This year our 16th annual brandgym research project looks at how to fully harness the potential of distinctive brand assets to drive growth. In this second of two posts, we look at a…
This year our 16th annual brandgym research project looks at how to fully harness the potential of distinctive brand assets to drive growth. In this first of two posts, we look at…
This week, I came across the fascinating story of how The Tyrells brand of upmarket crisps* tackled the tyranny of price promotion. The brand owner, KP Snacks, bravely restored the…
Brands spend many millions of pounds on getting celebrities and influencers to endorse them. How can you maximise the effectiveness of this investment in driving distinctiveness? Cathal Gillen of partner…
New research from brandgym partner agency System 1 shows how 'digging for treasure' in your brand archive has the potential to pay off. The agency re-tested one of the first…
I’ve written before about the problem of brands “laddering” too high into the emotional stratosphere, losing all touch with the product. But the latest poster campaign from Expedia takes things…
Post by David Nichols, Group Managing Partner and Global Head of Invention. Lloyds bank is great example of creating, applying and building distinctive brand assets. I posted here about their…
We are often told that we have to choose between communicating the brand or selling the product. A simple one page press advert from the Rimowa brand of luggage shows…
This is the second of two posts on new research into brand assets by JKR x IPSOS (1). Last week we looked at the research method and the overall findings.…
More and more companies are recognising the role brand assets can play in marketing. In new brandgym research, to be published after the summer, 87% of marketing directors said brand…