3 Keys to Finding the Best Celebrity Endorsement for Your Brand
Featured on the ANA: — Read the published ANA article — Two years ago, the Lincoln Motor Co. needed help. Following a long skid, the Dearborn, Mich.–based luxury car company was coming off a reported 32-year low in sales. Once considered a leader of the American car industry, the brand had become an afterthought for […]
Relationship Capital
ANA Final Say By Bruno Gralpois As we celebrate the ANA’s 100th Anniversary and its vibrant history of advertising, it’s a good time to reflect on our vast and ever-growing arsenal of weapons of mass persuasion and ask ourselves: What clever combination of stones may we have left unturned? Following years of economic progress driven […]
Managing (Agency) Mania
Featured on AdWeek: — Read AdWeek’s published article — If it’s news to you that the client/agency model has been in flames for years now, there’s also this new thing called the Internet that you might want to know about. Of course, there’s a big difference between just saying that the old setup is shot […]
What Will You Get Your Agency for the Holidays? The Gift of Stronger Partnerships
Download a print-friendly version here Thinking outside the gift box… The holidays, a time of both deep reflection and high festivities, are right around the corner. We pause near the end of each year to celebrate those around us, those we love and depend on, and to acknowledge their importance in our lives. In business, […]
How the Winner of the Mobile Grand Prix Cannes Lions Signals the Supremacy of Content and the Slow Death of Traditional Advertising
Download a print-friendly version here This Piece of Cardboard Will Take You Halfway Around the World Advertising is dead, long live branded content! Advertising was king. A new monarch is now succeeding it to the marketing throne: branded content. For the history aficionados, the original phrase (“The King is Dead, Long Live the King!”) was […]
What Great Clients do to Turn Their Agencies Into Powerful Growth Engines
What Will Make You a Kick-Ass Client Are you the kind of client that agencies desperately want to acquire and retain? Do you know what it takes to be a great client? In “Think Different,” I emphasized the unique qualities industry leaders like Apple exhibit with their agencies to get outstanding work. In “How Clients […]
The Uneasy Truth About Being a Client and What It Means to Building Lasting Partnerships in Today’s Cut-Throat Environment
Confessions of an Ex-Client I’d like to confess. Actually, I have multiple confessions to make. Four to be precise. No worries. This is not a remake of “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (2002), so they won’t keep you up at night. But if you’ve ever been a client, you too would have much to say. […]
Top 5 Ways Brand Advertisers Can Foster Real, Sustained Collaboration Between Their Roster Agencies and Create Better, Faster, Stronger Work…Together
Download a print-friendly version here How Marketers Can Get Their Agencies to Collaborate The first part of “Ménage à trois” comes from the Latin mansionem, “dwelling,” and old French word that meant “management of a household.” The concept of managing and orchestrating a carefully assembled roster of agencies has been particularly popular among brand advertisers […]
Committing to Reciprocal Feedback Before Making Agency Review Decision
Download a print-friendly version here Le Divorce I’ve been told all my life that everything sounds sexier in French, from ordering wine from the Bordeaux region at the dinner table to whispering “c’est la vie” after missing a connecting flight. Almost everything I might add. There are some words that, no matter the pronunciation, still […]
