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Posted on11/11/202411/11/2024Advertising, Economics

The UK Budget and growth – an adland view

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I was asked for my view on the impact of the long awaited UK Budget – the first from the new Labour Government. This is…

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Posted on29/10/2023Advertising, Articles and columns

If you want to be right, try being wrong

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The more fashionable parts of the advertising industry have always liked failure. They go on and on about how important it is to fail. To…

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Posted on27/08/202327/08/2023Advertising, Provocations

We need to think more about advertising

by Richard3 Comments on We need to think more about advertising

I am no fan of intellectuals. The people that complicate, theorise, pontificate and posture. With little effect on the real world. Marketing is a simple…

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Posted on30/05/2023Advertising, Provocations

When it comes to vaping, let’s not make the mistakes of the past

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I have always believed that advertising and regulation go hand in hand. Advertising needs regulating because of its power. We understand that better than anyone…

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Posted on01/10/201901/10/2019Advertising

Belief is our killer app

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Tribalism has got an awfully bad name of late. Built on identity and identification, it has a noble birth. But the problem is that tribalism…

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Posted on30/09/201819/02/2019Advertising

Advertising only ever works by consent

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All of a sudden, the world of marketing has got very polite indeed. For years we have taken absolutely no notice of whether people actually…

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Posted on02/11/201719/05/2018Advertising, Articles and columns, Planning

The real genuis of ‘and’

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There is one word the advertising industry really hates. In this word lies the root of all perceived evil. It’s only a little word but…

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Posted on26/10/201701/10/2019Advertising, Provocations

We need to think more about advertising

by Richard3 Comments on We need to think more about advertising

Adam Lury, one of the founders of the late, great and greatly missed HHCL, is perhaps one of our least recognised planning legends. The exponent…

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Posted on28/06/201702/11/2017Advertising

Why hire an advertising agency?

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David Ogilvy famously asked clients of his agency wanting to write their own work, “why keep a dog and bark yourself?” Half a century later…

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Posted on19/03/201726/10/2017Advertising, Planning

The year ahead in planning

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Ok so its March and this is rather late off the rank. But better late than never. It just means we have 9 months not…

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Posted on26/09/201611/12/2016Advertising, Planning

Stand up for strategy

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The work, the work, the work. That’s the mantra by which we live and die in advertising. Good agencies are measured by the work they…

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Posted on26/07/201622/08/2016Advertising, Saatchi & Saatchi

Remain was advertising’s lowest moment

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This is an article I wrote for the second edition of the New European. The New European is a fascinating publication, it was set up…

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Adliterate has been delivering radical thinking for the brand advice business for 20 years. My intention is to take a more radical view of issues in order to solve deep seated problems and I set myself against orthodoxy in any form. Adliterate is also deliberately provocative, because life is more fun that way. Much of my thinking on brand strategy is now availble in Feral Strategy, my new book which is available here.

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