Volvo, like many other car manufacturers, thoroughly explores the ways of engagement with the brand fans (hopefully, turned-shoppers) in social media. Both hugely popular ‘heavy-weight’ Facebook and a young ‘rising star’ Pinterest came into play for the brand.
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Landor Associates, a global creative community of brand strategists and designers, has released the results of its 2012 Breakaway Brands Study, which demonstrates top ten US brands that have successfully progressed in brand strength over a three-year period from 2008 to 2011. Just like the last year, Facebook was identified as the brand with the leading brand position, which has grown by 206% over three years.
The article written by Kathy Oneto,Vice President, Brand Strategy at Anthem Worldwide, San Francisco
More and more there are examples of past “new and improved” innovations, if you will, that are today being turned on their heads. What once was considered to be an improvement is now being proven to not necessarily be the best.
The article is written by Renée Whitworth, Strategic Partner at Flood Creative, New York
Keep your eyes peeled this summer for the “super” undertones in all types of communication. As multi-tasking becomes a permanent and ubiquitous part of the new life experience, marketers are following suit with products that likewise do more in an effort to help us be more.
Research, being a vital initial part of any brand activities, is becoming more sophisticated in terms of techniques and methods year by year. In the interview to Popsop, a Director at River Research, Zoe Best, who heads up the agency’s Innovation offer, explains which new innovative techniques have come into play recently, shares her vision on what’s a real value of the research for a brand, and how her relatively small independent agency manages to work globally providing a boutique service.
Having done an in-depth research on the nature of luxury and how it has evolved in the current economic environment, Interbrand directors Manfredi Ricca and Rebecca Robins introduce the new term «meta-luxury» with the release of the new book «Meta-luxury: Brands and the Culture of Excellence«, published in the USA in English this month.
The article is written by Douglas Kaufman, Head of Communication at Cocoon Group
Over the course of the past few years, CEE beer brands have had to deal with many dramatic adjustments. We’ve seen changes to product, business, and market behavior across the region. Changing habits or legislation drove some of these changes, while brewers themselves implemented others.