Trend watch: Is AI really killing traditional SEO?
There is a certain panic among digital marketeers as AI is claimed to change the game of search engine marketing respectively SEO. There are saying…
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Marketing is going from complicated to complex- How to adapt
Marketing as a business function always has been perceived by the people working in it as tough. Some might also use the word complex for…
How to research relevant marketing & business trends?
Research is the foundation of every strategic work, or at least it should be. But research has become especially in the field of marketing more…
A new boost for marketing mix modelling?
Marketing mix modelling has been around as a technique or a tools for quite some time but as of my experience was always a niche…
How Brand Building Drives Performance in the Digital Age
WARC is one of my favorite source (and it should be yours too) for marketing insights with excellent content and studies. Recently they published another…
Marketing Myth: We are exposed to 10.000 ads per day
People are more and more exposed to advertising messages throughout the day – at least that is our subjective impression. Furthermore this is also what…
The rebrand of Jaguar – Go woke and/or go broke?
The hottest topic this week among marketing people and the adland was the announced re-branding of the luxury car maker Jaguar. They pivot from a…
Why wearout in advertising basically doesn’t exists
The concept of ad wearout – the idea that a campaign initially works and then loses its impact – is not new. But perhaps this…
The truth about short term performance and long term brand building
2 weeks ago I wrote a posting on Linkedin featuring an article in the popular German business & management magazine WirtschaftsWoche that quoted popular marketing…
The case of Nike and the power of distribution
There was a lot of buzz recently about Nike and its CEO John Donahoe, who got dismissed from his precious position after all. The economical…