In this special edition of The Marketing Lab, I have a quick chat with Associate Professor Josh Newton about his research into how the mere presence of Christmas decorations lead people to soften their evaluations of a personally experienced se...

In our final episode for 2021, our guest is Uppma Virdi, Deakin Alumni, Head Spice Dealer, Founder and CEO of Chai Walli, a female-centric, female owned small Australian business who are passionate about ...

Whether you use it to stay connected or as part of your marketing strategy, social media is integral for communication. But what happens when everything goes horribly wrong, like it did for Justine Sacco when sent her one-hundred-and-seventy tw...

In this episode of The Marketing Lab at Deakin, we talk to Gordon Renouf, Co-Founder & CEO of Good On You, the world-leading source of trusted brand ratings, articles and expertise on ethical and sustain...

In this episode of The Marketing Lab at Deakin we talk to Dr Ali Tamaddoni from Deakin's Marketing Department about how we can use models and machine learning to understand why people change brands and also how religiosity influences online rev...

We often think that marketers simply have to sell stuff to consumers, but marketing also requires an awareness of the context in which the business operates. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission promotes competition and fa...

This week (4 - 11 July) is NAIDOC week in Australia. NAIDOC is a celebration of the history,  culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It’s an opportunity for all Australians, not just the Indigenous commu...

Marketers are often portrayed in an unsophisticated way - that they are evil manipulators that are trying to get us to buy things we don’t want. But there are areas of marketing, like macro marketing and social marketing, where marketers are at...

In this episode of the marketing lab, we talk food marketing and wellbeing with Alice Zaslavsky (Alice in Frames), and Deakin Alumnus, Moreen Kamau (Deliveroo) and Dr Michaela Jackson (RMIT). Food is such a critical part of culture, wellbeing a...

In this episode of The Marketing Lab, we explore the arcane world of universities, university departments, and research. Paul and Gini talk with Professor Andre Bonfrer, Head of Department at Deakin Business School's Department of ...

In this episode we explored the murky world of loyalty, stakeholder relation and engagement. I was joined by Alexandra Crow, the Head of Corporate and Stakeholder Engagement at the Richmond Football Club, Tanya Gallina, the General ...

In our reimagined podcast, The Lab at Deakin, Paul and Gini (Virginia) Weber interrogate the power of language, how butter is made, and whether you really are politically correct or just being some ill-defined misanthrope.The Marketing ...

Living is hard, but in the end are you totally responsible for your wellbeing, or should governments and businesses also care.In this episode of Listen to this, Paul and Gini tackle the conundrums of accidental subjectification in socia...

In this episode of The Lab at Deakin, we take a deep dive into the scientific method. What it is, why it's important, and how we need to embrace it if we are going to progress. On the journey we talk about Star Wars and the Sith, Brett Sutton, ...

From the archivesWhat’s your favourite luxury item—Belgian chocolate, French champagne, one of those plain but very expensive English trench coats?Paul Harrison and Kirsten Drysdale look at the psychology of expensive bran...

How do you manage an airline engine failure, a potential prime minister with a penchant for visiting strip clubs by accident, or a Covid crisis? In this episode of Listen to this, we talk to Deakin University's Adjunct Professor of ...

We're being told that the new "normal" is coming, but I still haven't worked out the old normal. Who is in charge of all these normals... Could the world's populist leaders be suffering from actor-observer asymmetry and which conspiracy theory ...

In this episode of The Lab at Deakin, Paul is joined by Gemma Anderson, Director of Performance and Growth, Deakin University and Dr Gini Weber, Chair of the Psychology and Marketing program in Deakin Business School. Paul and his guests discus...

What is truth in the era of CoVid-19? How can businesses adapt? And what is an agentic male response to ScoMo? Those questions and more will be answered in this episode of Listen to this...

If we think about the product offering a range of benefits, we can see how this might also be communicated through packaging and the service environment. Aesop, for example, has changed the way that companies package and sell beaut...

In this episode of Listen to This we look into how young people can change the course of history, how advertisers should probably choose where to put their money, and the ins and outs of ethical behaviour in marketing.

A special episode of Listen to this... Lehmo interviews Paul Harrison on ABC Radio Melbourne about all things consumer behaviour and marketing. 

In mid-November, Disney Plus, the streaming service from the Mickey Mouse conglomerate will launch in Australia. The service will cost $8.99 a month or $89.00 for the full year. Not bad for access to the Disney back catalogue, the Star Wars fra...

Does your company use the net promoter score? Is it really the silver bullet that marketing research companies tell you it is?And...What happens when your company’s perfect hashtag gets co-opted by the bad guys? In th...

When is a bank not a bank? And how difficult is it to change your bank when you know you really want to break up with it?This week we explore why the Banking Royal Commission has changed the way that banks brand themselves.And…&nb...