Dennis Ramdeen

Humour Me
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Brand advertising, with a few exceptions, has often been reluctant to play the humour card.Too risky.Too unserious.Too easy to get wrong. Ironically, in the age...
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Stop Worshipping the Logo. Start Building Memory.
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When I started in advertising over four decades ago, logos and taglines were sacred.  You didn’t “place” a logo. You installed it.With rules.With precision.Like it...
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Where is the love?
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Where is the love? (Where is the love?)Where is the love? (Where is the love?)Where is the love? (Where is our love?)Where is the love?...
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Influencers: where PR meets the group chat.
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Half of your Influencer budget is wasted.(You just don’t know which half) Confession: I wasn't always a fan of influencers. But I have come around,...
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On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
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“Someone found a letter you wrote me on the radio, and they told the world just how you felt” “Cause they said it really loud,...
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A Ward of Caution
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Country brands do it.FMCG brands do it.Banks do it.Ad Agencies do it.Plenty sectors do it.All over the world. Brands give themselves awards.They pay to receive...
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Two Decades Later: The Briefs Got Shorter, In more ways than one
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On Monday, 18 August 2025, Pepper turns 20. That’s two decades of ideas, deadlines, and the occasional rum. Along the way, we’ve learned how to...
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The Emperor’s New Clothes
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We are in the middle of a revolution.Some say it’s bad for humans.That it will make us slaves to the machine.That we should be in...
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Speedboats don’t slack
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Same sea, different craftsOne’s a cruise ship.One’s a speedboat.Ad agencies?We’ve got layers.SOPs, Slack, ClickUp.Six people touch one job.Production meetings.AI meetings.Staff meetings.Online games day.The market won't...
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Foil Me Once
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"I don't know what it is, but it's shiny, so it must be good" -18 year old (f) at Starbucks this was said off the...
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2025
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2025hope you're tiny bit better than 2024ok i liedwe need you to be a lot betterthink of it as going from mother-in-law love to mother's...
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What do butterflies like?
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Don't be like the six year old boy chasing butterflies with your net, saying buy me, buy me, buy me via social media, press, radio,...
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