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Mark Ritson10 min read

Don’t listen to the industry sages, they’re not your ad’s target

Advertising professionals’ view of what makes a good ad is not only biased, it’s usually ...
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Mark Ritson14 min read

How Guinness became Britain’s most popular pint

Guinness is the rare example of a brand with solid foundations in its product and brand ...
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Mark Ritson18 min read

Brand-building ads boost short-term sales, and now you can prove it

Ten years since The Long and the Short of It was published, new evidence shows that while ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Films no longer have sequels, they have sub-brands and franchises

What a Netflix whodunnit tells us about brand architecture, following a last-minute ...
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Mark Ritson8 min read

A new marketing phase is resulting in empty but effective advertising

Those who criticise inauthentic advertising with no deeper meaning miss how perfect it is ...
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Mark Ritson11 min read

Follow Shania Twain’s lead and make sure product isn’t the forgotten P of marketing

Mark Ritson experiences an epiphany on his couch that leads him to revise his opinion of ...
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Mark Ritson10 min read

‘Triple-Cooked Marketing Budgets’: The full recipe

Marketing budgeting is flawed. Marketers are more confused about budgeting than ever ...
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Mark Ritson5 min read

In the battle between salience and differentiation, Bothism wins

Marketers debate over salience and differentiation like they are mutually exclusive, when ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Look at your brand from the customer’s perspective, not the other way round

Responses to the Queen’s death show marketers think brands have a place in consumers’ ...
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