Archives for Mai, 2009

WAR! Looks like O2 have shot themselves in the foot with their new marketing campaign supposing to promote a new product named O2O. Let's hope their efforts result in demotion. Because that is what they deserve after declaring war on several German cities.


Some people have asked me why on earth I stick around the advertising and communiction biz when I oppose most of what it does and resembles while having so little influence on it as a whole. Isn’t it a bit like David against Goliath? Won’t the enemy retain the upper hand and crush any form [...]


The other day I attended a conference and one of the speakers articulated a cute sounding theory, that every company should see and structure itself, perform and interact with its audience like a „rock band“. I liked this approach very much, even though I thought the presentation could have made more sense and the “rockbandism” [...]


It's bad enough crime when people steal from others, but when multi-billion corporate brands do so and simply to mislead the public, then we've reached the top of the ladder and the highest category of embarrasment.