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Video - Fast, Slow, Sold? Analysing the Infamous Pot Noodle “Horn” Advert Fast, Slow, Sold? Analysing the Infamous Pot Noodle “Horn” Advert When crude humour meets clever marketing strategy Few adverts manage to be memorable, controversial, and strategically effective all at once. But the 2005 Pot Noodle
What I Learned From... Watching a Company Collapse Around Me Reflections from eight years at Arjowiggins Graphic and the reality of working inside a shrinking industry There is a particular kind of professional experience that doesn’t get talked about much. Not redundancy in isolation, not corporate restructuring, not even industry disruption in the abstract. I
International Women’s Day: What Marketers Should Really Be Talking About From suffrage to sponsorships - how brands can move beyond hashtags and into meaningful impact International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated annually on 8 March. Its roots lie in early 20th-century labour movements and suffrage campaigns. In 1910, activist Clara Zetkin proposed the idea of
World Book Day: The 5 Most Influential Marketing Books of All Time From Kotler to Sharp - the five books that shaped modern marketing thinking, influenced millions of practitioners, and still underpin the strategies we use today Every year on World Book Day, we’re encouraged to celebrate stories. As marketers, we should probably go
Customer Service and Word of Mouth: The Marketing Channel You Can’t Buy Why the conversations customers have about you may matter more than your advertising There’s a long-held assumption in marketing that word of mouth (WOM) is one of the most powerful forms of promotion. That idea is hardly controversial. What is still often underestimated,
The Slow Burn Effect in Marketing: When Momentum Builds - Or Reputation Unravels Why brand success (and brand damage) often build slowly before suddenly becoming impossible to ignore Marketing rarely behaves like a light switch. It is much closer to a dimmer; gradual, cumulative, sometimes frustratingly slow. Whether building a brand or damaging one,
What I Learned From... Growing Up With Dyslexia How understanding my own learning style turned early academic struggles into creative, professional and educational strengths “Growing up with dyslexia” sounds a bit dramatic when you say it out loud. It has the ring of a medical condition you battle heroically, rather than something that simply exists
What I Learned From... Learning Musical Instruments... And What it Taught Me About Becoming a Better Marketer How practice, theory and a tuba shaped a career in modern marketing Learning a musical instrument as a child is one of the purest forms of structured education. It demands patience, discipline, coordination, listening skills, and a
What I Learned From... Commuting And How to Turn ‘Dead Time’ into Useful Work Notes from a Southampton marketer on audiobooks, dictation, dyslexia and making the most of the miles... Commuting is one of those things nobody really wants to do, but many of us have to in order to seize the right opportunities. I
World Spay Day, Dogs and the Marketing of “Responsible Ownership”: Propaganda or Pragmatism? Rethinking World Spay Day - where animal welfare, veterinary science and legacy messaging collide in a debate that’s far less clear-cut than the traditional advice suggests Yesterday was World Spay Day. Originally launched in the 1990s to tackle growing numbers of unwanted
