How Marketing Can Be the Hero and not the Handmaiden to The Anti-Heroes Of The Digital Age

Once in a while comes along a book or a body of thought that impacts one highly because it is both revolutionary in its newness while at the same time being resonant with one’s deepest notions of self and society. This post is the result of one such book that has crystalized in me a marketing project of global scope and deep societal impact that I hope to evangelize over the coming years. Write to me if you want to join in this nascent effort

Decoding Creative Advertising – Addressing The Highest Common Denominator (HCD)

Here is the second of the series “Decoding Creative Advertising” where I reference Apple’s advertising over the decades to discern a greatness-making creative strategy driving some of their campaigns. The first of this series was published on my blog on June 3 where I examined the creative strategy driving the Volkswagen Beetle campaign of the 50s.

Decoding Creative Advertising – Mining The Gestalt

Today’s post is the first in a new series titled “Decoding Creative Advertising” In my experience the sobriquet “creative” applies to a very small number of advertising campaigns. Campaigns that are created by people who break the rules of advertising not because they can but because their mastery of them allows them to transcend them. I undertake the decoding of some such campaigns as an exercise in refreshing the sense of possibilities inherent in the art of advertising.

The True Promise of AI in Marketing

The True Promise of AI in Marketing
I believe the use of analytic and AI in marketing till date has not just been sub-optimal but in the wrong direction. This post briefly points out a new direction

Advertising and The P versus NP Problem

These days I spend a lot of time learning where AI and Deep Learning are going and musing their use in strategy and marketing. This post is a side-product of my ongoing pondering