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My favourite brand – and why you’ll not find it in a shop

For years, I have spent my time researching which type of ‘brand’ is right for me – for everything I buy. From clothes to food to music to video games, everything I love in my life is dictated by some form of brand. If I want to buy…
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Brand activation – wherever, whenever, however

Flash mobs, interactive billboards, neighbours’ days and a whole new world of online experiences through social networks. Brand activation is hot. Whether you’re Nike or Mercedes, no big brand avoid the battle for the hearts of consumers…
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Secret Branding Advice They Don’t Teach in Business School

While branding seems like something only the big name companies need to worry about, branding is actually happening to your business whether or not you realize it. As you advertise and interact with customers, you are creating an understanding…
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Why is advertising in Russia so uncreative?

What makes it so bad? Russia is a huge developing market and it's experiencing a consumer boom. Nearly all international brands have already jumped in. Visit Moscow - and you will easily feel this rush, this flow of free money everywhere. Advertising…
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Why advertising sucks

Let’s face it. Advertising sucks. Although it’s difficult for me to face up to the fact that I’ve wasted the last twenty years of my life I have finally come to this very sorry realisation. At best it’s completely superficial while…
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Collective internship vacancy: Marketing and communication intern

Here's our copywriting internship description. Please pass it around if you know someone looking for an amazing learning experience. Company profile: Copywriter Collective is an agency for freelance advertising creative’s. From our base…
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Copywriting do’s and don’ts (Pt II – the don’ts)

In the second part of our 'Copywriting do's and don'ts' here, rather predictably, are five copywriting don'ts. Actually there are six (which ironically probably breaks the most important rule: Follow the brief! Oh well, rules are there to be…
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Thinking outside the (charity) box

Practically since the dawn of time, the best advertising agencies have been more than happy to do charity advertising for next to nothing. It’s a mutually benevolent arrangement. The charity advertising gets memorable, visible work, raising…

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