What experiences do great brands create, for customers, through people? Uncommon Practice explores the creation of outstanding brand experinces delivered through people , illuminated with in-depth interviews with senior executives and front-line managers.
Advertisers have always known that when it comes to making the fairer sex feel inadequate weight and looks are the easiest targets. This collection of postcards brings you the ads for lotions and potions that promised love and eternal happiness (or your money back) for the busy girl about town.
This authoritative handbook of the research procedures which determine effective advertising brings together the theory and practice of advertising into a single 'knowledge bank'.
It is now years since The Economist ran the first of its eye-catching 'White out of Red' posters. As this book points out, their 'vibrancy and visibility' have now established them as 'part of the urban landscape'. This is the story of this influential advertising campaign.
Global advertising icon Jean-Marie Dru shares personal insights and anecdotes about his life in advertising as well as lessons learned, revealing how client campaigns for Nissan, Adidas and the Apple iPhone became such unqualified successes. A business memoir and a practical guide to harnessing the power of disruption.
Before planning an event, there is much that must be done behind the scenes to make the event successful. Before any thought is even given to timing or location of the event, before the menus are selected and the decor designed, there are proposals to be written, fees and contracts to be negotiated, and safety issues to be considered.
The book covers the ongoing shift from mass-marketing and micro-marketing to sensory marketing in terms of the increased individualization in the contemporary society. It shows the importance in reaching the individuals' five senses at a deeper level than traditional marketing theories do.
Twitchell embarks on an insightful, fearless, and funny exploration of two of the central themes of modern American culture -- materialism and consumerism -- and counters the notion of the used and abused consumer with an unflinching look at commercial culture, starting from the observation that we are powerfully attracted to the world of goods (after all, we don't call them 'bads').
Focusing on the electronic media - television, radio, and the Internet - this work provides an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers.
During much of the second half of the 20th century advertising in Britain led the world. Powers of Persuasion tells the story of this dynamic, exhilarating era, with pen portraits of the personalities involved, anecdotes, and case histories - written from the inside by one of the industry's leaders and best-known commentators.
A survey of the changes in the advertising industry in the last 20 years including coverage of the emergence of international conglomerates and the diversification of the agencies into public relations and media buying.
This is an insightful analysis of the most challenging marketing concept of the decade - relationship marketing.
Advertising is often portrayed as corrupting a mythically pure relationship between people and things. Focusing on consumption controversies, Cronin contends that advertising is constituted of circuits of belief that flow between practitioners, clients, regulators, consumers and academics.