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Dulux revives ‘Jelly Bean’ campaign

Dulux is bringing back its Jelly Bean campaign, which was first launched in 1991, by giving away a can of jelly beans with every purchase of an eight-litre tin of paint.

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Household spending up for seventh month in a row says CommBank

The Commonwealth Bank’s Household Spending Insights Index has recorded a monthly 0.3% increase, marking a sixth consecutive month of growth in household spending, following a 0.7% rise in July and 0.5% increases in both May and June.

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‘Hidden buyers’ stalling 40% of B2B deals: latest LinkedIn-Edelman data confirms old school marketing, lead-gen and content playbook now defunct

Four in 10 B2B deals are stalling due to internal misalignment, a new LinkedIn / Edelman report reveals. The data adds weight to a mounting pile of evidence that suggests the old B2B marketing playbook requires a wholesale rewrite. Green Hat, Bain, 6Sense, Adobe, Service Now, Dentsu and a posse of other heavyweights are saying exactly the same thing. The short answer? Invest in brand, so the hidden buyers have at least heard of you. Otherwise, forget it. The long answer is more nuanced. LinkedIn’s Matt Tindale, Flintfox’s Cath Brands and F5’s Jade Meara dive deep.

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Ex-Publicis, Havas, IPG exec turned ‘futurist’ Tom Goodwin skewers AI–agentic commerce hype, but warns ‘robotic’ marketers and agency staff risk automation; Salesforce SVP & CMO, ANZ bites back

Ex-agency exec turned futurist Tom Goodwin thinks the AI hype machine is overblown and that the web is unlikely to become a bot-to-bot commerce engine any time soon. But what can be automated probably will be automated, – and he told ADMA’s global forum that those too focused on measurement, attribution and “average-vertising” over human instinct and craft already risk “training ourselves to be more robotic”. But Goodwin does think AI could yet deliver the promise of one-to-one personalisation, for good or ill, and that “AI for discovery of a recommendation” could be the future of search. Salesforce SVP & CMO, ANZ Leandro Perez disagreed with Goodwin’s take on AI agents – and said retailers are already moving.

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Canva study underscores significance of visuals in brand communication

Canva, in collaboration with Neuro-Insight and The Harris Poll, has released a study titled “The State of Visual Communication 2025,” underscoring the significance of visuals in brand communication, suggesting that high-quality visuals may trigger “20% stronger emotional responses and 74% faster memory encoding than text.”

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