STOP BUYING REACH AND START EARNING IT
Media is slowly suffocating social media. The relentless optimisation towards media efficiency and mass reach is resulting in shorter, less effective social banner adverts. This is disrupting people’s experience of social and not shifting brand metrics. It is time marketeers shifted their focus away from paid reach and towards organic resonance, writes Jack Colchester, Senior →
What’s love got to do with it?
By Thomas Wagner Brand love should be dead. Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg Bass Institute should have seen →
Labs goes global
A few months ago we asked ourselves what might come next for BBH Labs. Well, it might have taken →
WHY EXACTLY WAS THAT AD SO GOOD?
Written by: Lucian Trestler, Strategy Director, BBH London As our last post hinted at, we’re getting a little obsessed with feeling here at BBH. Nigel Bogle has always said ‘sell through the heart’. We’ve always known it. The problem with feeling is it can get a little vague – make people happy. Make people cry. →
Making the Right Magic Win
A BBH LA POV on Trump’s America and the post-truth media world. If you’ve read Paul Feldwick’s latest book retracing →
Foresight, Hindsight & Insight
It is sadly ironic that The Simpsons predicted the outcome of the presidential election 16 years ago, while almost all of the polls and predictions run by the media just before the 8th November 2016 were wrong. Again, I might add, having experienced a very similar phenomenon just a few months ago following the Brexit →
Can we really make a difference?
Written by Lilli English (Head of Strategy, BBH London) I woke up in the early hours of Wednesday morning and immediately looked at my phone. There it was, Trump in the lead. I check Facebook shortly after. My feed is having a meltdown. Outrage, disgust, emoji-sobbing, mocking. I consider joining in. And then realise: it’ll →
What’s next?
That is the question that BBH Labs has always asked. When I walked into the office this morning, →
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