Budweiser Positioning puts sales over sentiment for this year's Super Bowl® advertising  Budweiser didn't exactly throw the puppies under the bus, but those pooches are definitely no longer on the payroll in…

There is a story behind the story in the Brian Williams false-reporting scandal. Crisis PR has played a role.

This year, give the gift of branding. "Look, Santa baby! You're never gonna make it without a new image," was how his weary Tinseltown agent put it.

It Sure is Deep in Here: Chevy is "retooling" and "reinvigorating" so that you'll be "resonating" Apparently, brand positioning and resulting sales no longer matter in the automotive business.

Mother Goose Knows This Stuff is No Mere Fairy Tale Every spring over the last few years, Innis Maggiore has witnessed a wonder of nature that's also a real life application…

Can words have a position? And, if so, can their positioning change over time? That is, can repositioning be achieved? At Innis Maggiore, we know that the most powerful concept in marketing is to own a word. Take a word such as "prestige," as owned by Mercedes-Benz, or "overnight" and "safety," by FedEx and Volvo, respectively. Each word carries meaning, and the positioning (the twin to repositioning) supplied by that word creates meaning for the brand...

KFC -- or is it KGC? -- seems to be having a personality crisis (with all apologies to the 70s rock band New York Dolls), which means it has a positioning strategy crisis...

Can music benefit from positioning marketing? Though an art form, it is also a product, so in that context the answer is a definite yes. As the nation's leading agency in the practice of positioning that's also located in Northeast Ohio, Innis Maggiore can't help but appreciate the recent positioning marketing efforts of Akron's own DEVO...

You Can Lead a Chevy to the Levee, but Can You Make it Drink Kool-Aid? Brand identity is a very delicate thing.

I worked for BP 11 years, as copywriter and creative director at its agency prior to the Amoco merger.