Our today’s interviewee is Hugh Robertson, Founding Partner and CEO of the London-based marketing agency RPM , Board Director at the MAA, successful businessmen, and simply a very bright and optimistic person. Hugh told Popsop about what a young person needed to start a business, how the role of ATL vs BTL marketing had changed over years, and what had kept him busy and inspired through his entire 19-year career in marketing.
Year: 2012
Aesop, the brand storytelling agency, has chalked up a first for HEINEKEN’s No Nonsense bitter John Smith’s with a one-off TV execution to support the brand’s long-running sponsorship of the Grand National. The ad will be available to view for the first time this week, ahead of the world famous race meeting at Aintree, which takes place from April 12-14.
New ideas are often sourced from previous approaches. Miller Lite has returned to the old ‘It’s Miller Time’ tagline (now it has a new meaning) to encourage Americans to spend more time with their friends—not only for a beer. While in the previous campaigns under this slogan, which was used by Miller High Life in 1970’s and then returned for Miller Lite from 1997 to 2002, beer was positioned as a reward after hard work, now the focus got shifted to sociability. The new U.S. campaign, which is set to roll across multiple platforms including TV, social media and print, is to help the Miller Lite beer, which is the fourth biggest-selling beer brands in the USA, revive since its overall shipments dropped by 4.3 percent last year, CNBC reports.
The article is written by Darren Foley, Managing Director at Pearlfisher, London
We often talk about great brands as icons. Well-respected and loved, they enter into our culture and consciousness to form reference points that shape our existence. Over time, brands with a specific provenance can become national treasures, symbols that represent our world.