Advertising To The Herd:
How understanding our true nature challenges the ways we think about advertising and market research
Mark Earls Ogilvy London
Introduction
This paper is born out of a feeling that something is not right with the way the word 'consumer' is used nowadays. This word must surely be one of the most frequently used in the lexicon of advertising, marketing and research language. Yet it has not been subject to the huge attention or to the rigour of analysis as has the word 'brand'.
(Valentine & Gordon 2000)
This paper is charged with the...