Ambush marketing is dead; long live ambush marketing: A redefinition and typology of an increasingly prevalent phenomenon
Nicholas Burton and Simon Chadwick
Ambush marketing is more than 30 years old, and its prevalence continues to grow. Recent cases indicate that brands perpetrating ambushes are becoming more creative, but the literature has failed to keep pace, offering scant analysis of the different forms ambushing can take, and the implications it can have and little investigation or consideration from the ambusher's perspective.
Burton and ChadwickMANAGEMENT SLANT
- Ambush marketing is evolutionary and dynamic; it encompasses a diverse array of
tactics, strategy, and marketing media.
- Existing definitions of ambushing are inadequate in reflecting the complexity of
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