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Mark Ritson9 min read

What can McCain’s Grand Prix win teach us? Nothing new

The IPA Effectiveness Awards winner is a case study in the marketing fundamentals that ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

The internet will soon need warnings for AI-generated content

AI’s strength is automating high-volume, short-term marketing activity, which means ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

There’s one true measure of marketing effectiveness: Marketing(t)

Time is the variable that most defines marketing success, because consistent growth is ...
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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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