MT Rainey's classic texts: Another turning point for brands? (by Stephen King)

Stephen King's paper, published in Admap in October 1985, was written during a minor advertising downturn but just before what was, in retrospect, a 20-year bull market.

MT Rainey's classic texts: Stephen King's "Another turning point for brands?"

Read Stephen King's article Another turning point for brands?, Admap, October 1985

INTRODUCED BY MT RAINEY

It has been said that advertising has many gurus, professors, geniuses and mavericks, but only one King. As a young planner, trying to practise and pioneer the discipline in the US, I devoured Stephen King's papers and speeches as ballast to my arguments for using advertising to shape and add value to brands, rather than simply to reflect a product proposition.

While much has been made of the contrasting...

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