And hell might freeze over

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

There are so many traditional advertising agencies out there in trouble and they’re all blaming the recession. However, yes times are difficult but this is a lame duck excuse. These mainly ‘traditional’ agencies totally missed the online video trend and social media  is still frightening them. They keep banging on about the fragmented media landscape, …

It’s all Brighton and it’s all good

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The Brighton digital crowd of uber nerds, super geeks and digital deities are a difficult lot to keep up with up… what with all the groups, twittering, fashionable co-working, and of course, the awards, talks and socials it can all be a bit of a social whirl wind. For us lot here at Brightenup we …

The integration debate that isn’t

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Here we go again, the old debate about on and offline agency is back, this time new and improved with added recession. This argument is as old as the hills, so you might be inclined to think that it’s no longer cool and a bit of a yawn. However, in actual fact with the economy …

The rise and rise of digital marketing

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Let’s face it times are difficult, but digital marketing continues to demonstrate impressive growth as some other media channels are gasping there last. Agencies with broader skill bases and innovative ideas are prospering and are doing well. Now we’ve all got over the Global Credit Crunch Crisis Shock and we’re faced with ‘budget squeezing’, ‘spend …

Lipstock and two smoking barrells

Monday, December 8th, 2008

As marketers we have been raised on a healthy diet of various models for this and that – something to prove that something works because of the influence of another random product. So, being unable to wean ourselves away from the good old days I thought it would be fun to share this one with you. It made …

Brand not balance sheet

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Warren Buffett, bet you don’t know who he is? Well, he is the worlds most successful investor – I guess that’s makes him pretty good at knowing what is and isn’t a good business. Well those clever people at the Financial Times reported that at a recent talk to investors in Germany, Buffett was asked …

Economic apocalypse

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Oh dear, it appears that we have gone and got ourselves into a pickle as far as the economy goes. What with short selling and sub prime mortgaging it looks like this economic apocalypse has become a reality, which is a bit of a worry for most of us. Whatever is going to happen next? …

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