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Don MacLeod

22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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Brands

The Parking Lot Test: What Detroit’s Auto Industry Knew About Brand Commitment

Posted on April 14, 2026April 14, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Growing up in Detroit’s western suburbs meant you learned the rules before anyone explained them. The Big Three—Ford, GM, Chrysler—weren’t just employers. They were ecosystems with their own gravitational pull and unwritten codes. If you worked at an agency servicing one of them, you didn’t show up in a competitor’s…

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Media

Two Weekends Without ESPN and I’m Done – How YouTube TV Lost My Household

Posted on November 10, 2025November 9, 2025 By Don MacLeod

The Great Saturday Letdown It started quietly. The kind of quiet that hits you when you flip on the TV Saturday morning expecting the College Gameday Crew, and the marching chaos of college football—and instead, you get an nothing. Channels wiped off off the platform like they never existed. At…

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USAA Missed the Easiest Win in Marketing — Standing by Their Own Members

Posted on October 18, 2025October 12, 2025 By Don MacLeod

I’ve been a USAA customer for years — checking, auto, insurance, the works. And like most of their members, I joined because USAA wasn’t just a bank. It was our bank thanks to my father’s service in the United States Air Force.  This is built for people who serve, for…

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