The Contagious Commandments cover art

The Contagious Commandments

Ten Steps to Brand Bravery

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Contagious Commandments

By: Paul Kemp-Robertson, Chris Barth
Narrated by: Paul Kemp-Robertson, Chris Barth
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Penguin presents the audio edition of The Contagious Commandments written and read by Paul Kemp-Robertson and Chris Barth.

Contagion may alarm doctors but marketers thrive on it. Some concepts are so compelling you have to share them. But what makes an idea so infectious you can't keep it to yourself? And how can brands produce these kinds of ideas intentionally rather than by chance?

Contagious, the globally renowned intelligence resource for the marketing industry, is dedicated to identifying and interrogating the world's most exceptional creative trends. And in The Contagious Commandments, Paul Kemp-Robertson and Chris Barth condense this valuable research into ten strategic takeaways for your own marketing revolution.

Taking inspiration from disruptive campaigns from the likes of Patagonia, Nike, Safaricom, BrewDog, LEGO, Kenco, and dozens more, The Contagious Commandments explores how companies fuse creativity, technology and behavioural psychology to achieve truly original marketing ideas that have a positive impact on society and profits - and how your brand can too.

 Advertising Career Success Marketing Marketing & Sales Meetings & Presentations Sales & Selling

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Tell The Truth cover art
The Ways to New cover art
Happy Customers Everywhere cover art
The Science of Growth cover art
Visibility Marketing cover art
Brand Real cover art
Killing Giants cover art
Overpromise and Overdeliver, Revised Edition cover art
Mobilized: An Insider's Guide to the Business and Future of Connected Technology cover art
Bold cover art
Iconic Advantage cover art
Shift Ahead cover art
Socialized! cover art
Artificial Intelligence for Marketing cover art
Bigger Than This: How to Turn Any Venture into an Admired Brand cover art
Brands and Bulls**t. cover art

Critic reviews

Few have had their finger on the pulse of marketing in this brave new landscape quite like Paul Kemp-Robertson and the team at Contagious (Mark Tutssel)

If you work in marketing, or if you're simply fascinated by the effect creative ideas can have, this book is a must-read. Full of the most compelling and disruptive ideas, it offers a practical framework to ignite exceptional ideas

(Stephan Loerke)
Contagious has an encyclopaedic knowledge of what cutting edge creative is. Of the digital world and technologies that are fuelling creativity. He is also one of the best minds and nicest people in our industry. What a treat to have access to all that in this wonderful book (Carter Murray)
A must read for the modern marketer (Fernando Machado)
A brilliant riposte to those who believe that all modern advertising is soulless, mechanical and computerised (Rick Webb)
In this world of ever louder and more irrelevant marketing crap, The Contagious Commandments is a clear, practical and compelling guide to creating brilliant campaigns that really stand out and get people to engage. This is one bug you have to catch (Alain Groenendaal)
Enthusiasm can be infectious. In a world which questions the relevance of advertising, here is the bible for brands built in a more modern age. This fantastic book details the most enthusiastic communications campaigns; ones where consumers, fans and punters jump for joy and share with glee. Don't leave home (for work) without it. (James Kirkham)
Contagious are world-class in their ability to create communications that capture the imagination of your consumers and in this invaluable book, they teach you how (Ian Wilson)
A wonderful journey across the ages, from branded prostitute's sandals in ancient Greece, to instagrammable Ice Cream museums, The Contagious Commandments is romp through the very best ideas that have simultaneously created excitement for punters, and growth for the businesses that backed them - an indispensable read. (Jon Wilkins)
This is the top of the list of any branding book I've read in the past 10 years. It's specific, prescriptive, actionable, and above all, opinionated in all the right ways. Simply love these commandments! (Marc Landsberg)
All stars
Most relevant
But not an issue overall, at the end of the day a very good book read by each reader

The narrator keeps changing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.