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

I have a hot take on why Halloween is taking over more and more of our lives.

I think we’re using Halloween to explore our unprocessed grief as a culture.

Sales for the holiday are booming, Target added a whopping 1,300 Halloween SKUs this year, and the most Americans ever report they will be celebrating. It’s not a day or month anymore, Halloween is a whole season.

We want more Halloween.

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

Brand Strategy

Brands & Outliers: Sensemaking at the Extremes

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.

How To Think Like A Brand Strategist: READ MORE

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

Brand Strategy

Announcing A New Community for Strategic Minds

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