Contrary to popular belief, people do still read online — but the trick is serving up the right content at the right time. Web copy has the power to create deep brand loyalty. Read this summary of Denise Wilton’s IxDA presentation.
Contrary to popular belief, people do still read online — but the trick is serving up the right content at the right time. Web copy has the power to create deep brand loyalty. Read this summary of Denise Wilton’s IxDA presentation.
Storytelling is so much a part of what I do — but without an understanding of craft, narratives can fall flat. Cindy Chastain shared tips for thinking like a storyteller during IxDA10.
Radio Shack has launched an ad campaign aimed at overhauling its brand image. In its marketing, the retailer has shortened its name to “The Shack” and adopted a wacky tone (presumably à la the bizarro-world marketing antics of Burger King) that seems designed to reach a younger audience.
“If you think about how you use nicknames, [...]
This week a mailer announcing Target’s newly redesigned private brand landed in our mailbox, complete with coupons for many of the products in the private label family. The new Up & Up brand, with its multicolored category system and bubbly upward-pointing arrows, is a departure from the Target bullseye logo. It also seems like a [...]
Did you hear the one about the ad agency that wrote a 27-page creative brief for the rebranding of a major beverage brand that was so pretentious, self-indulgent, and ludicrously aspirational it had everyone in the ad business rolling in the aisles?
The story has been hard to miss since someone leaked the “Breathtaking Design Strategy” [...]
