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October 17, 2023October 12, 2023 andreweverett360

Mark Ritson: Differentiation is not about uniqueness

Josh Stephenson wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Ritson: Differentiation is not about uniqueness (31 July 2023).

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October 16, 2023October 12, 2023 andreweverett360

Mark Ritson: three areas where the marketing industry is missing the point

Chris Sutcliffe wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Mark Ritson: Segmentation is not the prerequisite for success (5 October 2023).

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June 30, 2023 andreweverett360

FTC Guidance For Influencer Marketing

Wendy Davis wrote an article for MediaPost titled FTC Updates Guidance For Influencer Marketing (29 June 2023).

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June 20, 2023 andreweverett360

Andy Wheatley on brand strategy: Data does not deliver instinct or empathy. Humans do.

Andy Wheatley wrote a bog post titled On instinct, empathy and brand strategy (19 June 2023).

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April 1, 2023 andreweverett360

Alex Murrell: Distinctiveness has died.

Alex Murrell wrote a blog post titled The Age of Average (March 20, 2023).

« This article argues that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same. Welcome to the age of average. »

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February 24, 2023 andreweverett360

Samuel Scott on last-click attribution and econometrics

Samuel Scott wrote an article for The Drum titled Digital attribution is dead! Les Binet tells us why marketers need econometrics in 2023 (23 February 2023).

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February 12, 2023 andreweverett360

Andrew Willshire on forecasts and models

JP Castlin posted an interview with marketing and media analyst Andrew Willshire titled Models & Mistakes (10 February 2023). Topics include forecasts, models, and econometrics.

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January 20, 2023 andreweverett360

Mark Ritson: Why Brands Advertise and the Seven Perils of Discounting

Mark Ritson wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Tesla is about to experience the seven perils of discounting (January 19, 2023).

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January 12, 2023January 11, 2023 andreweverett360

The Elements of Value: delivering what consumers want

Eric Almquist, John Senior, and Nicolas Bloch (colleagues at Bain & Company) wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The Elements of Value: Measuring—and delivering—what consumers really want (September 2016).

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January 4, 2023 andreweverett360

McKinsey: marketing trends in 1966

McKinsey Quarterly published an article titled The changing face of marketing written in 1966 by John D. Louth, a principal in McKinsey’s San Francisco office. Louth discusses six trends he believes “will be felt by almost every business.”

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