Truth sells.

The very definition of a brand is changing profoundly.
It's no longer about putting a face on a company.
It's about holding a mirror up to it.
The truth is, you can't even afford to have a brand anymore.
You have to be one.

The Common Good Convergence

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The world's most successful brands are setting up shop at the intersection of new media and social responsibility.

Slime Balls

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Will the BP Gulf Coast disaster finally convince us that you can’t afford to say you’re one company and be another?

Over Share?

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Turns out, Facebook can see your underpants. Here's what we share in clear graphic detail.

Smoker’s Hack

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Australia is proposing a ban on branded packaging for tobacco products, which may be the first time a government has ever attempted to legislate bad design.

ALL EARS

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A missive from the Mecca of American Consumer-tainment.

Relax, we’re doomed

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NY Times’ David Brooks contrives the term Moral Materialism as a new brand of positive consumerism but misses the bigger, scarier point.

The Numbers Don’t Lie Either

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The results are in. Domino's brutally honest, our-pizza-used-to-suck marketing strategy seems to be working. That's the good news.

Blight or Art?

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Here's an idea: A gallery in LA is replacing unused billboards with artwork. Why not use them to promote organizations seeking to improve the local community?

Article 1: Brand Existentialism

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You can't afford to have a brand anymore. You have to be one.

The Coughin’ Collection

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A nicely done sampler of the sometimes hauntingly beautiful and often ingeniously deceptive ads that got your parents, and their parents, to smoke.