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This is a video featuring the edited highlights from a roundtable discussion on how well and badly big brands innovate. Convened by BrainJuicer, it features the collective wisdom of both clients and staff. The conversation lasted almost two hours but we were commissioned to record the session and edit it down. Now, much as we tried, we couldn’t get it below c.40mins because of the amount of goodness there.

But the length gave us and Chief Juicer John Kearon pause for thought. How could we make it as accessible and watchable as possible? Well, here are a few tiny innovations that were inspired by that quandary

• John invited illustrator Bob Wagner along to capture seminal moments as cartoons. Not only are these embedded in the video, John’s also created a useful eBook teaser complete with enlightening quotes
• As usual you can find a list of the talking areas here, enabling you to quickly get to the parts that interest you most. This is one of the reasons we use Google video for streaming, because they allow you to go to any part of the video directly without wasteful buffering time
• For those who prefer something slicker, try the chapterised version of the video

 STARRING 

• Alexandra Wren, Global Consumer & Mkt Insights Mgr, Dove Haircare
• Dr. Alex Gordon, Founder, Sign Salad
• Ed Harrison, Senior Consultant, BrainJuicer
• Gaye Myatt, Founder, Fresh Insights
• Iain Carruthers, Author and Founder, Encounter Business
• Jaroslav Cir, Consumer Market Insights director, Rexona
• Jim Rimmer, MD, BrainJuicer UK
• John Kearon, Chief Juicer, BrainJuicer (Host)
• Linda Neville, Strategic Planner, Coca Cola
• Olaf Willoughby, Founder, The Willoughby Partnership
• Orlando Wood, Client Director, BrainJuicer
• Bob Wagner, Illustrator/Designer, Wagner Design (Illustrator)

This is a commissioned podcast which is published according to our yumminess policy

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It’s been pretty difficult not to have noticed the stampede of people joining Facebook.

The ‘it’ social network of today has featured strongly in the blogosphere lately, first because it opened its doors to everyone, and then opened itself to third-party developers.

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…at the quality of creativity and execution in the expanding user-generated audio and video space. Below is an example of just how close ‘amateurs’ are getting to delivering to a professional standard - it’s almost indistinguishable from a music vid on MTV, which I guess is half the point.

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 ESOMAR CONGRESS ‘07  In the first of three preCasts ahead of this year’s Congress event in Berlin, contrarian Mark Earls, a speaker at the event, hosts a roundtable to talk about recent innovation breakthroughs. Joining Mark are four other speakers including David Penn who’s a fan of neuroscience, Unilever’s Jaroslav Cir who’s into ethnography and semiotics, and Phillip De Wulf and Emmanuel Verhagen who believe that mobiles and the mobile internet have the power to completely change the way brands think about research. Powerful stuff

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 STARRING 

• David Penn, MD, Conquest Research
• Emmanuel Verhagen, Leading Fellow, Psilogy
• Jaroslav Cir, Consumer Market Insights director, Rexona
• Mark Earls, Author and Herdmeister, Herd Consulting (Host)
• Philip De Wulf, Leading Fellow, Psilogy

This is an ESOMAR sponsored podcast and is published according to our yumminess policy

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Poke digital agency co-founder Iain Tait pokes fun at traditional advertising thinking by listing ten ways in which digital paradigms reign supreme. Funny presentation where the subtext is really about the divide between spectators who prefer to watch from the sidelines, and do-ers who like to try new things, experiment, fail and try again.

26mins | Via PSFK Conference London ‘07

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Hat tip to Will Goodhand for bringing this to our attention, this is a really good Star Wars parody and a testament to TNS’s Alan Rayner who seems to be the key creative brains behind it. According to Will…

Apparently, at TNS they have a summer party each year and each department is invited to make a short film on a theme……this year the winner was this one. Apparently everyone else’s are really straight down the line ‘this is us and this is what we do’ type things!

BTW, the irony in our headline isn’t lost on us!

A reminder that caveat emptor also applies when consuming media, via Ernie Schenck

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 GREAT BRAND STORIES  Sir James Dyson is one of John Kearon’s heroes. Both are entrepreneurs. And both believe passionately in the power of supreme engineering innovation to deliver progress. So when the opportunity came up to have a chat with Iain Carruthers, brand consultant and now second time author, this time of an authorised biography of Sir James, we jumped at the chance to get the two Dyson aficionados in conversation. Iain’s managed to pull together a fascinating series of insights that should appeal to entrepreneurs and brand marketers alike. Once you’ve heard this, dive into the book: Great Brand Stories: Dyson

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 STARRING 

• Iain Carruthers, Author, Great Brand Stories: Dyson, and Founder, Encounter Business
• John Kearon, Chief Juicer, BrainJuicer

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