Think BR: When the Chinese talk about air... what does that mean?
28 Dec 2011 | by John Coll
Western brands wanting to succeed in China need to shed their assumptions, writes John Coll, director, Ipsos MORI.
Last year was a great 12 months for online video and 2012 looks like being even better, writes Dara Nasr, industry head of display for YouTube UK.
Western brands wanting to succeed in China need to shed their assumptions, writes John Coll, director, Ipsos MORI.
YouTube is making a further push into professional content with the launch of more than 100 new channels, which will contain videos from celebrities such as Madonna and Ashton Kutcher and publishers such as The Wall Street Journal.
For brands facing insolvency it is vital that lucrative intangibles are separated from their poorer performing counterparts, writes Stuart Whitwell, managing director, Intangible Business.
With diet trends pushing sandwich retailers to generate more innovative, interesting food for out of home consumption, what's next for the humble sandwich, ask Chris Molloy and Mel Jackson of Brand Potential.
Modern retailers need to get to grips with data to respond to the current and future needs of their customers, write Tim Watson, strategy director at Ogilvy Action, and Richard Matthews, head of customer insight at Logica.
New product launches often fail and it can sometimes be difficult identifying why, writes Doug Findlay, director at Ipsos Marketing.
It has never been easier to find out how people talk about brands, write Caroline O'Donoghue, account manager at Brandwatch and Andrew Blakeley, social strategist at DDB.
While trends are everywhere at this time of year, what we really need is a new action standard for insight, writes Richard Huntington, director of strategy, Saatchi & Saatchi.
I absolutely love Christmas advertising. It helps to get me in the festive mood. But I'm finding a lot of this year's offerings disappointing, misguided and worst of all - lazy. So what's been the issue this year?