Archive: brand strategy

AI and Brand Trust: The Tipping Point is Now
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Partner Content

AI and Brand Trust: The Tipping Point is Now

Brands can build trust by addressing AI concerns, fostering transparency, and engaging in dialogue to strengthen loyalty and customer relationships.

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Lori Vellucci

SVP, Financial Services Practice Leader at CMB

8 Ways to Stand Out in a Competitive Insights Market
Grow Your Insights Business

8 Ways to Stand Out in a Competitive Insights Market

Stand out in the crowded insights market by staying authentic. Align with your values and deliver ways to connect with customers and drive differentia...

Norbert Sari

Norbert Sari

CEO & Creative Director at Rodeo13

Using Market Research to Identify Key Trends in B2B Video Marketing
Business-to-Business (B2B) Market Research

Using Market Research to Identify Key Trends in B2B Video Marketing

Market research helps B2B companies identify video marketing trends like personalization, short-form content, and educational videos to create effecti...

Michael Chukwube

Michael Chukwube

Digital Marketer & Content Writer at StartUp Growth Guide

From Mergers to Metaverse: Exploring the Latest Industry Developments
The Prompt

From Mergers to Metaverse: Exploring the Latest Industry Developments

Explore industry shifts, including major partnerships and mergers that enhance brand loyalty and dat...

Brand Tracking Tech 101
Brand Strategy

Brand Tracking Tech 101

Gain valuable insights into consumer preferences and behaviors with brand tracking. Stay ahead of the competition by monitoring key brand metrics cons...

Ashley Shedlock

Ashley Shedlock

Senior Content Coordinator at Greenbook

Qualtrics X4 Summit Takeaways: Strategic Leadership, Ethical AI, and Data Empowerment
Insights Industry News

Qualtrics X4 Summit Takeaways: Strategic Leadership, Ethical AI, and Data Empowerment

Uncover the latest trends in Strategic Leadership, Ethical AI, and Data Empowerment from the Qualtrics X4 Summit. Get valuable insights from top execu...

Karen Lynch

Karen Lynch

Head of Content at Greenbook

Marketing Applied Part Three: Tactics Without Strategy Is the Noise Before Defeat
Grow Your Insights Business

Marketing Applied Part Three: Tactics Without Strategy Is the Noise Before Defeat

Learn the key role of strategy in marketing, ensuring success by diagnosing needs, defining objectives, targeting audiences, and making intentional ch...

Iosetta Santini

Iosetta Santini

Account Director at Keen as Mustard Marketing

The ABCs (and DEFGs) of Brand Trackers: Unlocking Insights for Business Success in a Changing World
Brand Strategy

The ABCs (and DEFGs) of Brand Trackers: Unlocking Insights for Business Success in a Changing World

Stay ahead of the evolving landscape with our brand trackers. Gain valuable insights into consumer behavior and market trends by using the right techn...

Keri Vermaak

Keri Vermaak

Regional Engagement Director at Infotools

Beyond Price: The Currencies That Truly Drive Consumer Behavior
Behavioral Insights Academy

Beyond Price: The Currencies That Truly Drive Consumer Behavior

Explore the complex world of consumer behavior. Learn how time, social, physical, and emotional currencies influence purchasing decisions on our websi...

Hunter Thurman

Hunter Thurman

President at Alpha-Diver

Famous and Distinctive for What?
Gain & Retain®

Famous and Distinctive for What?

Gain insights into the significance of brand awareness and its measurement in marketing. Shape your brand's attributes strategically to drive category...

Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer at Forethought

Best Practices for Measuring Experiential Brand Activations
Advertising and Marketing Research

Best Practices for Measuring Experiential Brand Activations

Overcome the industry-wide struggle of measuring ROI in experiential brand activations through three crucial pillars of testing and discrete norms.

Dara St. Louis

Dara St. Louis

EVP, Founding Partner at Reach3 Insights

Trust Diagnostics Part Three: The full-blown crisis and the destruction of social license
Gain & Retain®

Trust Diagnostics Part Three: The full-blown crisis and the destruction of social license

Discover the evolving societal expectations of organizations and how they conduct themselves. How can breaching trust lead to loss of goodwill and bra...

Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer at Forethought

Brand Differentiation: A Reality the Dirichlet Model Can’t Account For
LevelUP Your Research

Brand Differentiation: A Reality the Dirichlet Model Can’t Account For

Reevaluate marketing strategies and research approaches by challenging the Ehrenberg Bass Institute's claim on brand differentiation.

Joel Rubinson

Joel Rubinson

President at Rubinson Partners Inc

Trust Diagnostics Part One: It’s Just a Passing Concern
Gain & Retain®

Trust Diagnostics Part One: It’s Just a Passing Concern

Learn how to handle negative publicity and identify the best course of action for your business with our article on the 'passing concern' category.

Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer at Forethought

Trust: You Can’t Fatten a Pig on Market Day
Gain & Retain®

Trust: You Can’t Fatten a Pig on Market Day

Delve into the significance of trust in branding and distinguish between various states - steady, concerning, and crisis. Gain insights on the applica...

Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer at Forethought

What to do When a “Breach of Trust” Unleashes an Unruly Mob
Gain & Retain®

What to do When a “Breach of Trust” Unleashes an Unruly Mob

Amidst media frenzy, uncertainty surrounds the appropriate response, the duration, and the impact on a brand. Should it endure or adopt an assertive a...

Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer at Forethought

The Heart of the Matter: Driving Brand Love
Focus on APAC

The Heart of the Matter: Driving Brand Love

In a world that is obsessed with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language processing, where do good old branding fundamentals sit? ...

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Anurag Porwal

Head of Insights & Analytics - APAC BCC at Kimberly Clark

Are your Experiments Misestimating the Effectiveness of your Advertising?
LevelUP Your Research

Are your Experiments Misestimating the Effectiveness of your Advertising?

Those in marketing analytics, research, and academia tend to view experiments as a gold standard.  Careful…test vs. control reads are hard work too. I...

Joel Rubinson

Joel Rubinson

President at Rubinson Partners Inc

The Essence of You: Crafting a Personal Brand with Sequoyah Glenn
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Greenbook

Editorial Team at Greenbook

Increase Market Value by Building Brand Attachment, Not Loyalty
Behavioral Insights Academy

Increase Market Value by Building Brand Attachment, Not Loyalty

In our current world of exponential brand choices, it is increasingly important to have a “sticky” customer base who keeps coming back for more. Not o...

William Leach

William Leach

Founder / Mindstate Group at Mindstate Group

Innovation Strategy Tools (Part 4): Roadmapping
Monthly Dose of Design

Innovation Strategy Tools (Part 4): Roadmapping

Last month, we talked about creating a red and blue ocean strategy for innovation and how it can help you create better products for your organization...

Nicholas Lee

Nicholas Lee

Senior Designer at Northstar Research

Why Motivational Psychology is the Secret to Elite Brand Advertising and Growth
Behavioral Insights Academy

Why Motivational Psychology is the Secret to Elite Brand Advertising and Growth

Identifying the core human motivation driving your category is critical for elite brand marketing because it allows insights professionals to help the...

William Leach

William Leach

Founder / Mindstate Group at Mindstate Group

The Most Important Lesson from Narrative Psychology and What it Means for Elite Branding
Behavioral Insights Academy

The Most Important Lesson from Narrative Psychology and What it Means for Elite Branding

Narrative psychology is a field of study that focuses on how customers make sense of their experiences and the world around them through stories and n...

William Leach

William Leach

Founder / Mindstate Group at Mindstate Group

Using Behavioral Science to Build Elite Brand Equity
Behavioral Insights Academy

Using Behavioral Science to Build Elite Brand Equity

In today’s marketplace, many comparable products and services are often available, making it difficu...

How to Estimate a Brand’s Cumulative Penetration by Analytics
LevelUP Your Research

How to Estimate a Brand’s Cumulative Penetration by Analytics

The measures from a survey I trust the most relate to market share. However, sometimes you need to know what percent of consumers engaged in a particu...

Joel Rubinson

Joel Rubinson

President at Rubinson Partners Inc

Women in Research: Embracing Equity in 2023 and Beyond
Insights Industry News

Women in Research: Embracing Equity in 2023 and Beyond

Editor’s Note: International Women’s Day is set apart to celebrate the achievements of women. Forbes suggests, “The day marks a call to action for acc...

Jessica Sage

Jessica Sage

Global Director of Marketing & Programming at Women In Research (WIRe)

It’s Supposed to be a Pipe Not a Funnel!
Gain & Retain®

It’s Supposed to be a Pipe Not a Funnel!

Why do top of the funnel insights measures such as brand health not perfectly translate into actual brand choice at the bottom of the funnel?  If it d...

Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer at Forethought

Does Your Brand Have a Cold, Wet Nose?
LevelUP Your Research

Does Your Brand Have a Cold, Wet Nose?

Many use the terms brand equity and brand health interchangeably; they shouldn’t. Brand equity refers to the size of a brand.  A brand with high brand...

Joel Rubinson

Joel Rubinson

President at Rubinson Partners Inc

How Mustard Helped Transform Engagement with Insights at Coca-Cola
Insights Business Growth

How Mustard Helped Transform Engagement with Insights at Coca-Cola

“They never, ever read the email” Sounds familiar? This was the number one challenge set to us by the head of insights at Coca-Cola Western Europe: to...

