by Greg Ippolito | Jan 19, 2021 | IMA Post
2021: Marketing Strikes Back! We’re all watching the clock, waiting for the COVID-19 vaccine to arrive at our doctor’s office or local pharmacy. Once we reach the other side of the pandemic — and start living in the “New New Normal” — how will the world change? And...
by Greg Ippolito | Dec 14, 2020 | IMA Post
Top Ten Vintage TV Spots (2020 Quarantine Edition) Being in quarantine for most of 2020 made us find new and inventive ways to stave off boredom. As lovers of all “media arts” — but commercials in particular — the IMA team started celebrating vintage TV spots in our...
by Greg Ippolito | Nov 25, 2020 | IMA Post
The Power of “New” In the legendary Mad Men episode titled “The Carousel,” Don Draper tells his prospective clients at Kodak the following: “The most important idea in advertising is ‘new.’ It creates an itch. You simply put your product in there as a kind of Calamine...
by Greg Ippolito | Oct 22, 2020 | IMA Post
The One Thing If you or someone you know has been touched by breast cancer, and you want to do something about it, you think of Susan G. Komen. There are many cancer charities one could support. But Komen was the first to focus specifically on breast cancer. With an...
by Greg Ippolito | Sep 24, 2020 | IMA Post
3 Key Ways Marketers Can Use Artificial Intelligence IRL At Red Rocks in 1983, Bono famously said: “There’s been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence … maybe, maybe too much talk.” (All right, I may have paraphrased that a bit.) But there has been way too much...
by Greg Ippolito | Aug 20, 2020 | IMA Post
Lying in the Bed You Made This is a story of how a national mattress brand managed to turn five sales into just one. Several years ago, my wife and I were shopping for a new mattress for our older daughter. She was 12 and had outgrown her “little kid” bed. As it...