The craft and micro beer phenomenon has been going strong for a while, and whilst it has revolutionized the look and feel of the overall beer market, the world’s iconic and giant beer brands have probably not felt overtly threatened.
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The article is written by Sherwood MacVeigh, Director, Senior Brand Strategist Hyperquake
My relationship with my eye cream is over.
I loved my eye cream; I used it faithfully for years, every morning and night. But those days are history; I am breaking up with my brand. To paraphrase a country superstar’s current hit song, my brand and I “are never, ever getting back together.” Why? This brand just isn’t working for me anymore. I’ve changed; it hasn’t.
From persuasion to platform, from positioning to purpose, from consistency to experimentation, from control to liberation and from ownership to ‘boundarylessness’ — these are the crucial shifts in branding theory spotted over the 20-year career by Robert Jones, head of new thinking at a brand and innovation firm Wolff Olins and visiting professor at UEA, published in the current issue of the Journal of Brand Management.
The article is written by Simon Wright, Managing Director of Greenwich Design, London
Design in the B2B sector is greatly overshadowed by the high-impact, big budget campaigns of its B2C counterpart, and over the years has gained a reputation for lacking the creativity and quality that the consumer marketing world has in spades. But is this really the case?
Article by Sylvie Saunders, Head of Words Pearlfisher
From energy brands to home furnishings, the pros and cons of renaming is something of a hot topic in the brand industry. With a recent influx of self-explanatory, simple naming, we could start seeing a backlash if brand stretch isn’t considered and built into the name from the start. A great name needs to have the courage of its convictions and if brands aren’t buying into their own monikers, what hope for consumer buy in?