Reposted by Tom RoachDuBose @dubose.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Someone deserves a waffle party in IKEA’s marketing department… h/t Australia’s foremost furniture expert @tomroach.bsky.social 031
Tom Roach @tomroach.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Sweet. Thank you BBH for the unexpected smile in the mind. 000
Tom Roach @tomroach.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Every flavour of strategy. Creative strategy has never been more eclectic but more fragmented. This is a call to entries for the APG Creative Strategy Awards 2025. We want to bring together all the best thinking of every kind. Pls spread far and wide. www.apg.org.uk/awards-2025apg.org.ukAPG Creative Strategy Awards 2025Click through for more information about the APG Creative Strategy Awards 2025. 000
Tom Roach @tomroach.bsky.social · 17/12/2024There's a fundamental tension facing marketers today: brands need consistency and repetition, but the platforms tell them they need loads of fresh new content. My latest in @marketingweek.bsky.social on brand building in the age of creative fragmentation. www.marketingweek.com/brand-buildi...marketingweek.comBrand building must adapt to the age of creative fragmentationBrands today have to balance competing needs: more digital content to drive engagement, but also more consistency to drive long-term effectiveness. 371
Tom Roach @tomroach.bsky.social · 11/12/2024‘Big Advertising’ needs to think small. It’s been a big week for Big Advertising. But advertising today is a myriad of smaller things, not just a few big things. First part of a two part case for change. www.marketingweek.com/tom-roach-bi...marketingweek.com‘Big Advertising’ needs to think smallAdvertising today is a myriad of smaller things, not just a few big things, and the ad industry needs to more fully embrace this reality or continue to be disintermediated. 363
Tom Roach @tomroach.bsky.social · 09/12/2024A rare example of a ‘Find your X Find your Y’. You’d get double points on ad twitter c2018/19 if you saw one of these in the wild. 010
Tom Roach @tomroach.bsky.social · 22/11/2024It pleases me that the Bluesky logo is shaped like an X but softer, warmer, less testosterone. 050
Tom Roach @tomroach.bsky.social · 19/11/2024What a strange world we live in, where you can feel a sense of nostalgia for a website, and want to sign up to another website to try and satisfy it. 1100