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View articleLaunching genuinely new technology into a category defined by simplicity is one of the harder marketing problems in retail. The product cannot be expl...
View articleThe Christmas window is the most competitive activation period in UK retail. Brands compete for Oxford Street, luxury retailers want spectacle, and ag...
View articleThere is a version of community marketing that exists almost entirely in brand decks: the language of connection, belonging, and purpose that sounds m...
View articlePop-ups have become so common they have almost stopped meaning anything. Every mall has them, every brand has done one, every activation deck includes...
View articleThere is a version of brand storytelling that fills conference sessions and does very little: narrative frameworks, brand purpose pyramids, customer j...
View articleThe rules of retail discoverability are being rewritten. Not gradually, not eventually: the shift is already underway, and the retailers who are still...
View articleThree days at Fira Gran Via last week made one shift impossible to ignore: the moment of discovery has moved off the retailer’s own shelf and in...
View articleMost transformation stories arrive pre-edited. By the time a CEO takes a stage to describe a successful turnaround, the difficult decisions have been ...
View articleThere are brands that lose their way gradually, through a series of small decisions that each seem reasonable at the time, until the cumulative effect...
View articleThere is a version of the Arc’teryx story that is easy to tell and mostly wrong. The version where a technical outdoor brand got lucky with cele...
View articlePentland Brands Stopped Photo Shoots. AI Made It Possible. There is a gap between what brands know AI can do and what they have actually committed to....
View articlePlatform businesses do not happen by accident. They happen when a company decides, at a point of genuine choice, to stop competing on what it sells an...
View articleThe hardest thing in prestige beauty is not building a brand. It is keeping one relevant when the moment consumers are looking for you lasts about as ...
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