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By Bob Reaume Ipsos Reid’s ‘Most Influential Brands in Canada’ ranking was released during this week’s Ad Week events and Canadian’s seem to be quite enamored with technology companies.

Mike Lavery, President and Managing Director, Alliance for Audited Media From our foundation verifying circulation claims to auditing cross-channel media today, the Alliance for Audited Media has brought credibility to the media industry for 100 years and counting. AAM is celebrating its centennial year in 2014. As much as the media industry has changed throughout […]

By Ben Kelly, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Niche (Niche) In the media-verse, there have traditionally been 3 media channels: Earned, Paid, and Owned. However, a new media channel has emerged in recent years, called Shared Media, and, while still a fresh and untapped frontier, it has the potential to rival the other media […]

This is the second article in a series on marketing technology by Marketing-IT expert, Gilbert Sabat. Read the first article: Marketing and IT, unlikely partners in the delivery of extraordinary brand marketing. By Gilbert Sabat, Founder & CEO of MM4L Canada Inc. The first article I wrote on marketing technology focused on how an organization […]

By Bob Reaume, ACA It being January, every advertising pundit and their cousin are busy doing their look at ‘The New Year Ahead.’ But because the ACA’s focus is on issues that matter to client-marketers, I think you’ll find this list a bit different from most everything else you’ll read out there. The ACA monitors […]

Let’s stop the craziness.

After sitting on the sidelines attending a variety of industry conferences over the past five years and listening to more than one pundit state emphatically that companies don’t create brands customers do, it’s time to call balderdash.

Times have changed but brand creation has not. If companies have relegated the creation, management and nourishing of brands to consumers I’d argue they’re just plain lazy.