By JinJa Birkenbeuel March 14, 2023 It was spring of 2021, and the world was starting to wake up from COVID-19 lockdowns. I was about to head to my first public-facing entrepreneur workshop as a Google digital coach since I chopped off a foot and a half of 30-plus-years’-worth of chemically straightened processed hair. … Continue reading I’m a Black business owner and this is how my hair shaped my professional brand
Rebuilding A Broken Brand Through Smart Marketing & Advertising by Dave Morgan , Featured Contributor, March 9, 2023 We talk a lot about the power of marketing and advertising to drive growth for brands. It is the table stakes talk at ad conferences, and frequently goes something like this: “Our brand had gotten a bit … Continue reading Rebuilding A Broken Brand Through Smart Marketing & Advertising
Brand Identity Design: Common Mistakes & Solutions Provided Kevin Nguyen / 08 Mar 2023 Many companies continue to undervalue the significance of brand identity design. They concentrate on developing items and marketing them to their target market. Still, they occasionally overlook the fact that poor brand design can seriously jeopardize all of their marketing … Continue reading Brand Identity Design: Common Mistakes & Solutions Provided
TransUnion Rebrands, Explains ‘Tru’ Strategy by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, February 22, 2023 TransUnion has announced the rebrand of its global data-solutions business, combining thousands of business-to-businesses (B2B) product lines into seven. The move follows the acquisitions of Neustar and Sontiq in December 2021. The new name of the product group is Tru. The agency Bluegreen helped … Continue reading TransUnion Rebrands Global Data Solutions, VP Of Global Brand And Marketing Talks About Strategy
By Rob Walker February 10, 2023 Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Lots of brands desperately want to go viral on TikTok. But not the way Kia did. The “Kia Challenge”—involving videos sharing a purportedly straightforward hack that made it fairly easy to steal certain Kia … Continue reading How a TikTok trend vandalized Kia’s brand
Search Beyond Google: The Future Of Brand Discovery by Allie Webb , February 17, 2023 The following was previously published in an earlier edition of Marketing Insider. Search: It’s Google’s world. We’re just living in it. This may have been true in the past, but not anymore. Google is still the dominant traditional search engine, … Continue reading Search Beyond Google: The Future Of Brand Discovery
Will Web3 And The Metaverse Give Rise To Brand Guidelines 3.0? by Jonathan Brown , Preetha Chakrabarti , Suzanne Trivette , February 16, 2023 Emerging technology leads to evolving brand guidelines. With the rise of ecommerce, trademarks were being copied and exploited in ways they had never been before, and guidelines began to emerge for … Continue reading Will Web3 And The Metaverse Give Rise To Brand Guidelines 3.0?
By Rob Walker February 03, 2023 Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. At first, it looked like Marie Kondo had deeply undermined one of the most successful personal-brand stories of the past decade. According to a Washington Post article, the author, Netflix star, business owner, and … Continue reading Marie Kondo is messy now—and it’s actually expanding her brand
By Jeff Beer January 22, 2023 Ever since Pepsi first pitched itself to your parents and grandparents as a youth-focused brand back in 1963—“Come alive! You’re in the Pepsi Generation!”—there has been a steady stream of soda marketing and entire brand launches conceived for the sole purpose of enticing young, cool, (and lucrative) tastebuds. … Continue reading Pepsi’s new Gen Z soda and the futile quest to be the brand of a generation
Roberto Baldwin @strngwys The need to electrify its lineup could have resulted in Mercedes tossing an EV powertrain in its S-Class. Instead, it made the correct decision to create an EV-specific vehicle, the EQS. With nearly all of the trappings of the S-Class, the EQS sets a new standard in luxury for the EV world. … Continue reading Mercedes will reportedly drop the EQ brand to prepare for an all-electric future
