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A recap of IPA Effworks Global 2021 from Talon newcomer Lucy Baumgartner With the promise of the best new thinking and evidence-based decision-making research for marketing effectiveness in the world, IPA EffWorks Global 2021 hit the ground running last Tuesday ...

Many thanks to the many readers who have supported MAA over the past two years via your contributions. We’ve been overwhelmed by the support, from one-off to regular donations, and it’s been a real boon in the seeming never-ending pandemic. ...

Been writing aabout advertising and marketing – on and off – for quite a while now so how come “funnels” and “ladders” (they seem to mean roughly the same thing but may not) have eluded me? Ignorance, obviously. But they ...

I must say, I nearly choked on my breakfast beer when I read that Dell is putting Yara Shahidi, the actress and model from the ABC sitcom Black-ish in ads and other promotions to tout Dell’s new slogan, “Expand Your ...

Remember when subliminal advertising was deemed a threat to humankind? No? Well it was “the use by advertisers of images and sounds to influence consumers’ responses without their being consciously aware of it.” First discovered, allegedly, in 1947 when it ...

Times have changed. Thirty or so years ago Ron Collins did a radio ad for Bergasol in which the voice changed from white to black. There was a Silk Cut ad recreating the film ’Zulu’ in which the cigarettes were ...

With the approaching obsolescence of third-party cookies, marketers must reimagine how they optimise digital campaigns, strengthen audience connections, and build relevant ad experiences. Digital advertising’s precision targeting and measurement capabilities have placed performance under the microscope, but this has drawn ...

The recipe for successful CX implementation. I’m not a good cook beyond the basics. Ask me to make anything fancy and I can guarantee the flavours of soap and the texture of a walrus’ behind. My only culinary claim to ...

There were some pretty wacky ads around at the turn of the century and this was assuredly one of them, PlayStation’s ‘Mental Wealth’ from TBWA, RSA and CGI wizard Chris Cunningham for The Mill. She didn’t really look like that ...