Cavemen Prove Focus Groups Kill Great Ideas

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These two videos from DraftFCB Hamburg examine the idiocy of focus groups and why it’s silly to rely too heavily on them. In the videos, one caveman moderator and three caveman panelists turn great ideas like fire and the wheel into useless inventions no one would ever need. It’s humorous enough and hits home perfectly the notion a bunch of random people will, undoubtedly, kill a good idea every time.

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