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Don Draper is (almost) Dead - eclectic comment by Greg Bufithis

31/7/2018

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Cannes Lions 2018: Don Draper is dead, media convergence goes high-speed ... and the GDPR takes center stage [1 of 2]

including links to our favorites ads (with thanks to staffers Catarina Conti and Silvia Di Prospero) "Yikes, it's back-to-business this year! I mean, man, the driveway at the Carlton hotel was noticeably easier to navigate, that crowd palpably thinner. And people were going to bed at 11 - and taking meetings at nine in the morning!

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Marketing and Branding: or how you can fool all of the people some of the time!

3/6/2018

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Cantankerous? Well better than being bland! And, yes, David Ogilvy was a genius

22/2/2018

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So I was recently described as "the funny, wonderful and slightly cantankerous Charles Christian." Well in my book that's a compliment – and it sure beats being bland.
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Tonight's WTF video: The Cadbury's Chocolate Flake ad that got away

29/11/2017

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Flake - Jonathan Glazer from David Nichols on Vimeo.

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I love tofu salad but does anyone want that last donut?

25/7/2017

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New post and cartoon by Tom Fishburne on why 80% of new product & service launches fail within six months of launch despite going through focus group vetting: there's a gap between what people say and what they actually do...

the problem with focus groups

"The correlation between stated intent and actual behavior is usually low and negative," HBS Professor Gerald Zaltman wrote in his classic textbook, How Customers Think. Year ago I took Zaltman's class as a student and it made an impact on me.

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Worth Reading: Cannes Lions -media excess, AI & a €32 chicken sandwich

1/7/2017

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Our regular contributor Greg Bufithis is back with his take on the recent Cannes Lions festival on media excesses, AI and a €32 ($37) chicken sandwich. Did we mention it is very expensive?

PART 1 : Cannes Lions 2017 - media creativity, artificial intelligence and some legal industry take-aways. Oh, and a €32 chicken sandwich. [WITH VIDEOS]

(with a heartfelt thanks to staffers Catarina Conti and Silvia Di Prospero) In Part 1: an overview of the event and the changes in the media/advertising industry, with some cool videos ...

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Tech Throwback Thursday: Innuendo Ahoy!

22/6/2017

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Forget the current stories about sexist behaviour in Silicon Valley and the toxic 'bro' culture at Uber, check out this gobsmackingly innuendo-laden ad from way back.
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The United Airlines saga part 2: ugly, base tech-abetted, bottom-seeking capitalism

18/4/2017

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United Airlines, "the bureaucratic voice", contracts of carriage and airline economics (PART 2)

Posted on by in Brain droppings David Dao, the now famous United Airlines passenger, For Part 1 of this post which are comments on "the bureaucratic voice" click here In Part 2 below, some comments on "contracts of carriage" and airline economics Oh ...

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Comment: Greg Bufithis on United Airlines and mealy-mouthed bureaucrats

14/4/2017

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Some excellent long-form journalism here by Greg Bufithis on the United Airlines saga and mealy-mouthed bureaucrats. (Don't these people realise you can't get away this in the socialmedia age?)

United Airlines, the bureaucratic voice, "contracts of carriage" and airline economics (PART 1)

Posted on by in Brain droppings David Dao, the now famous United Airlines passenger, forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight Herein some comments on "the bureaucratic voice", with comments tomorrow on "contracts of carriage" and airline economics 13 April 2017 (Moscow, Russia) - It has been a challenge trying to keep up with the string of changes and reversals over the now infamous United Airlines flight in which members of Chicago Aviation Security forcibly removed David Dao, a customer who refused to give up his seat when asked, who ended up bloody and dazed after the encounter.

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Social Media: How to change your Twitter name without losing friends

20/3/2017

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Although this is now quite an old post, it remains the best advice I've seen on how to painlessly change your Twitter handle (something I've now done twice!) without losing friends...

Change Your Twitter Name Without Losing Followers | Alicia Orre

I recently decided to change my Twitter username and wanted to do it in such a way that I wouldn't lose my followers or access to my current profile. I've built up a great community on Twitter and want to preserve it. Besides, what if someone decided to use my current name once I'd changed it?

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