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Zusatztext "Every planner needs this book - and the brave ones will give it to their clients! too." (Admap! November 2007)"A valuable reference book for today's practitioners! as well as a unique source of sophisticated! contemporary thinking." (Retail & Leisure International! December 2007)"...a good book to keep beside your desk...it will help to clear the mind as an ongoing mental workout." (Market Leader! Winter 2007) Informationen zum Autor Stephen King was a genuinely original thinker. He began his career in JWT (J. Walter Thompson) in London in 1959, retired from the agency in 1988 and spent the next 4 yeas at WPP. In addition, he spent 7 years as a director of the Henley Centre and was a Visiting Professor of Marketing at the Cranfield School of Management. During his career, he pioneered an entirely new organizational structure to support his ideas and philosophy - the importance of function called account planning and role of the account planner in creating advertising. It was a structure that was copied by agencies around the world. Stephen died in February 2006, leaving a legacy of articles and books about marketing, advertising, research and brand communications written over a thirty year period, which have influenced advertising people around the world. He is remembered as a leading intellectual figure in the world of communications strategy. Judie Lannon isa Marketing Communications and Research Consultant. The major part of her career was with JWT London where she was Research and Planning Director for JWT Europe before leaving to set up her own consultancy. In addition to working with clients on branding projects, she is editor of Market Leader, the journal of the Marketing Society and on editorial board of the International Journal of Advertising Merry Baskin , after several years as one of the industry's top planning directors (including running the UK's largest planning department at JWT and America's coolest at Chiat/Day New York), founded her own strategic planning consultancy, Baskin Shark (where brands move forward or die!) in 2000. She also works with the APG and American Association of Advertising Agencies providing training for the advertising and marketing industry, and account planers in particular. She remains one of the leading lights behind the renaissance and expansion of the Account Planning Group (APG) both in the UK and overseas (UK Chairman 1998-2000). Klappentext 'What is a Brand?' by Stephen King was one of the most influential pieces of work ever and has had a lasting influence on the way in which I think about brands. A few years ago I had the extraordinary experience of re-visiting the video of it made by Stephen and Jeremy Bullmore and the stunning thing was how prescient they had been some thirty years previously. Indeed, the only thing they had not foreseen was the internet - everything else they got right.--Hamish Pringle, Director General, IPAMartin Mayer, the well-known investigative journalist, has described the present-day American advertising business more accurately than any other writer. He did this in his book Whatever Happened to Madison Avenue? Advertising in the '90s. I quote from page 191: "Thompson in London had become what Ogilvy was the first to call 'a teaching hospital,' where the researcher Stephen King developed philosophies of branding that were carried to America by John Philip Jones and Timothy Joyce."There is very little doubt today that branding is at the top of most marketing professionals' minds in the United States. But "top of mind" is not quite the same as "in the bloodstream." Packaged goods advertisers in the United States are currently forced to spend three timesas much money below the line on price cutting, as above the line on brand-building media advertising. It is to be hoped that the book of Stephen's papers will inject a powerful serum into the bloodstrea...
