Sherrilynne Starkie

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Can Ottawa’s NBL franchise recover from a branding disaster?

Sherrilynne Starkie

“We didn’t want to fall into the trap of having a great name and then focus group it to death to the point where you go, ‘Ah, it doesn’t work, let’s go with something safe.’ ”. So says Ken Evraire , the Ottawa branding consultant for Bytown Sports, according to an Ottawa Citizen story last week. It’s a tomahawk dunk.

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Top Five: The night that YouTube went dark

Sherrilynne Starkie

I guess Coke has never heard of the concept of using focus groups to test marketing. Google has launched a new version of its Shopping Insights tool which uncovers products and brands popularity and trends in the U.S. The data reveals a lot about how people search for products and brands. — SS. — SS.

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