A while ago we published an article revealing seven of the most creative and inspiring campaigns we had seen. Quite simply – this is the polar opposite! Here are the seven worst direct marketing campaigns we have come across to date… 1.This brochure for a “Fast Cash CD-ROM System” is comical in its own right and […]
What do Take That, Robert Downey Jr and nineties fashion have in common? Over the last few years, they’ve all made a pretty remarkable comeback. The same can be said for direct mail – after years of junk mail going straight in the recycling bin, until our daily post dwindled down to the occasional bank […]
This week it’s time to think of a different kind of B2B marketing…that’s right, we’re talking about getting back to basics. We’ve said it before, it’s a crowded market out there, and it’s becoming more and more difficult to make your brand’s voice heard. Recently we’ve noticed a new trend which appears to be dominating […]
These days it’s more often than not the case that craft was a crucial component to a great weekend. You probably remember it fondly (or not) from yours. But it hasn’t always been that way. An imported manifestation from our across-the-pond friends, and originally the tipple of dads and sports fans and part-time micro-brewers, craft […]
It’s 2014 and TIME magazine has just run an article on DataCoup, a self-described “personal data marketplace” where consumers could, for the first time, cut out the middle man in advertising and sell their private data directly to businesses themselves. Over the next year, founder Matt Hogan finds himself in the spotlight – interviewed, praised and even rejected […]
