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Mark Ritson9 min read

Marketers need to put creativity back in its place

Creativity will be lauded this week in Cannes, but it is just one of several drivers of ...
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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 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 Ritson7 min read

Marketers, like chancellors, need time in the job to succeed

Short tenures engender short-term thinking, as the UK economy currently demonstrates. To ...
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Mark Ritson10 min read

P&G and Coke’s pandemic performances prove it: You don’t cut ad spend in a crisis

Procter & Gamble doubled down on marketing when Covid hit, while Coca-Cola went dark. ...
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Mark Ritson19 min read

The seven things marketers need to know in order to answer The Question

Right-minded marketers understand the need for long-term brand building investment, but ...
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Mark Ritson11 min read

‘Bothism’ is the cure for marketers’ fascination with pointless conflict

Marketing theory is a constant battle between opposing viewpoints, but an open mind and ...
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Mark Ritson13 min read

‘Funnel juggling’ is the answer to marketing effectiveness

It’s well established that brands need both long- and short-term marketing to be ...
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