Where Does Strategy Come From?
Not too long ago I spoke with a group of UNC Ad Club students who were interested in pursuing planning as a career. Many had been through internships in larger agencies where planner roles and related job titles varied widely.
Pull vs. Push Advertising
We believe an agency's job is to deliver big business-building ideas to its clients — not just advertising. In fact, some of the most powerful and effective ideas we've developed and implemented don't resemble anything within the traditional definition of advertising at all.
Radiohead Effect
Name your price: that’s what the band Radiohead offered fans when they released their album “In Rainbows” online. Consumers got to decide how much they would pay for the album.
Thinking Behind Blinking
Thanks to Prof. Mike Randall of The University of Endless Learning at The Republik, book reports have returned from the halls of high school to haunt us. Luckily for Prof. Randall, my book assignment did not merely instill applicable marketing principles, but was indeed interesting.