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April 30, 2022

Need a drink?

In FADS, we talk about how the alcohol industry has used gender, nostalgia, insecurity and other vulnerabilities to get us drunk – where are we at in 2022?

food waste overflows in the trash
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March 31, 2022

Campaign of Note: Mayo Tackles Food Waste

Addressing food waste, and highlighting sustainability are noble causes, but make no mistake. Hellman’s is not spending millions and millions of dollars to make people feel good.

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February 28, 2022

The Future of Personalization and FADS

The powers that be will always be looking to their marketing departments to help shape our preferences, and they’ll continue to hone in on their targets (us) with more precision.

people drinking mocktails
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January 18, 2022

How’s Your Dry January Going?

Drinking habits, attitudes, and behaviors for each generation are closely monitored by marketers, because they need to craft just the right messages and campaigns to keep their steady customers coming and reach the next generation of drinkers.

woman smelling a product in a store
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December 28, 2021

The Future of Sensory Marketing

Without the ability to physically stimulate our senses with Smell-O-Vision, scent bubbles, or lickable screens, brands that rely on sensory marketing are getting a crash course in some of the ways to reach audiences online with tactics they may not have had to try before.

a hand reaches for a red bell pepper
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November 22, 2021

Special Food: The Great Organic Food Fraud

When I recently read this New Yorker article about a regional sales manager from Missouri, who ended up committing serious fraud in the organic grain industry, I couldn’t help but think of the organic food market over the years.

Stephen Colbert announces BOOZE NEWS
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October 30, 2021

Booze News with The Late Show

As a “fan of both trends and alcohol,” Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert brings us an update he’s calling Booze Newz, to keep us informed about the latest in alcohol advertising.

Bright blue non-alcoholic drink being served in a martini glass
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October 16, 2021

Sober October 2021

Sure looks like this trend continues to grow. And while this trend is predictably being blamed on the Millennials, we should get ready to start blaming Gen Z, because it seems they aren’t as into drinking as their Boomer grandparents or Gen X parents either.

The middle path includes more blended meat and plant protiens.
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January 17, 2019

In the News: The Impossible Burger

Impossible Foods released a more nutritious version of its plant-based burger to address concerns that the original formula was no more healthy than a regular ground beef burger. The new version has less sodium, and saturated fat, and is gluten-free.

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