Tagged: advertising

What is Facebook worth?

The arguments about valuing Facebook et al at astronomical prices all rely on the fact that it will provide extremely pertinent consumer information for targeting advertising. So we are basically saying that their chief commercial interest is as an ancillary service for real-world marketing, where real consumers part with real dollars to purchase real products [...]

Fair & not so Lovely: when individual product branding fails

People have talked about the conflicting messages from Dove and Vaseline Fair & Lovely as being perfectly reasonable branding – Unilever tailoring its brands’ advertising so it addresses different beauty trends in two different markets. It’s still a problem for Unilever, however, because those marketing campaigns haven’t stayed safely confined to their own markets – [...]