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Long copy isn't back

Apple has just released a series of long copy ads with the help of advertising agency TBWAMedia Arts Lab, USA. Does this mark a return to the heyday of long copy advertising? Sadly, but definitely, not...
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It's a matter of life and death

When my son was very small he asked me about death. We were driving along on a sunny day. Suddenly the concept hit him with the weight of a cartoon anvil.
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10 tips for marketing sustainability

Giles Robertson, managing director of Green Banana Marketing and associate Sustainability Practitioner, Kim Bailey, took part in a Google Hangout Session on whether consumers have turned-off from green and how marketing can switch them back on.
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Theatrical brand experiences

Joss Davidge, business director of brand experience agency BEcause, continues his weekly search for great marketing ideas.
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Rugby, refs and opticians

Right place, right time, right cognitive engagement - Like many rugby fans (‘nut’ might be a better description) I was so excited that the British & Irish Lions Tour to Australia had finally arrived.
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Nivea’s man of the match experience

Joss Davidge, business director of brand experience agency BEcause, continues his weekly search for great marketing ideas.
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The art and science of online engagement

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it. Life of Pi
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Purpose-driven branding

“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it,” Simon Sinek famously said. Marketers are all taught to define a “brand promise”.
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Things may be looking up - but we're all looking down

As I write this on an early morning Eurostar, newspaper talk is of green shoots. So are all the faces around me wreathed in happy smiles?
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Talking pants

The headlines about child sex abuse continue to shake our society, almost on a daily basis, it seems.
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