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Flawed Beauty and Awkward Truths

'I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.' Choreographer, George Balanchine
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Return of the cookie monster!

As a child I wasn’t the biggest fan of Sesame Street’s cookie monster, it would frustrate me how it never actually ate the cookies
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99 cents or less, 99 cents or more

There’s a ninety nine cent store in the East Village, part-concealed by scaffolding that neither seems to be connected to building work, nor ever comes down.
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Why the Conservatives need to re-brand the party

Tony Blair was the last politician to lead a major party rebranding with the “New labour” project.
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How to strike it rich in 2020 in the Influencer Marketing Wild West

At the beginning of 2019, it was estimated that Influencer Marketing would be worth $10 Billion by 2020. Business Insider last month released a report estimating the channel...
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Will your brand be blind-sided by cultural change in 2020?

My copy of The Economist now comes in a see through non-plastic wrapper that is “100% compostable” and can be “put in the food waste bin”.
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Absolute Nonsense

Our desire to make bold proclamations about our industry’s future often stunts its ability to actually grow
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Top Marketing Society content of 2019

It's been an interesting year in terms of content. Our network has written about culture, leadership styles, challenger brands, toxic masculinity, imposter syndrome and more.
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What did the election teach us about advertising effectiveness?

So – how did that happen? And what can the marketing and advertising worlds learn about effective communication from the Tories’ overwhelming victory last Thursday?
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Election Special

The death this year of Lord Bell reminds us that there is a shortage of high-profile advertising experts - the kinds of people who get called by Newsnight and Today editors...
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