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Waiting for Vodot. Why ‘video on demand’ won’t happen
Many digital experts predict an imminent transition to non-linear television – video on demand (VOD).
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Products die but brands can live forever
The obsession with newness seems to have blinded many in the marketing community to the infinitely more valuable payoff of long-standing brands – many that are familiar today have startlingly ancient lineages.
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New World Order of Global brands
most global brands have been invented by Western companies for Western consumers. emerging-market consumers are very different. simon silvester explains how to reach them
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Emotion works? But that’s irrational!
Jeremy Bullmore wrestles with the catch-22 of advertising approval
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Why good concepts are strangled at birth
Companies need to assess innovations without prejudice, and with an acceptance of some risk, says David Aaker
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How to make choice easier
If any single word defines the consumer benefit of a market-based society it is ‘choice’. It is rooted in our culture.
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Brands must connect on- and offline advertising
A Key feature of communication planning is how consumers can control their on- and offline media experiences.
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Business models and a revised big bang theory
IN RESPONSE to C John Brady’s feature ‘A new view of the future of media landscape’ (Market Leader Q1, 2011, p38), looking back, the ‘big bang’ of marketing services can be dated to around 2000.
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Building brand power in emerging middle classes
The Indian middle classes, numbering more than 400 million people, are a large consumer force who are now solidly engaged in gaining upward mobility.
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Apple v Google: they’re rivals in many ways but it’s not quite a death match
ROBERT LANE Greene has written a sparkling account in Intelligent Life, Winter 2010, of the growing rivalry between Google and Apple.
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