by Ian Murray | Nov 25, 2020 | Advertising
Since 2018, I’ve written three whitepapers with Andrew Tenzer that you may have heard of if you work in the UK media, marketing and advertising industries. It’s been an interesting experience seeing ‘Gut Instinct’, The Empathy Delusion’ and ‘The...
by Ian Murray | Jul 2, 2020 | Advertising
There’s an old saying about never wasting a good crisis. As recent events have shown, if you are out to change the world, unexpected events that disrupt people’s habits and norms provide ideal ‘moments of change’. So, it’s unsurprising that many people in our...
by Ian Murray | Jul 2, 2020 | Advertising
Last week we launched ‘The Aspiration Window’, our new study with Reach Solutions. Building on our themes from ‘The Empathy Delusion’ and ‘Gut Instinct’ we show how marketers misunderstand mainstream goals and aspirations. We link...
by Ian Murray | May 22, 2020 | Advertising, Behavioural Economics, Empathy
We’ve been busy working on our new research with Andrew Tenzer and Reach Solutions. Our new whitepaper, ‘The Aspiration Window’ will be launched at the end of June. More details to follow shortly. We warmed up with a free webinar on our award winning...
by Ian Murray | Apr 9, 2020 | Advertising, Empathy, Oblique strategy
The Coronavirus crisis has created one massive accidental social experiment in adland. The crisis constrains and reduces every aspect of everyone’s social and economic lives. And it’s put the creative process and how marketers understand and engage with...
by Ian Murray | Nov 21, 2019 | Advertising, Behavioural Economics, Empathy
‘a shift in attentional style has led to advertising losing its humanity and its ability to entertain; it has turned sour’. A big thanks to Orlando Wood, from System1 for referencing our research in Lemon his excellent new book published by the IPA (and for the...
