When Marketing Sold a War The Swiss PR Firm That Helped Change the World's View of the Nigerian Civil War Marketing has an uncomfortable secret.We like to imagine it exists in the safe world of logos, adverts, social media campaigns and supermarket shelves. We tell ourselves marketing is about selling trainers, holidays and breakfast cereal.History
When Brand Ambassadors Go Wrong The Marketing Risks of Celebrity Endorsements There is an old marketing idea that if people admire someone, they may subconsciously transfer some of those positive feelings onto the brand they represent. In theory, it makes perfect sense. If a world-famous athlete drinks a certain sports drink, wears a particular
The Genius of the Marketing of Meat For Dogs Why brutal simplicity might be the smartest strategy in pet food right now There’s a moment in marketing when complexity becomes a crutch. When brands start layering features, benefits, ingredients, claims, sub-claims, and disclaimers on top of each other - not because it helps the
Meat for Dogs Launches with a Simple Idea: Feed Meat Meat for Dogs - the no-nonsense raw dog food brand - has entered the dog food category with a message that cuts through the noise - and doesn’t ask for permission first: Feed meat. No trends. No over-engineering. No trying to reinvent what a dog
When Cigarette Companies Bought Your Dinner How Tobacco Giants Quietly Took Over the Food Industry At first glance, cigarettes and biscuits do not appear to belong in the same corporate portfolio. One is a product widely linked to lung cancer and premature death. The other is something you might dip in a cup of tea
The Dark Arts of Marketing When Persuasion Becomes Manipulation Marketing has always walked a fine line between persuasion and manipulation. At its best, marketing helps people make informed decisions about products that improve their lives. At its worst, it nudges, tricks, and pressures consumers into behaviours they might never have chosen if they had been
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Misinformation and the Performance of Power What marketers can learn from incorrect claims, propaganda techniques and media spectacle Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the most recognisable political figures of modern British politics. Tall, archaic in tone, consciously anachronistic, and almost permanently leaning into a Victorian cosplay of authority, he is a reminder that
Why History Is Unlikely to Be Kind to Donald Trump Fast Thinking, Short Cycles, and how Future Generations May Struggle to Explain the Trump Era History has a habit of sanding down sharp edges. With time, events become patterns, personalities become case studies, and moments of chaos are reframed as lessons. That process is rarely
When Spin Meets Reality: Political, Wartime and Social Justice Propaganda Failures When States Sell Stories - and the Truth Hits Back Political propaganda has existed as long as power itself. Governments, military leaders and movements have always tried to shape reality through messaging – whether to justify wars, hide failures, maintain morale, or enforce ideology.
When Corporate Spin Backfires: From Pepsi’s Protest Fiasco to Dieselgate When Brands Try to Shape Reality - And Fail Corporations have long used persuasion, positioning and crisis PR to bend perception in their favour. Whether through glossy advertising, “values-driven” messaging or emergency comms, brands often try to steer public opinion rather than simply serve it.
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