Insights

A little bit of marketing advice. A little bit of trend surfing. A little bit of opinion. A little bit of ranting and raving. A little bit of, well… everything from our creative — and insightful — noggins.
Tracy Marlowe
December 3, 2010

I find it interesting that Walmart has finally begun to attempt (through much marketing and PR expense) to elevate their brand beyond their platform of being the king of low prices. Yes, everyone has always known that Walmart had (or at least claimed to have) the lowest prices in town. [...]

Tracy Marlowe
November 30, 2010

We were very excited this fall to launch the new brand for our client, the Nix Health Care System. It’s very rare that we get the chance to do a total brand makeover for a client, from head to toe. But this was one of those very rare opportunities. John [...]

Tracy Marlowe
November 19, 2010

OK , so I promise this is not a blog-writing cop-out. I just simply happened upon this article today and was jumping up in my cushioned ergonomic chair saying “YES! YES!” My whole life people have always been telling me “You’re so creative.” But it’s also a compliment I subconsciously [...]

Tracy Marlowe
November 10, 2010

A client sent me this funny video, which was a nice way to start the day. But more than that, it made me think about the current state of TV advertising. Clients have asked me many times recently, “Is traditional media dying? Will social media and the internet cause a [...]

Tracy Marlowe
November 5, 2010

Thirty-eight percent of American mobile phone users — 120 million people — access the web via their mobile device; fewer than 30 million are iPhones or Android phones. (Mobile Access 2010 Pew Internet and American Life Project) and according to a research report by Morgan Stanley, mobile web usage will [...]

Tracy Marlowe
October 22, 2010

Facebook came under fire this week for violating privacy policies where they were revealing your name, the names of your Facebook friends, and potentially tracking the websites you visit online to some advertisers. We’ve all seen the ads on Facebook; mine are all about healthy eating, baby products and sometimes [...]

Tracy Marlowe
October 18, 2010

I read an interesting article from Mark Evans pondering what Twitter is actually worth. Considering that Twitter has yet failed to make any money, it’s an intriguing question and I’ll be eager to see the outcome. Some have pondered that the company could be worth a billion + based upon [...]

Tracy Marlowe
October 14, 2010

Hindsight is 20/20, right? Seems more than once in the past few years, I have found myself grumbling that I wish I had just become a writer instead of an art director. “They have it SOOO easy” I’d say to myself, as I dig through color chip books and paper [...]

Tracy Marlowe
October 12, 2010

Last week, Gap unveiled their new logo after ditching their iconic blue box logo that represented their brand for over 20 years. Of course, as you’ve heard by now, this logo change came with much criticism from consumers, brand enthusiasts, advertisers, creative’s, you name it… someone had something to say [...]

Tracy Marlowe
October 7, 2010

And the war is on! After years of losing incremental search market share to the ever predominant Google , Yahoo is looking to regain some ground. While Google has won internet searchers with its clean and simplified interface, Yahoo has reinvented their search results hoping to differentiate themselves from Google. [...]