Posts Tagged “scientific advertising”

Why creatives should wear bowties

 
 
Last week Rory Sutherland explained on his blog “Why creatives should wear ties occasionally”.  He talked about the relevance of old tried and tested techniques in modern advertising and used the iPhone single page ad as an example of a “perfectly sensible kind of advertising” that is so rare these days.  He described how the ad “contains [...]



Marketing Accountability in 1923

 
A couple of weeks ago I found a copy of Claude Hopkins’ “Scientific Advertising” as a pdf online.  This book was written in 1923 and it was probably the 1st book ever written on the application of mathematics in marketing.  If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it.  It opens with the following beautiful [...]