"Innovation is doing things differently in order to do them better," says JR Little, head of innovation at Dentsu Aegis agency Carat. That sentiment defined the second day of the Dubai Lynx festival....
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Going glocal: Dubai Lynx, day 1
It's no secret that brands are interested in the Middle East. Western retailers and luxury brands have jumped on the new opportunities to provide unique experiences to discerning audiences, B2B companies have expa...
Moving the brand goalposts
Given the task of assigning a sport to the US, one could be forgiven for immediately thinking of baseball, basketball, or even American football. All are huge entertainment spectacles involving heady amounts of sponso...
Not a one-trick pony
Concomitant to royalty, Olympic dressage events and televised sports presenter Clare Balding, horse riding is often a hobby associated almost exclusively with the upper echelons of society....
Time for change
Time Out is a brand as synonymous with London life as tube trains, red telephone boxes, and the plethora of jellied eel shops once littering the city's East End....
UK awards for employer branding
For branding and communications professionals, particularly those working in talent management, HR and recruitment, the concept of the employer brand is likely to have been on the radar for some time....
Spotlight on Odeon
Cinemas once drew audiences for the experiences they offered rather than the films they had on offer. British chain Odeon is using that ethos to reinvigorate its brand experience. Emily Andrews reports on the new visu...
Going nuts for nuts
Creative agency, Kingdom & Sparrow, branded Pistachio Provenance with a contemporary new design and website. With its striking and smart packaging, the recent lau...
The type writer: American presidential race
Bruno Maag examines how the branding of the American presidential race inspires modernity, revolution and dread Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign set a new st...
Virus outbreak forces car name change
Sometimes a brand product name can fall foul of external forces. When this leads to a brand being linked to something unarguably negative, the manufacturers must make the decision to either rescind its name, or battle...