Category: In-Market Tracking
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MASB’s Game Changing Brand Investment and Valuation Project – Part I
How much is my brand worth in financial terms? How much will my marketing grow its value? Despite their seeming simplicity, these two questions have frustrated brand practitioners for decades. It is well accepted that there is a link between brand building activities and corporate profits. After all, the entire field of marketing is based…
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Is Brand Preference Marketing’s Higgs Boson?
Chances are you have heard of the Higgs Boson, an elusive elementary particle that physicists have spent the last fifty years and billions of dollars to find. Reports of its potential discovery have captured headlines around the globe. If verified, not only will it help cement our mathematical understanding of how the universe works, but…
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2014: A year for radical change in advertising formats?
1941 was a turning point in the history of marketing. On July 1 of that year, the world’s first paid television commercial aired. Costing the Bulova Watch Company $9 it was a pre-roll to a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. Simple in nature, just a graphic and a voice-over, the…