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Strategy that speaks to culture

We create powerfully strategic brands that make markets, win markets and move the collective experience forward.

Brand Strategy

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Brand Strategy

From Ghosts to Gods

I had the very good fortune of being among my people this past week. Really among them, in the flesh. It’s easy to take zoom

Brand Strategy

Death Is Our Missing Technology

We are a culture surrounded by losses we haven’t yet processed. Things that are kind of dead but we won’t let them die completely. So

Brand Strategy

Signs of Life

I took my kids to Disneyland last weekend in 93°F heat. You can plan for the rides and check the weather, but something about that

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Strategy In Your Inbox

Brands That Change The Rules of Their Space

We build brands that act as an inflection point, the before-and-after symbols of their space. These are the brands that make new meaning for users and change the rules of their categories.

We’re obsessed with culture, behavior, mental models, market dynamics and business strategy because we know that a brand is the predictive interpretation of all of these signals.

Brand strategy, big or small, is the only way to pull your users into the future you envision.

We were in the middle of a major paradigm shift at Skillshare, and we couldn’t have found a better partner to capture the essence of what we wanted to achieve with our brand. From our user experience to our content philosophy and overall brand design, they put in the work to help us rethink our position in the category.

Matt Cooper
CEO, Skillshare

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Podcast with Jasmine Bina

A brand strategy and culture podcast where we ask, “Why is society moving in this direction, and how can we apply it to business?”

9:

What should brands be doing in the time of Covid-19?

April 8,2020

Previously

8:

How We Consume Fear in a Time of Crisis, and the Brands That Change the Story

7:

Cultural Constructs Are The Real Brand Opportunity

Insight Download :

How To Be Different, Not Better

Faster, cheaper, more convenient, longer list of features – these are all measures of being ‘better’, and better will always be a losing game for your brand. Look around and it’s not hard to see: a lot of superior product and service companies still lose to brands that dare to be different in their perspectives.

It’s not easy, but to be different is to expand your frame of reference, and that’s a paradigm shift very much worth exploring.

This report tells you how.

In the News :

Jumpstart Magazine

Unseen Unknown Delves Into the Relationship Between Business Trends and Culture

Sept.1, 2020

The Week

Why the ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Blackout Videos Are Better Than Most Corporate Wokeness

Aug.4, 2020

Let’s Talk Branding

Brands With a Story

sept.27, 2020

Luxury Daily

Gucci Taps Emerging Filmmakers for Sneaker Storytelling

Sept.1, 2020

One Interesting thing

One Interesting Thing is a video series where we dive into one big idea in order to understand the world, our culture, and ourselves a little better.

War Stories

War stories have always had a special place in American culture – the War on Cancer, War on Drugs, War on Poverty, the Battle of the Sexes, Fight Against Climate Change… the list goes on and on. How has all of this war rhetoric, much of it false, shaped our thinking? Where did these stories even come from, and most importantly, where will they take us?

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