The Spring Media Reading List
The best books (many of which are required reading here). Buy one, two or all of them. Your business will be better for it!
Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy
Authored by the father of advertising, Ogilvy outlines his principles for designing a great advertisement (as well as a bad one). Despite being more than 30 years old, these principles still hold today.
Freakonomics
Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
This eye-opening introduction to behavioural economics will challenge you to look at the world through a different lens.
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
One of the best business biographies out there.
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
Rand Fishkin
Good To Great
Jim Collins
A must read for anyone that provides consulting services for clients. Good To Great outlines proven methods for running a great company.
Frenemies
Ken Auletta
An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of Googled
The Power of Empathy
Arthur Ciaramicoli
Arguing that empathy is the driving force behind love, the author shows readers how to bring this all-important trait to the fore in relationships.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say “yes”—and how to apply these understandings. Our favourite book on the fundamental principles of persuasion.
My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising
Gain a lifetime of experience from the inventor of test marketing and coupon sampling — Claude C. Hopkins.
Methods of Persuasion: How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior
Nick Kolenda
Using principles from cognitive psychology, Nick Kolenda developed a unique way to subconsciously influence people’s thoughts. He developed a “mind reading” stage show depicting that phenomenon, and his demonstrations have been seen by over a million people across the globe.