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Is Social Media Scaring The Pants Off Planners?

October 14, 2008

Every once in a while you read blogs from ad people (mostly planners) where they question whether agencies can ever succeed in social media. The most pessimistic ones in the discussion refer to the lack of successful examples in the past. And sure, you could say that there aren’t many, even though there are definitely more than one (Nike+ being the one most often referred to).

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Is Social Media Scaring The Pants Off Planners?

October 6, 2008

Every once in a while you read blogs from ad people (mostly planners) where they question whether agencies can ever succeed in social media. The most pessimistic ones in the discussion refer to the lack of successful examples in the past. And sure, you could say that there aren’t many, even though there are definitely [...]

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I Stand By My Belief That Einstein Would Have Made a Great Planner/Creative

August 13, 2008

In my Einstein quotes of the day, this popped up today:Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure. Ties in nicely with the discussion of planners vs. creatives, and a comment I made earlier this week on Rory Sutherland’s blog: “In real life, we [...]

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Often Wrong, Never in Doubt

August 7, 2008

Three years ago, advertising zillionaire Donny Deutsch wrote a book called “Often Wrong Never In Doubt”. And even though he perhaps didn’t mean it in the way I’m going to describe it here, I think it may describe one of the more profound truths of advertising today. Not least in Sweden. If you think about [...]

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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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