The Maxwell House rebrand is a case study in what happens when a brand mistakes activity for strategy. After decades of declining relevance, the brand launched a visual and positioning overhaul intended to reconnect with modern coffee drinkers. What it revealed instead was a deeper problem that no logo refresh can fix: when a brand…
Google’s cookieless future is not a single event that arrives on a fixed date. It is a structural shift in how digital advertising works, one that has been unfolding for years and will continue to reshape how marketers reach, measure, and retain audiences. The third-party cookie is functionally dead in Chrome, not by deletion but…
IPG’s AI strategy is one of the more coherent plays to emerge from the holding company world. Rather than announcing a single AI product and calling it a transformation, IPG has been building AI into its media planning infrastructure, creative production workflows, and data capabilities in a way that reflects how agencies actually operate at…
Innovative marketing strategies are approaches that break from category convention to reach new audiences, shift perception, or create demand that wasn’t previously there. The best recent examples share one quality: they solve a genuine business problem rather than chasing novelty for its own sake. After two decades running agencies and managing significant ad budgets across…
Coca-Cola’s AI-generated advertising has become one of the most discussed experiments in modern marketing, and not entirely for the right reasons. The brand used generative AI to recreate its iconic 1995 “Holidays Are Coming” Christmas ad, and the reaction was swift, polarised, and genuinely instructive for anyone thinking seriously about where this technology fits in…
Marketing silos exist when teams, data, and decisions operate in isolation from each other, producing fragmented customer experiences and wasted budget. They are not primarily a structural problem. They are a commercial problem, and they cost more than most marketing leaders are willing to admit. The fix is not a new org chart or a…
Agencies combining linear and digital video strategy are treating television and streaming not as competing channels but as complementary parts of a single audience plan. The approach is straightforward: broadcast builds reach and brand weight at scale, while digital layers in precision, frequency control, and measurable response. Used together, they cover ground that neither can…
Liquid Death marketing campaigns work because the brand made a single, irreversible decision early on: it would rather be ignored by most people than be forgettable to everyone. That choice, more than any individual campaign, explains why a company selling canned water in a crowded beverage market has built a brand with genuine cultural weight….
Marketing predictions are everywhere at the start of every year, and most of them age badly. Not because the people making them lack intelligence, but because they’re optimising for attention rather than accuracy. The ones worth paying attention to are grounded in structural shifts, not surface-level trend-spotting. What follows isn’t a list of things that…
Marketing industry publications are where the profession talks to itself. Some of that conversation is genuinely useful. A lot of it is not. Knowing which sources sharpen your thinking and which ones quietly dull it is one of the more underrated skills a senior marketer can develop. The landscape spans trade press, research houses, academic…
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