Never before has there been such confusion between marketing people and agencies about the kind of ideas we’re all looking for. In the past, things used to be quite simple – marketing people wanted short, product-focused ads with big logos on them and agency people wanted long, conceptual ads, with small logos on; agency people wanted beautiful double-page colour spreads with small logos on them and marketing people wanted small-space black-and-white ads with big coupons on them. The battle lines were clear and debate was entered from there, usually finding a happy ending on the middle ground in between. (more…)