Listed in ‘The Top 50 Gurus Who Influenced the Future of Marketing’, Marketing Business, December 2003, pp. 12-16.
Tied for 16th place in the world in terms of comparative author ranking in the domain of advertising research, Journal of Advertising, 37 (3), 2008, p85.
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM), the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture, and Commerce (FRSA), Higher Education Academy (FHEA); and Institute of Directors, UK. Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science; Member of the Academy of Advertising, and Betta Gamma Sigma, USA. Member of the Academia Europaea (honoris causa).
Professor Emeritus from January 2016 at Brock University, Ontario, Canada; and Salford University, Manchester, United Kingdom from April 2020.