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How to Critique Super Bowl Commercials

Every year, friends and family ask me if I watch Super Bowl commercials differently because I’m in the ad business.

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2024 Super Bowl Ads Winners and Losers

If you read our “How to Critique Super Bowl Commercials” PositionistView article last week, you know we have a fairly critical eye when judging the commercials. Along with a crazy overtime Chiefs’ win, the ads also provided plenty of chatter at our watch party.

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Fifty Years of Positioning: the 1970s

Some things have changed since Dick Maggiore and his stepdad, the late Chuck Innis, founded Innis Maggiore in 1974 at the kitchen table of their home in Canton. But some things haven’t changed one bit.

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55 Years Later: Revisiting Jack Trout’s Original Article on Positioning

If you haven’t read Jack Trout’s original article on positioning, you can read it here. Published in Industrial Marketing in June of 1969, this single article was the foundation upon which Trout and Ries built their principles of positioning.

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It’s a dog-eat-dog world: the rise of challenger brand advertising

There have always been brands like McDonalds, Nike, and Amazon, that dominate the headspace of consumers. Despite massive control of their respective markets, this shield isn’t entirely impenetrable. Challenger brand advertising has historically found gaps in their armor by bringing attention to consumer desires left unsatisfied.

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Fifty Years of Positioning: the 1990s

From fanny packs to Beanie Babies and from the Macarena to untucked flannel shirts, some fads in the 1990s might take a little while to come back into style (if they ever do).

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Don’t Dare Call It “McDonut”!

How sweet is the McDonald’s/Krispy Kreme cross-promotion strategy?

Lots of people like McDonald’s. Lots of people like Krispy Kreme.

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Positioning for Success: The Value of Designing a New Category

Want to dominate a business category? There’s only one sure way to do it: create a NEW category. As we learned from Jack Trout’s, Marketing Warfare, “if you’re not #1 or #2, be something new!” As positionists, we’re always encouraging our clients to stand apart.

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Yo Ho! Pirate Ship weighs anchor with brand distinction in a sea of sameness

Not long ago, I got an email from LinkedIn with a digest of “Top job picks for you. ” I’ve been at Innis Maggiore for over two decades and am not in the market to change that, but the first listing caught my eye.

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Boost sales with branded packaging design that aligns with your position.

If you’re a consumer product manufacturer, you’ve undoubtedly marketed your product through a variety of advertising, media, and PR tactics.

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