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Unhealthy foods are the most heavily marketed products in school. Why do we allow it?
The choice of Adam Goodes as David Jones ambassador is on the pulse, but the concept of a “Face of” is outdated.
UK universities should take note from US colleges and cultivate more of a university spirit.
The ‘In’ campaign has started on the back foot. Here’s what it needs to do to get going.
Given the heightened risk of harm, governments should ban the sale of energy drinks to anyone under the age of 18 years old.
Can VW rebuild public trust? Its survival may depend on repairing the image damage caused by deception over clean diesels.
The short and long-term impact of hosting the Rugby World Cup for the whole of the UK.
The next film in the Star Wars franchise, The Force Awakens, comes out in December. But promotion has already started with all manner of tie-in products up for sale.
It was a humid, sticky 32°C when I made a quick trip to the grocery store in shorts and a tank top earlier this week. Despite the heat, however, the store clearly wanted me to think it was the fall season…
By bidding the price of unhealthy food down, fast food marketers are normalising everyday consumption.
In its home territory of the UK, a mention of the word “Aga” immediately conjures up an image of middle-class, middle England, where the Aga cooking stove is the aspirational kitchen feature. No country…
Ashley Madison uses an age-old marketing technique of tapping into people’s desires.
Do you like your coffee to have artistic flair? Recent research shows we’re likely to pay more for a coffee with latte art than a mere ‘flat’ white.
Studies show sexualized advertising often isn’t effective, and may even have adverse consequences for the product being promoted.
Offensive marketing is a strategy of making ads that shock and awe people in a good way. But sometimes they end up being just plain offensive.
When it comes to advertising luxury brands, marketers tend to see the world as one homogenous lump. It’s time they wised up.
Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard has topped the list of most marketable athletes.
One of the biggest ironies in the history of bottled water is the role that the soft drinks industry has had in its growth.
Does anyone really know the proper price of anything in supermarkets anymore?
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University
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Louise Grimmer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Marketing, University of Southampton
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Professor, University of Galway
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Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
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Cartier Chaired Professor of Behavioural Sciences, Full Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship, ESCP Business School
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Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Marketing, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Executive Director of Postgraduate Programmes, Surrey Business School, Royal Holloway University of London
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Omar H. Fares is a Friend of The Conversation.
Lecturer in the Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
