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 · 17/12/2024Yes the platforms want to maximise usage and care less (or not at all) about building our brands. They also don’t know much about building brands. That’s on us. But it’s on us to get a balance as we have to use them these days. 110
Tom Roach @tomroach.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Lovely stuff. Looking forward to reading. At my kids’ school people who make connections between things like this are called ‘linking lions’…suspect you are one of those. 120
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 · 01/12/2024I’ve made more ads featuring gingerbread houses, than gingerbread houses. 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