Lucy Davison

Lucy Davison

Founder & CEO at Keen as Mustard Marketing

Turn Disruption into Dynamism with Kantar’s Walker Smith
Leonard Murphy

Leonard Murphy

Chief Advisor for Insights and Development at Greenbook

Six Brand Strategies During Economic Uncertainty

Six Brand Strategies During Economic Uncertainty

Key learnings from previous uncertain times to help your brand.

Mohammed Bellamine

Mohammed Bellamine

Director of Customer Experience at Perksy

Fire! Aim! Ready! Are You Putting Your Marketing Tactics before Your Strategy?
Insights Business Growth

Fire! Aim! Ready! Are You Putting Your Marketing Tactics before Your Strategy?

Differentiating between strategy and tactics for successful marketing.

Lucy Davison

Lucy Davison

Founder & CEO at Keen as Mustard Marketing

Rethinking the Aging Population with Dave McCaughan
Leonard Murphy

Leonard Murphy

Chief Advisor for Insights and Development at Greenbook

No One Hates Shrinkflation More than Inflationaires

No One Hates Shrinkflation More than Inflationaires

Why brands should avoid ‘shrinkflation’ in the face of rising costs.

Hunter Thurman

Hunter Thurman

President at Alpha-Diver

What Really Motivates Consumer Behavior?
Gain & Retain®

What Really Motivates Consumer Behavior?

Should brands communicate trust, purpose, or choice?

Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer at Forethought

What Brands Can Learn from the Launch of Pinterest Predicts
Leonard Murphy

Leonard Murphy

Chief Advisor for Insights and Development at Greenbook

The Journey of One of PepsiCo’s Iconic Brands: The Research That Defined Fritos’ Appealing Human Truth
Anuradha Mohan

Anuradha Mohan

Manager, Strategic Insights at PepsiCo Foods North America

Trust Me, I’m Untrustworthy!
Gain & Retain®

Trust Me, I’m Untrustworthy!

Building consumer trust & dealing with breach of trust in your brand.

Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer at Forethought

Saying What’s Desirable and Doing What’s Favorable
Research Methodologies

Saying What’s Desirable and Doing What’s Favorable

The Say-Do Gap, Social Desirability Bias, and impacts on brand & MR.

Shane Skillen

Shane Skillen

Chief Executive Officer at Hotspex

Your Logo is a Storyteller
Insights Industry News

Your Logo is a Storyteller

Weighing in on descriptive vs. non-descriptive logos.

James Forr

James Forr

Head of Insights at Olson Zaltman

Do Customers “Love” Brands?
Brand Strategy

Do Customers “Love” Brands?

We explore whether consumers can love brands, and, if so, how and why.

Jamin Brazil

Jamin Brazil

Chairman & CEO at HubUX

Why Customer Loyalty is More Important than Ever

Why Customer Loyalty is More Important than Ever

Rising acquisition costs have led to brands’ customer-centric approach.

Ashley Lightfoot

Ashley Lightfoot

Content Marketing Manager at Latana

How to Remain Competitive in a Context of Rising Raw Material Prices and Rising Wages?
Olivier Blanchet

Olivier Blanchet

Chief Executive Officer at PRS IN VIVO

Market Research During Times of Inflation
Brand Strategy

Market Research During Times of Inflation

How can market research & businesses adapt to inflation?

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Conjoint.ly

Brand-building: What Brand Beliefs Can You Really Move?
LevelUP Your Research

Brand-building: What Brand Beliefs Can You Really Move?

Which attribute ratings are most responsive to ad spending?

Joel Rubinson

Joel Rubinson

President at Rubinson Partners Inc

Clif Bar & Company Uses Data to Lead Better-for-You and Better-for-the-Environment Product Development
Brand Strategy

Clif Bar & Company Uses Data to Lead Better-for-You and Better-for-the-Environment Product Development

Mintel’s work with their client, Clif Bar & Company, to expand its brand globally.

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Mintel

How to Effectively Conduct Research with Gen Z
Brand Strategy

How to Effectively Conduct Research with Gen Z

The types of communications that Gen Z tolerates.

Jamin Brazil

Jamin Brazil

Chairman & CEO at HubUX

Brand Loyalty: The Link between Attitudes and Behaviors
LevelUP Your Research

Brand Loyalty: The Link between Attitudes and Behaviors

Bringing attitudinal and behavioral perspectives together for predictive power.

Joel Rubinson

Joel Rubinson

President at Rubinson Partners Inc

Woops! We Forgot to Define Value!
Gain & Retain®

Woops! We Forgot to Define Value!

Applying the value chain approach to marketing communications.

Ken Roberts

Ken Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer at Forethought