Category Archives: Branding

Cruising for Your Health

All of our conversations about Primitive Simplicity essentially come back to a single sentiment: the growing suspicion that our fancy-pants societal progress generates its fair share of unintended, negative consequences. As such, more consumers are starting to believe that the … Continue reading

Patronage That’s Focused on the Details

Once marketers buy into Brand Patronage, there’s an understandable temptation to go after the biggest stars on the biggest stages. From a PR perspective, you’re pretty much guaranteed a big splash if you grab yourself a Lady Gaga or Black … Continue reading

The Super Bowl’s Super Tweeters

I know, I know – many of our readers are still smarting, since their beloved Bears aren’t playing this weekend. Well, it probably won’t help to know that our neighbors to the North are already winning another battle: the ever-important … Continue reading

War on Whiners Gets Real

Over the past half-year, you’ve probably seen the buzzed-about “Crunch Is Calling” campaign from Wheat Thins, in which they pounce upon unsuspecting Twitter users who’ve shared their love of the brand. The best-known spot is presumably the one where a … Continue reading

Love the PLAYR, Love the Game

Well, this kind of blows my old Super Nintendo soccer game out of the water. Check out the trailer above for I AM PLAYR, a game that’s currently in development, but slated for a beta release this year. There’s a … Continue reading

2011 Looks Beautiful So Far

Welcome back, friends of The Awesome Blog! Hope you’re as rested and refreshed as we are, because we’ve got a big year ahead of us. But, since you’re probably easing yourself back into the swing of things, we’ll go light … Continue reading

Best of 2010 on The Awesome Blog – Part 3

Well, this is it for us in 2010. To tide you over until January, we’ve been taking a look back at the best of the blog in 2010. (In case you missed ‘em, here are parts one and two.) And … Continue reading

Best of 2010 on The Awesome Blog – Part 1

Well, we’ve reached the end of another year of marketing madness, and The Awesome Blog has been there to guide you along the way. As you begin to take stock of 2010 and think about where you want to head … Continue reading

How Does Your Brand See the World?

When we’ve talked about telling the “story” of your brand, we’ve often found that online video provides a compelling medium for doing so, even if the topic isn’t inherently sexy. Case in point: consider the juxtaposition of these two videos … Continue reading

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

You know that we’re generally pretty positive here on the Awesome Blog, but every once in a while, we’ve got some criticisms that we need to get off our chest. All’s fair in love and marketing, after all. But these … Continue reading