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A brand doesn't exist on shelves—it exists in the hearts and minds of people. Your brand is the sum total of perceptions about your product in the heads of your relevant audience.

Apple has generated strong buzz for its coming iPad without advertising.

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The marketing wheel just got a new spoke, but only time will tell how that spoke supports the hub.

Our client won't shut up. They are giving away all of their intellectual capital on a daily basis through video blogging, tweeting and yammering away to any web news source that will write a couple words about them. It's completely against everything you learn in business school and it's going to tip their company. To be sure, we started out on the side of caution, but it didn't take too long for us to see the Airwalk phenomenon in action.

TREND TRANSLATION: Geolocation will catch on by this time next year with early adopters. At that point it will be a fertile ground for marketers to early-adopt geolocation strategies in their marketing plans - mobile or otherwise.

That’s my twitteresque,140 character take on the future of facebook and other social networking apps. I’m betting that they’ve alredy started the long, slow Myspace-like crawl into oblivion because platforms like Facebook Connect, Google’ Friend Connect, Google Wave and even MySpace ID (what I was going to term ‘social media 2.0’ but have settled instead on ‘connective platforms’) are and will continue to offer marketers more flexibility to develop more immersive experiences.

Over the past 18 months, a great debate has consumed our industry: Are digital agencies poised to sit at the head of the advertising table? Depending on whom you ask and what you read, the answer seems to flip flop -- with a majority of people still having reservations and making claims that digital agencies aren't ready to lead.

Brand Marketers have not really thought much of building their brand in the online space, but if they are aiming to stay relevant in the digital age, they have to change their way of thinking.

In 2010, the macro-trend will be a ‘sense of urgency’. For the first time, there’s a global understanding, if not a feeling of urgency that sustainability, design and citizenship in every possible meaning of these words, is the only path toward long-term viability.

Show us one experienced, switched-on consumer in a mature consumer society who does NOT google once a day. Or even once an hour. One consumer who has NOT researched the cheapest available fare, price, charge before buying a big ticket item. Who has NOT invested some time reading reviews, recommendations and suggestions from experts and fellow consumers on anything from hotels in Paris and designer vacuum cleaners to which specific seat to request on flight SQ220 from Sydney to Singapore.