Ok it’s cheesy but what can you do, we’re the Lovemarks Company so Valentine’s Day needs a splash. AdAge have published their first Relationship Issue, exploring relationships of all kinds – marketer/consumer, agency/marketer, manufacturer/retailers – as well as looking at different tools and methods for building deeper consumer connections. They were kind enough to ask me to write an op-ed on Lovemarks – why the thinking has survived (and in my book, thrived), and what’s ahead. You can check out the past, present, and future of Lovemarks here. Here’s a chart I use in the article to show the shifts that have occurred as we move from New (which is over) to Now (Now!)