Saatchi & Saatchi Canada launches Venus Embrace Shave School.

Saatchi developed the campaign targeted to young women who are new to shaving their legs and that may need some guidance and education on how…

Saatchi & Saatchi Canada recognized by Applied Arts

Saatchi & Saatchi Canada scores big with four winners in the Applied Arts Magazine Awards in the Interactive category. Category: Business-to-business Title: A Story Of…

Saatchi & Saatchi Canada and The Last Advertising Agency on Earth

There has been the ongoing debate in the industry press about how the agency model is broken and that agencies must move aggressively into digital…

Attributing the “Sell” in Social Media

Defining the value of social media when there are no direct calls to action for a sale is a challenge facing many marketers today. Digital…

Social CRM

Social media has become an inextricable part of the marketing mix and it continues to establish new opportunities to engage people in relevant conversations and…

Should we “Kill ROI” or deliver business results to our clients?

Measurement of marketing effectiveness, I believe, is the most contentious subject we deal with as marketers today. This is a particularly polarizing issue in the…

Creating a LoveMark starts from the inside out

A brand is a story never fully told. That’s how we continue to add dimension and meaning to brands and why well-managed brands endure. So,…

Gaming the right customers – your current customers

We talk a lot about acquisition in our culture. In fact, most of us marketing types make a living off of acquisition – gaining new…

Pepsi and the Super Bowl of Social Media

Are other forms of advertising dead? Has digital media, in particular, social media put the final nail in the broadcast media coffin? Well, Pepsi seems…

Engagement is the new click-through

Remember when click-throughs were a dominant measure in online campaign effectiveness. Well, we’ve got a new debate raging around engagement as a measure of online…

Creating the perfect social networking storm

Social networking has caused many marketers to pause and consider the ongoing debate over paid-media versus earned-media as the most cost-efficient and most effective method…

Unfulfilled promises of digital marketing

In the effort to provide a level-set for this post, lets agree on a realistic rationale for a client to hire any marketer – to…

The “Well-heeled” Bargain Shoppers

There is a shift in the mind-set of companies that are looking to maintain their market position or to grow their businesses. Brand extensions are…

Is Lead Generation The Only B2B Goal?

In a recent survey sponsored by the CMO Council, BtoB Magazine, and USA Today, the vast majority of B2B marketers said digital marketing was most…

LinkedIn Rocks!

LinkedIn is a great tool and service, if you know how to properly use it.  It seems simple to find people from your email accounts,…

It’s The Recognition Economy

Mass markets are eroding with the rise of social networks. In this digital ecosystem micro interactions between consumers and brands are the new way we…

We Seek Belonging Through Social Networking

Recently, I was talking with both my daughters about school, life – you know, the standard father-daughter chats. As we talked, both of my kids…

Who Isn’t a Social Media Guru

Today, with the flurry of activity in Social Media and the explosion of people blogging, tweeting and becoming journalist, producer and publisher – everyone has…

ROI…Not So Much

We have seen the demand for Return-on-Investment (ROI) driven marketing steadily increase over the years. And why not, the arrangement between marketers and the ad…

How Much is a Word Worth?

Stumbled across this site the other day, The Big Word Project which will sell you a word for your cash. Very reminiscent of the Million…

Social Networking – Show me the money

According to a recent article in the NY Times, MySpace – the largest social networking site with over 118 million worldwide users is still waiting…

The Power of Comparative Advertising

Clients both large and small fail to see the value in comparative advertising and they typically default to feeling that this is a cheap tactic…

YouTube ups the ante to Warp Speed

Check out the new YouTube alternative browser called Warp Speed. The regular YouTube navigation has been alerted to display videos in floating bubbles. You move…

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Kevin Krossing is the Managing Director, Digital Marketing, at Saatchi & Saatchi in Toronto, Canada. He has the privilege of leading Saatchi & Saatchi’s talented,…

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