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What if you ran a pitch and nobody came?
Many pitches have been postponed to later this year, so we can expect a bubble in the new business market. How will you ensure that the...
David Meikle
Jul 21, 20203 min read
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It’s about time – Why are agencies and their clients chained to the billable hour?
Click here to link to this article on ISBA's website.
David Meikle
Jul 13, 20201 min read
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Beware the Intermediary ‘Opportunity Racket’
A cautionary word to advertisers: a good intermediary helps you find the right agency, but many employ shady funding models that...
David Meikle
May 21, 20204 min read
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As recession looms, agency leaders must take the time to think twice.
The pace of change around COVID-19 is breath-taking, but we can be pretty sure that advertising will be the first industry to suffer and...
David Meikle
Mar 16, 20203 min read
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Sloppy thinking – a rant
Without the help of Google, I have self-diagnosed a serious condition I describe as “simplicity fatigue”. More accurately perhaps, it...
David Meikle
Aug 7, 20193 min read
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Train hard, fight easy and the art of war
My son is coming to the end of year five in his primary school, but like many in his year group he has already finished the year six...
David Meikle
Jun 11, 20194 min read
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Gorillas are not for everybody.
Gorilla campaigns are those campaigns that stop you in your tracks, make you think twice or make you join some of the dots yourself....
David Meikle
Jun 6, 20192 min read
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Why the outcry over poor pitch practices?
Adweek recently reported that General Millsis one of the latest advertisers to be subject to the outcries of the ad industry for their...
David Meikle
Jun 6, 20194 min read
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Three thoughts to help level the procurement playing field.
There’s a quote from Mark Twain at the beginning of the movie The Big Short that caught my attention yesterday. “It ain’t what you don’t...
David Meikle
Jan 23, 20197 min read
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Anybody can cook a steak.
This was the observation of an online friend of mine, Derek Walker. His full post read: “Cooking a steak is the easiest thing to do. Buy...
David Meikle
Jan 8, 20194 min read
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The Keystone Argument for Advertising.
As we approach the ICA Agency Transformation Summit in May, we should be ruminating a little more about how we can better define and...
David Meikle
Apr 23, 20185 min read
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The Campaign A-List FFS
Earlier this month I enjoyed thumbing through the new Campaign A-List as much as the next person, I’m sure, but did anybody else enjoy...
David Meikle
Feb 26, 20183 min read
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One month in – stressed yet?
To most of us, the rest and recuperation we had to varying degrees over Christmas is but a dim and ever distant memory, but many in the...
David Meikle
Jan 31, 20185 min read
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Groundhog day.
My cynical predictions for 2018 are: That most business leaders will dig out their plans for 2017, change the date to 2018 and little...
David Meikle
Jan 8, 20181 min read
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When is a lemon not a lemon?
Gorilla Of course it’s not a gorilla, it’s a lemon. And here is the ad that inspired. In it, Bill Bernbach – one of the godfathers of...
David Meikle
Dec 29, 20172 min read
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Is your brand match-fit for Brexit?
When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18th, 1980 in Washington State, over 200 square miles of vegetation was flattened in little more...
David Meikle
Oct 24, 20176 min read
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How do you solve a problem like marketing procurement?
Well, in all fairness, probably not by starting with an antagonistic headline like this one. Marketing procurement repeatedly seems to...
David Meikle
Sep 27, 20174 min read
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Three ways to get better at your job. A rant.
Read a book. And another. Repeat step 1. No, seriously. Would you hire an architect who hadn’t read about architecture? Or a lawyer who...
David Meikle
Sep 15, 20172 min read
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Are you choosing an agency or getting the leftovers?
As agency tenure has declined the new business market for agencies has, of course, naturally increased. In a busy new business market,...
David Meikle
Jul 26, 20171 min read
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Brands must forge their own paths.
Earlier this year Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer at Proctor & Gamble, made a significant and important speech at the 4A’s...
David Meikle
Jun 28, 20173 min read
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