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Transformational Media Initiatve Event – Hear Me Speak!
Jeremy Wickremer is hosting and The Transformational Media Initiative is holding an event called ‘The Positive Future of Media’ on June 19th at 7pm in London (Hub Westmister). They have 3 highly passionate speakers, including I discussing where the media and marketing is going wrong but more importantly we’ll discuss the positive future of the [...]
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Myleene Klass Littlewoods Advert – That’s not the only ideal!
I don’t know if you’ve seen the new Littlewoods advert featuring Myleene Klass, if not I’ve put it below for your perusal. I like how up beat and happy the commercial is, it will no doubt put people in a good mood. There is a however though. The first issue is that all the women [...]
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A Marketing Message From Banksy
I stumbled across this image on Upworthy.com and instantly loved it’s provocative nature. The image was designed by Karina Nurdinova and uses a quote from Banksy. The spoof advert is obviously meant to look like a Coca-Cola advert. Although, the advert expresses a great point it doesn’t do marketing’s power for social change any good; which this website [...]
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Are Call To Actions Wasting People’s Time?
As most of my articles start, I was on the London Underground the other day listening to Michael Buble (That bits new) looking up at the tube adverts. I saw a Nationwide (British building society) advert, nothing striked me as unethical about it. At the bottom of the advert there was a call to action in red [...]
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Shock tactics vs Thinking tactics | Marketing Ethics
Shock tactics definitely work, or at least work at grabbing the persons attention, whether it actually changes behaviour I don’t know. I have never been a massive fan of shock tactics as they’re often very intrusive (I guess they wouldn’t be called shock tactics otherwise). The below advert is a reason why I don’t like them. [...]
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Emmaus Employs Wonderful Think Tactics For The Homeless
I wrote an article on Shock Tactics vs Think Tactics in marketing recently, focusing on the need to move away from shock tactics. I came across an advert/leaflet today by homeless [...]
Coca-Cola – Bringing India & Pakistan Together
It appears Coca-Cola are all over CSR currently, regardless of why they are doing it it’s good to see them putting so much effort into promoting it. Their latest initiative called ‘Coca-Cola [...]
Transformational Media Initiatve Event – Hear Me Speak!
Jeremy Wickremer is hosting and The Transformational Media Initiative is holding an event called ‘The Positive Future of Media’ on June 19th at 7pm in London (Hub Westmister). They have [...]
What are your narratives? Ethical Marketing
“Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.” ~ John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968 [...]
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Coca-Cola launches in splittable can to share
Coca-Cola have released a splittable can as part of their recent campaign based around sharing a Coke with your friends. This is a great marketing campaign, and although it’s still [...]











