Mike Renaud
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Mike Renaud
“I think that instead of the Brand, we should figure out the Purpose of Airbnb and its community. There clearly is a huge and vital community of Hosts, Guests and Employees. Let’s figure out what role Airbnb plays in their lives and why they are committed to it. If we can do that, then it will be much easier to figure out what Airbnb’s Brand is.... See more
Douglas Atkin • How Airbnb found its Purpose and why it’s a good one.
Who’s going to bother with all the work it takes to make a track successful on streaming services, if you can net more revenue faster through much more pleasant dynamics on your own terms?
Bas Grasmayer • ✖️ How the emerging Web3 WILL and WON’T disrupt music streaming
Productivity and
The ability to subtract features is the rare gift of the true communicator.
Marty Neumier • The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
Getting back to those terrible purpose-led, strategy-showing ads. It’s possible they’re working and that they’re successfully tugging on the heartstrings of consumers and causing the kind of emotional resonance that drives successful advertising. I doubt it, but maybe. But if they’re not also delivering “salience,” which I can’t imagine they are... See more
Noah Brier • The Brand Positioning Edition
