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Does humour travel across borders?

For marketers looking for a unique way to cut through the run-of-the-mill clutter, humour can be effective in building rapport.
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Hot Chip 2: David and Goliath

The appetite among marketers to get close to the tech city scene is such that one enterprising chap is selling Shoreditch tours.
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Legally high

Like many others I suspect, the news that a company in Washington State, USA is launching a range of soft drinks infused with marijuana caught my attention.
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Tim Hortons' '60s restaurant replica

Tim Hortons, the ultimate purveyor of coffee and donuts in Canada & the US, constructed a replica of the first ever Tim Hortons restaurant in the heart of Toronto. 
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Why Futerra’s Daianna Karaian is supporting Ashoka UK

Pimp My Cause caught up with Daianna, Head of Brand Strategy at the sustainable communications agency Futerra...
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Don't discount the future

In Spanish, the word for retirement is jubilacion. However, whilst we might dream of the day when we can pack in our job...
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Challenging challenger brands

Being a challenger brand isn’t just about where you sit in a market place, it is about adopting behaviours and attitudes that set you apart...
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Vans’ underground brand experience

No stranger to large scale brand experiences, urban footwear and clothing brand Vans transformed the London’s Old Vic Tunnels...
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Chinese whispers

Ahead of their breakfast debate on global versus local in Hong Kong on September 10th, Seraphina Wong – UBS, APAC head of Advertising, Communications & Branding and Charles Lankaster, managing partner, SharpeLankester, Hong Kong have a convers
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Thank f*ck for that: Will Harris reflects on Scotland's 'No' vote

Thank fuck for that. It appears (from New York at least, where I am writing this piece) that the Scots have peered over the abyss...
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