Author Archives: Patrick McGovern

Patrick McGovern

About Patrick McGovern

With more than two decades of experience in the ad game, Patrick is Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Blade Creative Branding Inc. He holds responsibility for several of the agency's key accounts, including those in the high technology and pharmaceutical sectors, and takes a lead role in Blade's new media and digital marketing initiatives.

What’s The Purpose Of Integrated Marketing? That’s Simple: Integrity.


(Belvedere) RED Pre-Grammys Party With Mary J Blige

Integrated is a hot word in marketing these days. Lots of people want to say they practice integrated marketing. But when you engage them on the topic it seems they’re talking about different things. Is it combining social media with search engine marketing? Coordinating online and offline activities? Or is …

Read More

Posted in Integrated Marketing Tagged

A Refreshing View of the Ad Game: The Avengers Model


Advertising was the talk of the town last week in Toronto. In numerous venues, the “thought leaders” of the local ad industry (not to mention a bevy of their thought followers) gathered to celebrate Advertising Week 2012. Being a proud participant in the industry myself, I was glad to be …

Read More

Posted in Integrated Marketing

The Crowd On the Cloud is Us.


It’s a downpour! As an advertising exec, I am on the comp lists of numerous business magazines and IT publications. In the last few months almost every one that lands on my desk has featured a cover story on “Cloud Computing.” It’s a virtual deluge, you might say (if you …

Read More

Posted in Branding

Brand Community Marketing Works in Politics, Too!


Green Party buttons

When does fewer overall votes count as a major leap forward in politics? When you’re the Green Party of Canada, and you just made history by installing your party leader as the first-ever elected Green member of the Canadian House of Commons. At the start of the 2011 Federal election, …

Read More

Posted in Branding