Your obsession with pandering to 18-34 year-olds is decades out of date

by Bob Hoffman (@adcontrarian), San Francisco Bay One of the enduring absurdities of the marketing and advertising industries is the old wives’ tale that “people over 50 want to be like young people.”

Ask any brain-dead CMO of a car company why the people who inhabit his commercials are all young, when 18-24 year-olds buy 1% of all new cars, and you’ll get some version of that idiocy.

It’s what passes for “strategic thinking” in the Golden Age of Marketing Brilliance.

Yeah, I was having coffee with Jerry Seinfeld, Meryl Streep and Barack Obama the other day and they were telling me how much they aspire to be like the morons in Taco Bell and Coors Light commercials.

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By MarkLives. Ad Talent Africa has released its 2023 salary survey, offering insight on who earns what in adland and marketing in South Africa. This annual survey isn’t intended to be prescriptive but is a report on what this specific recruiter has experienced over the course of the last year. The survey found remote and hybrid …

Directory of independent creative agencies in South Africa 2021

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