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Mark Ritson10 min read

‘Triple-Cooked Marketing Budgets’: The full recipe

Marketing budgeting is flawed. Marketers are more confused about budgeting than ever ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Look at your brand from the customer’s perspective, not the other way round

Responses to the Queen’s death show marketers think brands have a place in consumers’ ...
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For Omega and Swatch, the rewards of co-branding could be astronomical

Far from cannibalising Omega’s luxury sales, the collaboration with Swatch on the £200 ...
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Mark Ritson13 min read

An ethnography of pricing: How and why marketers should put up prices

Inflation means price increases are marketing’s number-one priority for 2022. But how ...
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Mark Ritson10 min read

Good purpose, bad purpose: Marketers shouldn’t oversimplify the arguments

Brand purpose campaigns underperform ‘traditional’ marketing on average, but for the ...
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If your distinctive brand assets are exclusively visual it’s time to come to your (other) senses

Visual cues are all very well but don’t forget the other four senses when developing ...
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If the old logo ain’t broke, fix it anyway: Ritson’s rules for playing with brand codes

Those questioning the updates to Heinz’s slogan and the British Rail logo miss the ...
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Tom Kerridge’s prices aren’t a rip-off if they’re what the market will pay

Forget worshipping at the altar of revenue. Marketers who take a leaf out of Tom ...
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Mark Ritson10 min read

P&G and Coke’s pandemic performances prove it: You don’t cut ad spend in a crisis

Procter & Gamble doubled down on marketing when Covid hit, while Coca-Cola went dark. ...
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