(Great cause too)
Author: bmmarketer
Mediocre brands sell ‘product’. Great brands sell ‘value’.
Alex M H Smith, strategist
Paying homage to Heinz Ketchup’s brilliant, long-running advertising
Not your usual car advert
Many car ads are boringly predictable. I respect Suzuki for trying something new, with this Good Different campaign
Beautiful McDonald’s Open-24 Hours poster
Fun advert for a karate school

An idea is anything – a theme, rhetorical device or graphic element – that changes a sales message from mere information to persuasive communication.
Suzanne Pope, advertising Creative Director
I love this advert for rapid drawing game Pictionary
You can’t buy something you’ve never heard of
Orlando Wood and Sir John Hegarty, advertising and creativity experts – on the importance of building your company’s brand
Bravery. A B2B marketing poem, by Brian Macreadie
It’s lonelier on the road less travelled
It’s isolated on the open sea
It’s scary walking all alone
Pioneering requires bravery
Because it’s harder finding discoveries
where many have trampled before
If we aspire to make breakthroughs
we must venture and explore
And just as fresh discoveries
are best found on new terrain
It’s only fresh marketing tactics
that bring extraordinary gains
You can’t win hearts and minds
with marketing that’s boring
Trying evocative tactics is
both more fun and more rewarding
Plus repeating tired old formulas
is also forgettably unfulfilling
And it almost certainly won’t
get our target audiences clicking
We’re each contesting competitive ground
and must carve out a distinctive place
But there’s more room at the margins
Pushing boundaries creates space
And finding space from others
is the way to get us seen
It’s easier standing out when
you’re not one of the sardines
So it’s not risky being different
It’s risky not standing apart
Being distinctive’s not a brave move
It’s simply being smart
So go where others aren’t
and try what others won’t
Experiment more than rivals
and do the things they don’t
Let’s take the road less travelled
and sail on open seas
Let’s try doing something special
and reveal wondrous opportunities

