Brand-led business

Airbnb reported its strongest ever quarterly results in the 4th quarter of 2021. Revenue of $1.5bn was up 38% vs. 2019. At the same time, sales and marketing spend decreased by 25% (excluding [...]

I thought I had seen it all when it comes to name change nonsense, with abrdn a recent example I posted on. But then my dad brought to my attention the ‘re-branding’ of Hermes, one of the one of [...]

This year we created a special set of new year postcards, celebrating the first 20 years of the brandgym: BG20. In the spirit of fresh consistency, we re-visited the postcards we did 10 years [...]

You can’t get a more traditional service than ‘the milkman’ (or milkperson as I guess they should be now called). Milkmen/women drive around delivering milk to your door on a daily basis. I [...]

This is the first of two posts sharing insights from our 14th annual research project on brand purpose. The research used a quantitative survey of 160+ senior marketing professionals across [...]

Post by Jon Goldstone, Managing Partner based in London. I must admit I’d never hear of Rimac until I recently read about their new 55/45 joint venture with Porsche: ‘Bugatti Rimac’. I was [...]

The most satisfying part of my job is seeing brandgym clients achieve their brand and business ambitions in the marketplace. A recent example was seeing the Castle Lite team and their agency [...]

Post by Bety Martinez, our brilliant brandgym Partner based in Mexico City. This week, I was moved by a report from Interbrand on “The pursuit of the barrier-free brand experience” (1). It is a [...]

I read with interest the Dixons Carphone group’s planned name change linked to brand portfolio rationalisation. In this post I explore why this change is strategically sound, in contrast to the [...]

On a plane (yes, a plane!) this week I read with interest Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of ‘female-first’ dating app Bumble, talking about her secrets of success in GQ (1). And [...]