Storytelling in a vital world
Julian Saunders The Joined Up Company
The digital arena provides a direct route to consumers and, because responses can be easily measured, marketers can report that waste is being cut. However, Julian Saunders argues that this obsession with ‘direct effects’ loses the persuasive and lasting power of storytelling
CONSIDER THE following heretical questions: What if half the point of communication is ‘the waste'? What happens if in the pursuit of ever-more relevance and measurability we miss something that is less measurable but more important?
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