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Radio Trinidad…can we learn from Radio Canada?
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Under the Canadian Commercial Radio Policy, 35 per cent of all music aired each week on all AM and FM stations must be Canadian. In...
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T&T 50th Anniversary Logo
“They cheat, they cheat, we want to see the score sheet”
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The headline is taken from a Maestro calypso.  It speaks to the lament of the pan-man every year after the Panorama Competitions.  I was reminded...
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Why do brands die?
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I was reading the "Remembering" section in today's Vancouver Sun and got thinking about my favorite topic; brands.  And about why do brands die?  or...
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Pepper closing but staying in pepper business.
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After close to 7 years on the Trinidad and Tobago marketing scene, pepper advertising is closing its doors and opening its kitchen.  Known for its...
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Urban Heartbeat and ME
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“Urban Heartbeat – An artistic encounter in public spaces” The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Abovegroup Ogilvy and the Goethe-Institut Mexiko present Urban...
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Cutting track for gouti to run…
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"Cutting track for goutie to run" is a local expression that means doing hard work that someone else comes along and benefits from. And often that...
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Kony 2012: What’s the verdict?
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Some years ago I sat in the jury of a moot trial at the Hugh Wooding Law School where the team from Jamaica fought against...
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A Day on the Internet
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These mind-numbing figures represent one day on the internet
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kony 2012
Kony up or Pony up?
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Last October, Pepper Advertising and Arthur Lok Jack GSB co-hosted a Creative Workshop called “The Rules Behind Breaking Creativity Rules”, where we learned out of...
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Building a brand is a relay. Not an individual race.
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In the movie Safe House, Denzel Washington tells his co-star Ryan Reynolds:  ‘When they tell you “You’ve done a fine job, son. We’ll take it...
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T&T Carnival needs a makeover.
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T&T Carnival needs a master plan.  If this were a product marketed by a Company, there would be meetings going on about if the product...
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Brands need to be faithful.
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Faithful to their positioning, I mean.  I got a really classy invitation to the launch of 3zero at Pier One.  With the four people involved...
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