t
Customers enjoy memorable experiences (cue the gasps). It shouldn’t come as a great surprise that the ‘Peak Stuff’ theory really has been vindicated lately. It points out that a good live event can be more valuable to the consumer than a product on its own. And it’s right. A storytelling device for today’s customer Since
Providing you haven’t just emerged from a few years beneath a rock, it probably hasn’t escaped your notice that a few political tectonic plates have been shifting recently, both in Europe and across the pond. Setting aside any reservations you may have concerning the outcomes, there can be no doubt that millennials – particularly the
Maybe it isn’t what you want to hear, but business creds are often done badly. Numerous, and perhaps harsh, assessments have begun surfacing ranging from ‘They’re all as bad as each other’, by Stephen Fair of Econsultancy, to ‘Most ad agency new business presentations stink. Period’, by Mike Fromowitz, who writes for Campaign. Harsh, yes,
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A genuine, if somewhat tempered, applause should be rippling around the business world following the integration of Amazon’s Prime Video on Apple TV. The joint venture of the two industry giants demonstrates some shrewd thinking. With so many different services from a mind boggling number of different companies on offer for consumers, lack of compatibility
I hope Damian Hughes won’t mind me saying this but he doesn’t immediately strike you as an obvious inspiring life guru. Writing on a topic – fulfilling your life’s purpose – which is a current literary obsession, is brave when your credentials read as: ex-football youth player, Unilever HR manager and volunteer at Manchester’s Moston
