What can marketers learn from the dark web?

Future Proof 10

Professor Felipe Thomaz explains why understanding digital black markets could be valuable to brands.

If you understand how marketing works, argues Felipe Thomaz, you can assist in dismantling markets that should not exist. That’s why Thomaz, Associate Professor of Marketing at Saïd Business School, lists ‘the dark web’ as one of his specialist subjects. In this episode, he discusses what the dark web is, how black markets can still apply (and indeed strengthen) the principles of marketing, and what marketers might actually learn from some of the activity and developments made in these shadier areas of the internet… 

Hosted by Andrew Stephen, L'Oreal Professor of Marketing at Saïd Business School (Oxford University) and Amy Cashman, co-CEO of Kantar's Insights division in the UK. 

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