More Marketers Embracing Brandverbing
June 20, 20112 min
“Google it.” “Did you Xerox the report?” “Please FedEx it.”
NEW THINKING
“Google it.” “Did you Xerox the report?” “Please FedEx it.”
What holds brands back from innovation and market leadership is the same element that holds people back: FEAR!
This is David Ogilvy’s Centennial – he was born 100 years ago this month, in 1911. He was the most famous advertising man in the world, and to a large extent still is. He was the most important man in the business, changing it in fundamental ways.
Marketing and management are at war in today’s boardrooms.
David Ogilvy had been in the advertising business only 15 years when he wrote “Confessions of an Advertising Man” in 1962.