
Introducing Brand mRNA

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
... See moreZoe Scaman • The Synthesised Strategist

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

From Brand Strategy to Brand Anarchy
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