Tag Archive: Branding

Why online copywriting is more important than ever

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.

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Shack attack (and other brand-tinkering tomfoolery)

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, [...]

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The creative brief: when it’s good, it’s good

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” [...]

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9 for ’09: brand communications hypotheses for the new year

Every marketing expert with a blog and a pulse has already released a “predictions” list for 2009 — they’ve become as ubiquitous as the end-of-year best-of albums and Oscar favorites. Neither a soothsayer nor a guru, I won’t endeavor to predict the future. But I can make some educated guesses, based on a lot of [...]

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Bird's-eye branding

Wired.com has a piece about the launch of the new high-resolution commercial satellite, GeoEye-1, which Google will be using for its various mapping applications.
Now that communities will be photographed from space in such crisp and close-up detail, will more businesses start thinking about their rooftops as prime ad real estate? Target’s already doing it with [...]

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