Contributed by Martin Lindstrom

  • Hardwired to Love Brands

    Why are "mirror neurons" so relevant to marketers? Because they reveal why we're hardwired to imitate, cradle to grave. ...

  • The Luxury Catch-22

    In the luxury brand business, stretching brands too thinly across market segments may gain short-term revenue increases, but it also ...

  • Operation Beijing: What PR Is Doing Wrong

    There's a lot that China could do better, like every country in the world. But the Beijing Olympics PR machine ...

  • The Engagement Game

    Your media plan likely contains all the usual, well-known media options: TV and radio ads, print ads and outdoor advertising. ...

  • Make Your Marketing Budget Work - Halve It

    What's the trick to starting afresh? Be prepared to seriously start over and establish strategies to keep your brand from ...

  • Living Branding = The Branded Life

    There is a new wave of branding that aims to occupy every minute of the customer's day with an unbroken ...

  • Moving Madison Avenue: Finding Advertising Ideas Elsewhere

    What will happen when ideas become commodities just like everything else? Some people certainly buy ads from advertising agencies on ...

  • Micro Branding—Macro Results

    The better you are at involving your customers in the philosophy of your brand, the better they'll understand why you're ...

  • Blazing Trails to Brand Leadership

    How come some brands are great, while others manage to be just good? Is there a trick up the sleeves ...

  • Naked Branding

    Does sex sell? You bet it does. But there's another essential element that goes hand-in-hand with sex. And that's controversy.

  • Dynamite Branding

    As YouTube, Google and MySpace announce that video advertising will become a key driver in their future revenue strategies, the ...