For brands that want to appeal to customers migrating to the Next Frontier, you can either follow them there… or you can greet them when they arrive. Retailer Tractor Supply Company seems poised to do the latter. A drive across America’s Heartland will...
Early this year, fast-food chain Subway was hit with a lawsuit alleging that their tuna sandwiches contained no tuna – and, well, no fish at all. While the company was ultimately exonerated, their response provides a lesson in how not to...
The stakes in Real Estate have never been higher. And that’s creating a feverish competition of creative one-upmanship among some key players… including RE/MAX, Rocket Mortgage, and now Zillow. In the old days, the ad wars were reserved for the...
Earlier this year we were highly critical of ADT’s Super Bowl ads, which featured HGTV personalities Adam and Drew Scott (aka “The Property Brothers”). Perhaps we should have held our criticism in abeyance while they rolled out the rest of the...
Our old friends Sears are in the news again. Having, against all odds, staved off bankruptcy, the venerable challenger home improvement retailer is trying to build a new brand image and distance itself from its troubled past. And what do you do when you want to...
What was wrong with Elizabeth Banks? It’s a question we find ourselves asking Realtor.com (not that they’d answer) after seeing their new “Unreal” series of ads. If you don’t remember, Realtor.com retained the services of actress...
