Tag Archives: advertising

Purpose of advertising

19 Apr

Interesting article on Molblog yesterday, Feli Halve concludes that advertising is the fee for being unremarkable. Her examples include origami tea bags and tea labels. While I agree with her statement that a remarkable product is more important than advertising I think she could’ve explored the notion much deeper. The article is written in Dutch so be warned!

Een uitspraak van Robert Stephens van de Geeksquad. Uiteraard is de werkelijkheid niet zo zwart-wit, maar er zit natuurlijk wel een grote kern van waarheid in. Het verbaast me dan ook keer op keer dat er zoveel bedrijven zo weinig aandacht besteden aan hun fysieke product en/of de customer journey. Over dit aspect zou je een boek vol kunnen schrijven (misschien moet ik dat ook eens gaan doen, als ik tijd over heb). Maar voor deze blog beperkt ik me even tot de aandacht voor het fysieke product.

Read the full article at Molblog.nl

Economic downturn settling in?

17 Dec

In this press release, TNS Media Intelligence talks about the changes in the US advertising market. And it seems the 1.7% across-the-board decline leads to the conclusion that the economic down-turn, that was already noted superficially in 2007 is setting in to stay.

But is this true? Ofcourse, a 1.7% decline in the biggest advertising in the world is a big sign, but we’re talking about a country that is seeing one of its biggest employers slipping (car industry) and while the president-elect shows signals of hope, the rest of the world, and especially the national businesses are not that positive for the coming year. After the read more I’ll show the table that lead them to these conclusions.

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