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Matt Williams: all style and no substance – the dire state of modern-day car marketing

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The US presidential election gave us more than a few controversial moments. Many of them disheartening. Many of them genuinely shocking. And many of them made you fear for the human race. But the election gave us the odd delightful moment too (you might have to bear with me here). One of those delightful moments.

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Free Range Brands Looks At A Marketing Landscape Gone Wild

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Think back on the last decade or so, and you’ll find countless examples of companies whose traditional positions in the marketplace were challenged. Some have successfully adapted, and some haven’t. Nicole Ertas takes a closer look at this phenomenon in Free Range Brands: Join the New Breed of Agile Brands. To start with, Ertas talks […]. The post Free Range Brands Looks At A Marketing Landscape Gone Wild appeared first on AdPulp.

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Coca-Cola Christmas Truck on Facebook Live! (#HolidaysAreComing)

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It's the time of year where '#HolidaysAreComing' and Christmas ads start to appear on our TV screens. In the UK we have had many of the Christmas ad campaigns start already, but there is one that lots of people wait for with anticipation - the Coca-Cola Christmas truck! This year the Coca-Cola Christmas Truck 'Holidays Are Coming' TV ad will appear on UK screens tonight and this is being brought to life in a number of ways for 2016.

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Samsung RWC Wins Gold & Silver in the MMA UK & EMEA Smarties Awards

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There’s no doubt that mobile devices play a huge role in the way we consume sports. Brands are always finding unique ways to leverage sporting events to connect and engage with their target audience. One such brand that truly capitalized on the power of mobile was Samsung who successfully sealed their association with the Rugby World Cup through this campaign.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Big advertisers wake up to perils of digital and data – well, some of them do

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Advertisers don’t have to agree about everything of course but the groovy new digital world seems to have them in a spin. Procter & Gamble has just finished a major restructuring : getting rid of 100 brands it deems non-essential both for itself and consumers; cutting the number of agencies and returning, it seems, to.

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FTC and Courts Remain Real Serious About Fake News Advertising

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In case you were like Alabama football coach Nick Saban and unware , there was an election last week. One post-election issue has been the use of “fake news” to try and sway voters and possible steps to prevent those types of stories going forward. The FTC has been trying to stop “fake news” advertising for some time; see our earlier posts on the Lean Spa case, Lord & Taylor case , and Native Advertising Statement.

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Adscam’s George Parker: best (and worst) ads of 2016

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In his wisdom, Stephen has asked for my opinion on the great ads of 2016. I suspect that as he knows I have never failed to modestly represent myself as MAA’s Curmudgeon in Chief, so I would not expected to deliver laudatory gush about great ads for Tesco or Brexit… Whatever the f**k Brexit means!

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Grey Canada shows the other side of Christmas in a print cracker for The Salvation Army

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It isn’t much fun having little money at any time, especially Christmas. Grey Canada has twigged this in its new campaign for The Salvation Army which should, if there’s any justice, win most awards for charity advertising and quite a few for print. Sobering as we spend, spend, spend. MAA creative scale: 9.

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Ageism debate: the intent is good but can adland actually afford to be less ageist?

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Bumped into a still ashen adman on his way back from a NABS breakfast the other day (NABS is the UK’s advertising charity). One of the speakers had been MediaCom chairwoman Karen Blackett (below), a single parent. Blackett had been talking to her audience about diversity, something she clearly knows a lot about. The trouble.

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Tom Denford and David Indo from ID Comms: who are the world’s best CMOs?

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On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David celebrate an epic list of the 50 Most Innovative CMOs In The World written by Lara O’Reilly at Business Insider. Tom was part of the small advisory board that helped identify the world’s marketing leaders alongside Wendy Clark the CEO of DDB and Donovan Neale-May, executive director of.

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Retail media advertising: How e-commerce is becoming AdTech’s next frontier

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Giles Keeble: how advertising discovered ‘post-truth’ before the OED – and the trouble with Big Data

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The Oxford English Dictionary has declared “post-truth” is the word of the year. It means “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” This seems to me to have been something advertising has accepted for some time. While it is.

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Now Samsung’s Galaxy bursts into Christmas

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Wonder if Samsung Mobile in the US made this (almost certainly yes) and bought the airtime (very likely) before its phone batteries started catching fire? Whatever, it’s a rather daunting insight into the way we live now with headphones, VR and all the rest of it. It’s nicely made by 72andSunny all the same (will.

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Latest from Snapfax: Boris loses sparkle, Wayne’s wedding and challenged mannequins.

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Hello Snapfax fans and welcome to our latest celebration of the top shreds of the last seven days, as we forensically examine the waste bin under our fax shredder connected to the internet. In fact, seeing as it’s a celebration, do you fancy a glass of something fizzy? Maybe some prosecco? Because in at Number.

