Purpose Doesn’t Need More Saving Than a Self-important Saint Thomas Kolster is one of the most well-known faces in the advertising for good space – coining the term Goodvertising. He’s a marketing activist on a mission to make business put people and planet...
Every ad break these days is packed tight with commercials touting a higher purpose from decrying plastic dumping in our oceans to promoting diversity. I used to believe in purpose, with all my heart. Good Lord, I even wrote a book about it calIed, “Goodvertising”...
Brands often focus too heavily on making themselves come across as the “hero.” Too often they fall into a “hero trap”. If you asked a psychologist to evaluate most brand purposes, I imagine the diagnosis would be somewhere between megalomania or delusion....
Hosting the recent Open House at JCDecaux in Paris, Thomas Kolster spoke on the need to rethink purpose and profit and the opportunity for goodvertising to play its part in tackling the issues we colossal issues we currently face globally. In this interview he talks...
It was a sad Super Bowl. Sad, as only Trump can say it. Saaad. On the one hand, a fast-talking, cunning clown tried to sell me stuff as ad land usually does best. On the other, I felt emotionally mistreated by a sobbing stranger playing curling with my heart....
