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Copywriter of the week : Steve Williss

Throughout his entire working life, Steve Williss has had a love of letters. He loves how their shapes are individually defined to represent a sound, and when combined with others, produces a word that, subsequently, has a purpose. By trade,…
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Avoiding Copywriting By Committee

We hear the phrase ‘Everyone’s a critic’ a lot in the creative disciplines. Sometimes this feels very true, especially in larger companies with longer approval processes. But it’s important to be able to distance yourself from the creative…
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Copywriter of the week : Shelley Travers

When I was growing up all I wanted to do was work in media, but everyone told me that it wasn’t likely to happen in Adelaide, and so while I was working as a High School English teacher, I booked a one-way ticket to London on impulse. Within…
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Copywriter of the week : Fraser Bailey

An alternative look at a career in advertising By Collective copywriter Fraser Bailey This is not another boring story of which clients I worked on while working for such and such an agency. Instead, it’s a more personal and football-related…
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Copywriter of the week : Stephanie Wollenberg

I’ve spent close to a decade creating concepts, inventive taglines, refreshing re-brand ideas–you name it–for Nike, Deliveroo, American Express, Philips and Booking.com. Helping brands “speak” is my thing. That’s why since I started…
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Has Digital Marketing Killed Off Branding & Creativity?

How has digital marketing affected branding? Q&A with Chris Bullick, MD of The Pull Agency. Bill Gates – somewhat belatedly – said ‘The Internet changes everything’. In reality, Microsoft was late to the party but Gates nailed…
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Insults, Book Titles and Headlines That (Hilariously) Beggar Belief

Words are powerful. They can carry big and serious ideas, communicated by icons such as Martin Luther King Jr, Malala Yousafzai or Winston Churchill. But they can also carry a healthy dose of well-considered silliness. Think Amy Schumer,…
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Stop (Brand) Police!

How frustrating is it to spend blood, sweat and tears on creating a communication, either yourself or through an external resource, for it to be pulled up by the brand department. Many marketing professionals have been dubbed ‘Brand Police’…
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How to Force Yourself to Write

I think it was Mark Twain who is supposed to have said "Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." This might seem a flippant comment at first glance. When you think it through though, it makes a lot more sense. If…

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