How to Move From Social Marketing to Brand Marketing
what would it mean for brands to stop pointing to culture, and to start being it? To do so, they would have to go far beyond marketing, to offer meaningful modes of participation. Is it even possible for companies to be in service of something greater than themselves?
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
To systematically build iconic brands, companies must reinvent their marketing function. They must assemble cultural knowledge, rather than knowledge about individual consumers. They must strategize according to cultural branding principles, rather than apply the abstracted and present-tense mind-share model. And they must hire and train cultural a... See more
Douglas Holt • Branding as Cultural Activism
Consider modern brand building. In an age where a brand can be built in days or destroyed in hours, the synthesised strategist knows how to combine:
• Traditional brand architecture with meme theory
• Cultural anthropology with real-time data analysis
• Community dynamics with performance marketing
• Long-term brand building with short-term cultural re
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