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Ryan Skinner MIT Media Labs may have helped put a fork in the monolithic approach to branding in 2011. Today great brands are less recognizable by a particular color palette than by a tonal, or spiritual, or conceptual ‘je ne sais quoi’ that breathes th…
In April 2017, I completed a Wave report on content marketing platforms (CMPs) – specifically, Contently, Kapost, NewsCred, Opal, Percolate, ScribbleLive, Skyword, Spredfast, and Sprinklr – for B2C marketers. B2B marketers asked: What about us? Which p…
I’ve always been drawn to small. I suspect it’s because I started out small. Not in the “all-babies-start-out-small-duh-forrester-analyst” way, but in the “this-kid-is-undersized-for-his-age-what’s-wrong-with-him” way. A late growth spurt made all that go away, but it left me with a lingering fondness for smallness. Small can be good. But is small, good, in marketing? The activist […]
The Whole Foods acquisition by Amazon weeks ago was only the latest milepost in the latter’s inexorable march to the top of retail. The company sold $136 billion worth of products in 2016 – more than any other online retailer (and just over a third of what Wal-Mart did). And we find that Amazon is big and gaining […]