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CHI wins McVitie’s global and Godiva – we think

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Well here’s a funny thing. CHI, part of Johnny Hornby’s WPP-backed The&Partnership, has won McVitie’s global biscuits business and also Godiva chocs (left), both owned by Turkish company Pladis. How do we know this? Well we don’t really but Campaign says so. Nobody’s saying anything on the record. Maybe the news was carried by a.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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ASA cans Heinz ‘Can Song’ campaign

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UK ad watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned this rather nice BBH ad – ‘Can Song’ – on health and safety grounds following a number of complaints. It says there’s a danger of children trying to do it with empty cans with sharp edges. Hmm. Nobody wants to see A&E departments full of.

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JWT finds a roar for new WWF save tigers campaign

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Here’s a compelling ad from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) by JWT London for its #ProtectTigers campaign. You do suspect that these things, like Sky’s ‘Snow Leopards’ promotion, are lost causes But let’s hope not. Do you know they used to host lions in Syria and Lebanon? I recall once seeing seeing a photo of.

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Engine rolls out new customer engagement platform

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Global marketing services network Engine has launched a new customer engagement and media delivery platform to help brands create more personalised customer experiences. Called Rapport, the new platform uses first and third party data to maximise digital performance and improve customer conversion. It analyses individual customer behaviour across a brand’s digital properties, helping marketers to.

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Lucky Generals’ Premier Inn campaign: bang on strategy or plain boring?

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Here’s the third iteration of Lucky Generals’ debut campaign for Premier Inn and it’s a mark of the massive interest – in UK adland anyway – in the Generals that people will look at it and go: so what? The Generals specialise in fireworks which is one thing this campaign signally lacks. But Premier is.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Mike Nicholson of Brave picks his Desert Island Ads

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Mike Nicholson is ECD of independent London creative agency Brave. His CV is packed with London’s top agencies – AMV BBDO, adam&eveDDB, M&C Saatchi and Wieden+Kennedy and he has also done stints at digital agency Toaster and The&Partnership in Canada. He was named the number one creative from England in the 2009 Gunn Report.

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Former BBH star Emma Cookson joins You & Mr Jones

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Some more clues have emerged about the intended shape of former Havas CEO David Jones’ You & Mr Jones, described (by itself) as “the world’s first brandtech group, aiming to build brands better, faster and cheaper through technology.” We already know its big (ish), employing 400 or so people in 12 locations. It’s bought three.

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Can new agency Krow cut it for Labour?

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At some point most independent agencies of note have a decision to make: do we take on the Labour Party? The Tories tend to cherry pick talent from the bigger networks these days although M&C Saatchi usually pops up in the driver’s seat. Post-Blair Labour though? Phew.is Jeremy Corbyn (below) electable?

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Apple and Spanish Lottery: two ways to tear ducts

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Here’s Apple’s Christmas offering, ‘Frankie’s holiday.’ Frankie being Frankenstein’s monster. “Open your heart” Apple advises us. Take it they didn’t really have anything to say. In comparison this is open heart surgery, from the Spanish Lottery which won this year’s Cannes Cyber Grand Prix for another tear jerker ‘Justino.’ Granny thinks she’s won but she.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Now it’s McDonald’s’ turn to tug the Xmas heartstrings

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McDonald’s is running what it calls its biggest UK Christmas campaign, built around a winsome left-on-the-shelf doll Juliette and the opportunity for romantic, as well as scoffing, opportunities in McD. Could’ve been a big dollop of gloop but, as ever with Leo Burnett and McDonald’s, it’s nicely done. You do bat for Juliette as she.

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Is Prada perplexing on purpose in new online epic?

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Fashion ads – or online films in this case – can be blissfully daft. This new one from Prada, ‘Past Forward,’ written and directed by David O. Russell, certainly continues that noble tradition. It features three model types in jeopardy in some futuristic airport that, rather bizarrely, also features a sinister operating theatre.

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Giles Keeble: in a divided world are ads striving to be politically correct?

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As the world post-Brexit and post-Trump election seems to be getting more divisive, ads seem to be falling over themselves to be more politically correct. This is perhaps especially noticeable because of the amount of slice-of-life stuff there is out there. So we have a mixed marriage in the Sainsbury’s Xmas ad, a black family.

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Mad Man Don Draper buys the world a Coke

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As we peer into a Trump future (WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell thinks he might be OK because he knows daughter Ivanka – or something like that) let’s hope it is the birth of something not too awful. So here’s something uplifting from the final series of Mad Men. And you thought it was McCanns didn’t.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.