By Jeff Beer March 16, 2023 For the first time ever, Cannes Lions has named a back-to-back winner for its Creative Marketer of the Year award. The marketing and advertising industry’s biggest awards show and conference has named AB InBev as its 2023 recipient, coming on the heels of the global brewing giant’s … Continue reading AB InBev is named Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of the Year 2 years in a row
By and Jeff Beer March 12, 2023 Do you believe in love at first sight? For a marketer, the phenomenon occurs when what you’re tasked with selling has an immediately identifiable characteristic that you just know will spark people’s interest and attention. For Universal Pictures’s chief marketing officer Michael Moses, it happened at … Continue reading The marketing genius who got you hooked to see ‘M3gan’ and ‘Cocaine Bear’
With increased pressure to prove the value of marketing, it’s time to revisit the MMM approach. Jason McNellis on March 2, 2023 Boards and the C-suite expect CMOs to lead the way to profitable growth in 2023 despite various macroeconomic pressures manifesting into the “triple squeeze,” making everything more expensive. And although marketing budgets, as … Continue reading Marketing mix modeling: A marketer’s guide
By Rob Walker February 03, 2023 Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. At first, it looked like Marie Kondo had deeply undermined one of the most successful personal-brand stories of the past decade. According to a Washington Post article, the author, Netflix star, business owner, and … Continue reading Marie Kondo is messy now—and it’s actually expanding her brand
By Jeff Beer January 22, 2023 Ever since Pepsi first pitched itself to your parents and grandparents as a youth-focused brand back in 1963—“Come alive! You’re in the Pepsi Generation!”—there has been a steady stream of soda marketing and entire brand launches conceived for the sole purpose of enticing young, cool, (and lucrative) tastebuds. … Continue reading Pepsi’s new Gen Z soda and the futile quest to be the brand of a generation
By Rob Walker January 20, 2023 Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. As popular as it is, TikTok has critics—very serious critics, with very serious concerns. This isn’t just the usual social-media griping (misinformation, dubious trends, etc.). The addictive-video app has already been banned from government … Continue reading Why advertisers are pouring more money into TikTok, even as the government threatens to shut it down
Influencers Key To Marketing In A Down Cycle by Nick Cooke , January 13, 2023 As the “R word” remains top of mind at clients and agencies alike, marketers are turning cautious eyes to their budgets. Whether or not someone believes we are in a recession or headed for one, there are things brands can … Continue reading Influencers Key To Marketing In A Down Cycle
By Jeff Beer January 03, 2023 On Monday, DC Shoes cofounder, Hoonigan founder, and rally-car driver Ken Block died in a snowmobile accident at the age of 55. Block is perhaps best known among mainstream audiences for his groundbreaking Gymkhana rally-car-stunt driving series, launched in 2008, which has attracted more than 500 million views … Continue reading Why Ken Block was such a masterful marketer
By Lindy Segal December 08, 2022 After nearly three decades of pushing her body to its limits, Serena Williams is now focusing on recovery—quite literally. Following the tennis champ’s announcement in August that she is “evolving away” from the sport that made her a sports icon, today, Williams launches Will Perform, a line of topical … Continue reading Serena Williams’ new venture focuses on recovery
AimClear Interviewed ChatGPT About Marketing, Innovation- – Here’s What It Said aimClear, Friday, December 16, 2022 ChatGPT is all the rage. This latest evolution of artificial chat intelligence has some marketers worried about their jobs. Output from ChatGPT ranges from extraordinary to equivocating, self-admittedly incorrect, and fluent bullsh*t. The AI-infused output is characteristically … Continue reading AimClear Interviewed ChatGPT About Marketing, Innovation- – Here’s What It Said
