Post by Jon Goldstone, Managing Partner, Global. Last year was another tough one for most large consumer-goods companies. They continued to be buffeted by three major disruptions: consumers [...]

Is Gillette’s new ‘brand purpose’ film, We Believe, “The worst marketing move of the whole year,” as Mark Ritson suggests (1), or an inspired bit of [...]

January is the time for bold predictions about how the world of marketing will be revolutionised in the year ahead. But Tom Fishburne’s timely cartoon reminds us of the risks of becoming [...]

“If you can’t beat them, buy them!” is an increasingly common approach for big brand companies responding to the threat of small insurgents. In this post we look at the benefits and challenges of [...]

Its new year resolution time again. And so in this first post of 2019, I thought it was worth re-visiting a classic brandgym blog post by Diego Kerner, our Managing Partner based in Buenos Aries. [...]

Retailer John Lewis has lost its title as undisputed champion of Xmas advertising, according to System 1 research on this year’s ad (1), starring Elton John. The brand only just made the [...]

Microsoft’s market valuation pulled ahead of Apple for the first time since 2010,  confirming how effectively CEO Satya Nadella has revitalised the once ailing company. The share price has [...]

Post by David Nichols, Group Managing Partner and Head of Invention This Black Friday weekend I saw several brands reaping the benefits of ‘fresh consistency’: remembering what made [...]

Direct Line is again a well-deserving winner in the IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards, building on their 2016 success that I posted on here, when I reported on a campaign that built insurance [...]

‘Brand properties’ help build the distinctive memory structure that gets your brand recalled when people are making buying decisions, as we posted on here. And a ‘brand [...]