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Marketing to Digital Natives

Paul Berney, CMO of Mobile Marketing Association, argues that Digital Natives are not as young as we might think.  He also considers  a future where consumers will expect to do anything and everything from one device.Before his recent tr
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2012: A new (way) foreword

In this month’s blog Faris Yakob, chief innovation officer at MDC Partners, takes a look at the decade of digital so far.  It’s slap bang in the middle of 2012.
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Behavioural Economics is basically using your loaf

Rory Sutherland tells a story illustrating how creative Choice Architecture can be. A European car manufacturer was trying to shift its cars in a sluggish market. It tried all the conventional solutions.
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Technology isn’t creative

Salman Khan was a hedge fund manager from Boston. He had three degrees, and an MBA from Harvard. So this is a bright guy. But he was also a natural teacher. He loved to look at complicated things and make them simple.
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How predators make time to eat

The main railway station in Warsaw is just like any station. People are standing around, waiting to board a train, or meet friends. And, just like any station, trains are often delayed.
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Anthropologists in the boardroom

When I discovered that the discipline most closely related to branding was not psychology or sociology but anthropology, I also discovered that in the UK, anthropologists were still busy investigating primitive tribes in New Guinea.
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Whose party was it anyway?

Our monthly blogger Phil Rumbol, former marketing director of Cadbury’s and now founding partner of
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2012 natural highs

It’s been a tough year for the environment, though 2012 could turn out to be a landmark year for the planet. We’ve pulled out six things that could and should inspire future generations to help the planet.
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