Goodbye Relevance, Hello Relatability: The New Industry of Brand Connection
Rebecca Johnsonconceptbureau.com
Goodbye Relevance, Hello Relatability: The New Industry of Brand Connection
This is the new backdrop for brand strategy. Radical individualism is out, social connection is in. Brand focus is not on the end customer, but on the communities they belong to. Just as personas made individual consumers visible, the new brand methodology makes visible consumer communities and their co-dependencies and influences. New focus of eng
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Something about social media feels different this year.We’re watching a fundamental shift in how and where people want to engage online. As trust declines and user habits evolve, it’s clear we’re heading toward a new phase of social. So what does that mean for brands, users, and the future of social as we know it?🌊 Big platforms are losing their g... See more
Kiana Fathi • #socialstrategy #culture #stateofsocial | Kiana Fathi | 48 comments
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.
This beg
For us, Brand Universes are the inevitable next frontier of merging left and right brain thinking within the leadership of brands across the full spectrum of the creative industries. It’s a new growth path for brands seeking to increase their cultural relevance and their profits. Creating a Brand Universe is how longevity is truly created. Those le... See more
Christopher Morency • What Even Is a Brand Universe?
Something sinister happened over the past algorithmically driven decade: brands took a sharp turn toward efficiency and benefits mindshare, often focusing on a laundry list of functional and emotional whoop-de-doos.
It’s this paint-inside-the-lines mentality that stokes irrelevancy and meaninglessness. And the whole point of a brand is to create an ... See more
It’s this paint-inside-the-lines mentality that stokes irrelevancy and meaninglessness. And the whole point of a brand is to create an ... See more
From Brand Strategy to Brand Anarchy
