With manifestos resembling glossy brochures for competing fantasies, the Left lures in voters with impossible promises. The Right, with its stress on freedom and responsibility, has a tougher sell, says Lee Taylor.
Oatly's CEO has admitted that the company’s 'climate doom' marketing has backfired as sales plummet. It turns out that terrifying people into buying oat milk isn't a sustainable business model, says Lee Taylor.
The ban on Ricky Gervais's billboard saying "Welcome to London, don’t forget your stab vest" shows we are no longer free, says Lee Taylor. It turns out you can be stabbed on your commute but not joke about it.
Black people make up 4% of the UK but appear in over half of adverts, according to a new Channel 4 report. Is the industry finally realising that such fake over-representation is off-putting, asks Lee Taylor.
Sex sells, says Lee Taylor, and that is something many brands, caught up in the joyless theatre of modern virtue-signalling, could well stand to relearn.
Ad guru Rory Sutherland says woke marketers may be wrecking products with preachy promos, but they're just trying to "do the right thing". Not true, says Lee Taylor: they're Leftist authoritarians through and through.
Lee Taylor exposes Google's pivotal role in the censorship industrial complex and urges freedom-loving retailers to fight back by advertising on sites like Spiked, GB News and the Daily Sceptic.
Advertisers have ganged up on new media, pushing a censorship agenda by withholding ad revenue. But now a new platform offers hope. Uncommon Ad Space seeks to connect advertisers with millions of new media users.
Many institutions, both public and private, have succumbed to the fact-phobic ideologies of woke postmodernism. Can they still be salvaged, or must we start over and build anew?
As brands and marketing departments put 'social justice' and over-representing minorities above actually selling products, it appears that 'go woke, go broke' strikes again.
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