April 30, 2024 Why Walmart launched a premium grocery label, with fancy branding to match The packaging for Walmart’s Bettergoods line looks like something you might find in Target. That’s intentional. BY Hunter Schwarz Walmart’s new private label brand, Bettergoods, doesn’t look like what you might expect a Walmart private-label brand to look like. And that’s … Continue reading Why Walmart launched a premium grocery label, with fancy branding to match
April 22, 2024 Why solid-state battery startups need better branding EV battery companies haven’t had to worry about building a brand as EV makers have picked up the communications slack. That needs to change. BY Matt Owens For several years, investors (and futurists) have been waiting impatiently for the arrival of solid-state EV batteries. They … Continue reading Why solid-state battery startups need better branding
Deloitte Digital’s Secret GAI Branding Tool – Here’s How I Tested It by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, March 22, 2024 Deloitte Digital will unveil next week something most companies have been hesitant to share: a live example of how it uses generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to brand and market its company. The company created … Continue reading Deloitte’s Secret GAI Branding Tool – Here’s How I Tested It
March 14, 2024 Target’s new budget brand deserves better branding Target has a reputation for making affordably priced products look expensive. So why does its latest brand look so cheap? BY Elizabeth Segran A key to Target’s success has been to make affordably priced products feel expensive. The retailer, which generated $107.4 billion in revenue last year, … Continue reading Target’s new budget brand deserves better branding
By Hunter Schwarz November 10, 2023 NASA’s “worm” and “meatball” logos have divided the agency in the past, but increasingly, they’re appearing together. As it embarks on its Artemis era, NASA’s been using two logos at once. Technically, the meatball logo is the official logo, or the “NASA Insignia,” as it’s named in the … Continue reading NASA is breaking a cardinal rule of branding
Podcasts Drive Sales And Branding: Study by Ray Schultz , August 23, 2023 An impressive 48% of listeners have purchased at least one product advertised in a podcast in the past year. And 76% can recall at least one advertised product, according to The Power of Podcasts, a study from Voices, conducted by Momentive. In … Continue reading Podcasts Drive Sales And Branding: Study
Lemonade’s First Branding Campaign Comes With AI Data by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 10, 2023 Insurance company Lemonade released its first brand campaign in the United States on Monday supported by technology, specifically artificial intelligence (AI). The six-year-old company, which began as a tech startup, built its services on AI technology, which allows customers to … Continue reading Lemonade’s First Branding Campaign Comes With AI Data
By David Salazar We encounter GMOs every day, and methods of selective plant breeding have been used for thousands of years. This kind of scientific engineering can help adapt crops to the changing climate and our growing population. GMOs, however, are still associated with agri-giants, which use them to enable pesticide use—with myriad environmental … Continue reading When done well, GMOs hold big promise—so why does their branding suck?
Selling Ugly: Branding With a Hint of Irony by Steve Smith , Staff Writer @popeyesm, May 12, 2023 Since the era of fruit carts selling oranges on Main Street, marketers have known that beauty, freshness, uniformity, delectability are what sell the goods. There is a new category of sustainable food and store brands like Misfit Market … Continue reading Selling Ugly: Branding With a Hint of Irony
By Shalene Gupta January 24, 2023 In 2016, Meena Harris started designing statement T-shirts that quite literally made a statement. Her most famous one read “Phenomenal Woman,” quoting a Maya Angelou poem. Harris, who is also the niece of Kamala Harris, saw the T-shirt as political tool—not to promote her aunt, but to celebrate … Continue reading Phenomenal woman Meena Harris makes the leap from t-shirt branding to book publishing
