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The Only Prediction That Matters to Me as a Brand Strategist in 2025

Things have been getting weird lately. I’m not talking about “shock value weird” or “gross weird”. I’m talking about the kind of weirdness we feel when we’re forced to embrace contradictions, and contradictions are starting to show up everywhere.

Culture

The Real Reason We’re Obsessed with Halloween Like Never Before

Brand Strategy

Branding in the Age of Moral Static

Brand Strategy

Information Nutrition

Brand Strategy

Convergence Literacy & Brand Innovation

Brand Strategy

Branding In A Post-Funnel World

Brand Strategy

Brands & Outliers: The Distance Model of Status

THIS IS HOW SURVIVAL STORIES SHAPE OUR CULTURE

Culture

Great strategists don’t ask who will win. They ask what the world will look like when the truths of today are false tomorrow.

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Brand Strategy

Brands & Outliers: Sensemaking at the Extremes

Brand Strategy

In an AI World, Everyone Will Need to Come Home

Brand Strategy

Brands & Outliers: All of our fundamental institutions are in the exploration phase at once

Brand Strategy

AI Has Already Changed Your User

Brand Strategy

Brands & Outliers: The Negativity Economy, Flatlining of Culture, and the Year AI Comes to Work

Brand Strategy

The Cultural Code of the Cool Old Guy

Brand Strategy

Creating New Units of Culture

Brand Strategy

Branding In The Eternal Now

Brand Strategy

Strategic Lessons to Take Into The New Year

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