Corporate AI strategy, done well, is not about adopting the most tools or publishing the most ambitious roadmap. It is about making deliberate decisions on where AI creates genuine commercial value, and being honest about where it does not. Most companies are failing that test, not because they lack ambition, but because they are treating…
AI in advertising is no longer a horizon story. It is operational, embedded in bidding systems, creative workflows, audience targeting, and measurement frameworks across the industry right now. The question is not whether AI will reshape advertising, it already has. The question is which changes will compound into genuine competitive advantage and which are noise…
AI image generation has made it faster and cheaper than ever to produce brand visuals. That is not the same as saying it has made it easier to build a coherent brand world. The distinction matters commercially, and most businesses are not making it. Brand world building is the deliberate construction of a visual and…
The best brand campaigns in history share one quality that gets overlooked in every post-mortem: they were built on a clear commercial problem, not a creative brief looking for a reason to exist. The campaigns that get remembered, studied, and occasionally stolen by competitors were not accidents of inspiration. They were the result of someone…
A campaign measurement framework is a structured system that defines what you will measure, how you will measure it, and what the results actually mean for the business, before a single pound or dollar is spent. Without one, you are not measuring a campaign. You are collecting data and calling it measurement. Most marketing teams…
Mobile marketing challenges are not always dramatic. They rarely announce themselves. More often, they show up as campaigns that underperform despite solid creative, attribution models that look clean but tell you almost nothing useful, and audiences who technically received your message but never engaged with it. The gap between mobile’s promise and mobile’s reality is…
Dove’s Real Beauty campaign is one of the most studied and debated marketing efforts of the last two decades. Launched in 2004, it repositioned a soap brand around a cultural conversation about women’s self-image, generated sustained commercial growth, and became a reference point for purpose-driven marketing that actually sells. What made it work was not…
The best digital marketing campaigns of 2024 shared a quality that has nothing to do with production budgets or platform innovation: they were built around a clear commercial problem, not a creative brief looking for a reason to exist. That distinction matters more than most award write-ups acknowledge. I’ve judged the Effie Awards, which means…
WPP, Publicis, IPG, Omnicom, and Dentsu are all racing to embed AI into their core advertising and media offerings. The differences between them are not cosmetic. The strategic bets each holding group has made reflect genuinely different theories about where AI creates value in advertising, and those choices will have commercial consequences for clients over…
Sweetgreen branding works because it was never really about salad. From the start, the brand positioned itself around a set of values, a way of eating, and a cultural identity that made the product almost secondary to the feeling of buying it. That is a genuinely difficult thing to build, and most brands that attempt…
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