Fresh Today, Faded Tomorrow? Brand Resilience in a Changing World

Hype became a dirty word, and longevity increasingly feels like a myth.

Virality got conflated with relevance, while relevance comes with the curse of becoming imminently passé. Whist new gen brands like Corteiz are propped up by persistent presence, institutions such as Apple resist exploring their own hype, choosing omnipresence instead.

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High differentiation, low durability. There’s a lot of fashion, luxury, travel and entertainment brands and the entire genre of DTC brands that are very much talked about for a moment, only to fade into obscurity/low consumer preference once the negative effects of their fractured internal cultures, lack of new funding/revenue, lack of brand-buildi... See more

And I think that is going to remain, easily for the next year or two. And it might be a fundamental shift, you know, just like there’s going to be a fundamental shift in consumption patterns, online versus offline. I think people are going to be up for making brands that have a bit of emotion. And make decisions not always with the bottom line in m... See more