Marketing

Impressive Talk by Naoki Iko The Highlight of The Week

April 1, 2009

Microsoft delivered today. There were two excellent talks, the first one being by Nick Bailey of AKQA. It was a fairly traditional presentation of some very good work. Fiat’s Eco Drive, an in-car-USB-powered Nike+ for cars. Cool. Though I think that it would have been even cooler with an industry-wide call to action where Fiat [...]

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Wrap Up of Day 2: Thou Shalt Be Honest

March 31, 2009

Back from today’s seminars. I’m really quite tired, but try to give you a short wrap up here of today’s events. It will be brief, but I believe that if you’re one of the fairly dedicated people reading this blog, you’ll find more ground breaking stuff in your regular Twitter- and RSS-feeds than in these [...]

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The Killer App of Radio Isn’t It’s Power To Disturb, Is It?

March 31, 2009

I’m sitting at RAB’s seminar at Rival. The speaker just defined “marketing effect” as how many people had noticed a campaign. WTF? I notice the bums in the park, burglars in my bedroom, and the tax collector too. But that doesn’t mean I want to develop a close relationship, do business with them or represent [...]

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A Wrap Up of Todays Guldäggsseminarier

March 30, 2009

The “Golden Egg Award” week och seminars and debates has begun, and I have mixed feelings. Today’s fist talk by Anita Dunn was simple but excellent. No fancy slide show. No cool styling. Just an excellent talk about her work with the Obama campaign. An I think it contained a lot of what Swedish marketers [...]

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Communication Isn’t Everything.
There Are Also Oysters.

March 27, 2009

Communications strategy isn’t everything. There are also oysters. And scallops – raw in a shell, with a pinch of salt, pepper, a dash of olive oil and some lemon. We call them “Scallops Franck”, and we love them. So, why am I writing about this in a marketing blog? Well – besides the fact that [...]

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Let soak in for 2 or 3 minutes or until you see GOD!

March 26, 2009

People sometimes ask me what I mean when I talk about Honesty’s communication model. And in response, well, let me tell you a story: Last night I briefly attended one of these cool VIP-ish happenings where you get a goodie bag upon leaving. Though not entirely aimed at me (mostly women’s beauty products in there), [...]

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Is This The New Music Industry?

February 28, 2009

I‘m not so sure record labels have a role anymore though. Artists need production, distribution and marketing. Production is cheap and easy today. Perhaps this “new production” will change the sound in some direction, but just like there is a sound of the 70′s for instance, this will be the sound of today. Distribution will [...]

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Björn Rietz New CEO – A Promising New Beginning For The AAS.

February 18, 2009

Björn Rietz is the new CEO for the Advertising Association of Sweden. I guess I should comment on that. “The World is Changing” is perhaps one of the most worn out phrases in trend analysis. And it’s always true. But now, the rate of change for our context as marketing professionals act is extreme. Not [...]

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We Are The Pick Up Artists of Business.

February 1, 2009

I‘ve said for a long time that working in marketing is a lot like picking up girls. Sorry if that sounded sexist, girl or guy is all about preference, I prefer girl. Nonetheless, it’s true. And then Carl came along and suggested that Michael Dahlén’s next book might be a “The Game – Business Edition”. [...]

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Is IR The Killer Marketing App of Social Media?

December 26, 2008

Ok. Granted, I keep pushing all these “killer apps”. Last time it was honesty, this time internal relations (IR). But I really think this is worth looking into. And honesty has a great deal to do with it. A while back I wrote about how the breakdown of privacy leads to a better society and, [...]

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New Categories, Old Thinking

November 3, 2008

The Swedish advertising award Guldägget just announced new digital categories. The categories are: 1. Interactive Category A: Sites Includes campaign sites and corporate sites. 2. Interactive Category B: Advertising Includes banners, mobile marketing and SEO. 3. Interactive Category C: Other digital media Includes widgets, applications, digital events, interactive tools and social media. This segmentation into [...]

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Death of Advertising, Take 5.

September 8, 2008

I know you’ve heard this before, but most communications people still seem incredibly campaign-focused. What about the continuous work? I believe we have to start seeing ourselves less as print-factories and more like managers, doing continuous work to keep our clients in the spotlight. It’s just like managing a celebrity. Think Samantha Jones. For one [...]

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Random Thoughts on Now, Next, and Status – Inspired by Prime

July 7, 2008

The other day a book turned up at the office. It was from Prime PR and contained their outlooks on the future. Such a book will not pass by me unnoticed. I’ve only flipped through it, but it seems worthy of a good read for when I head out to sea with Aniara. One thing [...]

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The Agency Void

June 22, 2008

I have mixed feelings about Cannes 2008. It felt like maybe, just maybe, things are starting to move ever so slightly. I would say that there is a growing void between two different schools of advertising. Myself, I’m clearly on one side. It seems to me that the majority of the world’s advertising juries are [...]

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Cannes 2008 Day X: Invasion & Psychology

June 19, 2008

Cannes is now under siege. There are so many advertising people here now, from Sweden and elsewhere, it’s just ridiculous. Counting days doesn’t feel relevant anymore. It’s just intense. Seminars seem to have picked up ever so slightly in quality. MRM Worldwide at least had the sense to put psychology at the center of their [...]

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Cannes 2008: Day 1

June 15, 2008

So. Walter Naeslund has landed in Cannes. Hotel fixed. Quick social call to Social Club in the marina, visiting their obligatory 50-footer. Markus had cut his hair. Nice. Some food of course. Coffee. You know, the usual french routine. The seminar on viral marketing was all hyped and ended in disappointment for me. I’m growing [...]

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Thoughts on Apple and Communicative Design

May 26, 2008

I entered a discussion on one of my previous posts about product design, and I’ll post some of my answers here as a regular post for all of you who don’t delve into the comments regularly: Things are always infinitely more complex than any descripition. Such is the nature of information and knowledge. Simplification is [...]

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The New Coldplay Album and its Ancient Business Model

May 19, 2008

I’m sitting here listening to a track from the new Coldplay album Viva La Vida. It’s ok. But that’s not the point. The point is that I’ve actually pre-ordered the album from iTunes Store. Mainstream as they may be, I’m a bit of a Coldplay fan. Not just that, I’m also a lazy Coldplay fan [...]

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Push & Pull in Strategic Symphony

May 5, 2008

Almost a year ago I wrote this post (in Swedish) on the topic of forcing your communication onto the consumer. When I rode my bike this morning I put some more thought into it. If we lift our binoculars to the horizon and try to do some planning for the future, we could do the [...]

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