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    Brand strategy, positioning, and evidence-based marketing frameworks.

    Your ROI is the wrong number, says Peter Field

    Your ROI is the wrong number, says Peter Field

    Marketing has been optimising the smaller number for a decade. New IPA Effectiveness data: ROI is 11% of what makes campaigns work. Budget is 89%. The size problem we don't admit.

    StrategyMay 15, 2026
    How to Find a Great Insight (Alone, Right Now And Without a Research Agency)

    How to Find a Great Insight (Alone, Right Now And Without a Research Agency)

    Ten techniques for digging up a real human truth, an AI that runs them on your brief in a minute, and a one-click Google-grounded research feature that either confirms the insight or politely tells you it is fiction. Exportable to a PPTX before the client meeting.

    StrategyApr 17, 2026
    A History of Insight in Quotes, From the People Who Invented It

    A History of Insight in Quotes, From the People Who Invented It

    From Bernbach to Pollard - eleven quotes that trace how advertising learned to tell insights apart from findings, and why the best ads still stand on one sharp human truth.

    StrategyApr 17, 2026
    The Brand Reset: Why Your 'Cheap' Clicks Are Killing Your Equity

    The Brand Reset: Why Your 'Cheap' Clicks Are Killing Your Equity

    New data from the industry-first 'Brand Reset' study proves that chasing cheap impressions is a one-way ticket to the marketing doom loop. Here is the science.

    Marketing NewsStrategyApr 14, 2026
    10 Ways How to Turn Vanilla Observations into Real Insights

    10 Ways How to Turn Vanilla Observations into Real Insights

    If I have to read one more strategy deck that claims 'moms want the best for their children' or 'Gen Z values authenticity,' I am going to throw my MacBook into a canal.

    StrategyTips & TricksProduct NewsApr 11, 2026
    Beyond the Pink: Why Subversive Strategy Wins the Gender War

    Beyond the Pink: Why Subversive Strategy Wins the Gender War

    Stop the 'Pink It and Shrink It' nonsense. We’re diving into the campaigns that actually moved the needle on gender equality without the corporate cringe.

    StrategyCreativityApr 4, 2026
    Why we called it selfstorming, not brainstorming

    Why we called it selfstorming, not brainstorming

    Brainstorming was invented in 1948 by a man selling ads. The research says it is worse than working alone. So we needed the right word for what actually works - and selfstorming already did the job. We just got the .com.

    StrategyFeb 15, 2026