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    Marketing isn’t just adopting AI. It’s being rebuilt around it.

    Marketing isn’t just adopting AI. It’s being rebuilt around it.

    The role of marketing is becoming less about managing campaigns and more about designing systems — systems that combine human judgement with AI, adapt continuously – and connect strategy, creative, media and measurement.

    July 23, 2026
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    Maybe We’ve Misunderstood Agentic Commerce

    Maybe We’ve Misunderstood Agentic Commerce

    Recent research from Gartner suggests consumers don’t want AI to make autonomous purchases - they want AI to help them make informed and frictionless purchasing decisions.

    July 22, 2026
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    Marketers Aren’t Choosing AI Models. They’re Choosing Systems.

    Marketers Aren’t Choosing AI Models. They’re Choosing Systems.

    The organisations that create the greatest value from AI won’t necessarily be those with access to the most advanced model. They’ll be the ones that redesign how marketing works.

    July 21, 2026
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    Marketing as a System: Five Strategic Shifts for the AI Era

    Marketing as a System: Five Strategic Shifts for the AI Era

    Marketing communications strategy has always evolved alongside changes in consumer behavior, innovations in technology and evolutions in media. Hera are five shifts I believe marketing communications strategists should be thinking about.

    July 20, 2026
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    The Strategic Intelligence Gap

    The Strategic Intelligence Gap

    A recent article by David Armano on The Intelligence Wealth Gap got me thinking – David’s work is nothing if not thought-provoking! – and gave language to something I’ve been cogitating … and experiencing in the workplace.   The thought that he framed so eloquently is that AI is creating…

    July 17, 2026
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    OpenAI’s first hardware device leaks …

    OpenAI’s first hardware device leaks …

    OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly not a phone, glasses, or a laptop. It is shaping up as a portable, screenless ChatGPT speaker with cameras, sensors, GPT-Live voice, and movement. According to reports, the device is meant to feel like a physical ChatGPT: rechargeable, movable around the home, able to…

    July 16, 2026
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    Beer Turnstile lets partygoers travel home free on Metro

    Beer Turnstile lets partygoers travel home free on Metro

    Carnival in Rio is exuberant and outrageous. With two million people attending each day, Rio becomes a place where anything goes and alcohol flows. Drink-driving incidents increase by 50% during the period. To live up to their ‘Don’t Drink and Drive’ effort, Antarctica Beer decided to help carnivalgoers get home…

    August 14, 2013
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    2013 Trends – Consumer :: Media :: Technology

    2013 Trends – Consumer :: Media :: Technology

    2013 Trends :: Consumer : Media : Technology from Savannah Strategies

    March 11, 2013
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    The Future of Communications

    The Future of Communications

    This is a presentation I gave in Mombasa, Kenya, as part of the Marketing 2030 Festival

    January 7, 2013
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    Hyperconnectivity

    Hyperconnectivity

    Nice work from Jeremy Abbett Hyper-connectivity from Jeremy Abbett

    September 25, 2012
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