Brand strategy
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Positioning, distinctive assets, and brand-building thinking.
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The Strategy & Planning Scrapbook
“A curated collection of strategy frameworks, creative provocations, and planning tools — compiled from years of practice in brand strategy and advertising.”
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The AI Search Manifesto: Why Every Company Needs to Become a Publisher or Disappear From the Conversation
“The brands that publish will be found. The brands that do not will be described by someone else, or not described at all.”
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The Age of Curation
The more we have, the less it means.
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The Great Flattening: Corporate AI Language and Brand Voice Opportunity
“Corporate America is converging on a single voice. The brands that opt out will own the next decade.”
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Death is our missing technology
“We cannot make new things when our spaces are cluttered with infinite half-dead brands, platforms, trends, jokes, technologies, ideas and memories that steal endless little fragments of our attention.”
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Entertain or Die 3.0
97% of the world's most entertaining brands posted revenue growth, with over two-thirds having double digit gains.
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The Long and the Short (form) of It
New research reveals how to make entertaining and effective ads for TikTok, based on testing with TikTok users
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The Dead End of Good Taste
“I expect we'll see a shift in emphasis from taste to character, in which the premium is placed on contradiction over cohesion and the specificity of one's interests over generalized cultural fluency.”
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Mario and the New Fandom Flywheel
“Two-thirds of Gen Zs spend more time with fan-created content than with the official titles”
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Zefr and OM Media Trials Release First-of-Its-Kind Study on Brand Impact of Ad Adjacency to AI-Generated Content
“Some AI environments can drive positive brand outcomes, while others introduce real brand risk”
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Y R U Scared of Being Too Niche
“A post challenging the fear of being too niche in your professional positioning”
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The Brand That Thinks
“The gap between these two kinds of brand is about to become unbridgeable. And most of the industry hasn't even noticed it's opening.”
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20 Learnings on Building Community
“I’ve striven to take the vow of guardianship and fellow friend.”
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Events as an anti slop play
“Events and experiences are no longer a nice-to-have in your marketing mix. They’re actually one of the fastest-growing budget lines for B2B brands.”
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Your Brand is Not for Everyone
“Constraint operates not as a restriction but as a shaping force.”
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The Five Pillars of Brand Distinctiveness
“Guarding against undifferentiated slop.”
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Why Does Every Cool Brand Eventually Become Boring?
“They’re not asking “will customers still love this in 10 years?”, they’re asking “can we show enough growth to flip this?”
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The era of post-modern brand longevity
“Has the trend cycle moved so quickly that the heat of a hot brand now collapses almost as fast as it forms?”
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