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Advertising in China: Don’t Just Talk At Me, Talk With Me

“Don’t just talk at me, talk with me”. It is one of the 8 new rules for success in China’s changing branding environment summarized by marketing firms Landor Associates and Cohn & Wolfe, as outcome of the conference of Fifth China Branding Roundtable by the Economist Conferences. They interviewed many speakers and experts on the conference, and made videos for each rule.

Here is the video on rule “Don’t just talk at me, talk with me”.

And video on rule about online crisis communication.

You can also find all the videos on 8 rules on Youku (with Chinese subtitles) or on Youtube (without Chinese subtitles).

By Itamar Medeiros

Originally from Brazil, Itamar Medeiros currently lives in Germany, where he works as VP of Design Strategy at SAP, where he leads the design vision for the entire Human Capital Management product line, ensuring cohesive product narratives and establishing best practices.

Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar has helped truly global companies in multiple continents create great user experience through advocating Design and Innovation principles. Itamar has also served as a juror for prestigious design competitions and lectured on design topics at universities worldwide.

During his 7 years in China, he promoted the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk and Local Coordinator of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Shanghai.

Itamar holds a MA in Design Practice from Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), for which he received a Distinction Award for his thesis Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments.

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