Opinion

Phil Darby, BrandLounge On a scale of one to 10, where do you think your boring rating lies? It’s a fact of life that boring people don’t have a lot of friends. If you think that’s a sad reflection on humanity, check your diary. If...

Pierre Lategan, Bellwether Brand Consultancy It’s hard to believe that in the 17th century, being called an innovator could result in a fair bit of time in prison or the loss of your ears. In fact, ‘innovation’ as a word only trump...

Kat McCord and Simon Thackway   Criticize Hillary Clinton’s logo all you want, but it’s a breath of fresh air! Look back to her 2000 Senate race logo¹ (yes, we kept it), which no one wisecracked about because they were too busy fal...

By Neil Bayley   How can brands protect their public reputations? Neil Bayley, corporate director of London-based brand communications agency Good Relations analyses the HSBC and Tesco reputational crises These days, the public und...

Steve Keller, CEO, iV Audio Branding Brands are everywhere. With the advent of transmedia, the battle for consumer attention is more than a fight for recognition and recall. Engagement has become the new parlance of brand design, d...

Phil Owers, managing director, Papirfly Employer brand delivery is the engine room of employer brand strategy. It’s in the delivery that all of the meetings, research, creative and design come to life. At Papirfly we are at the sha...

Tony Lorenz, managing director, Europe, Latitude Agency Brand, reputation or trust? It’s an oft-asked question, but, says Latitude’s managing director, Europe, Tony Lorenz, it’s met with a different answer than it was in his early...

Diccon Ward, partner and head of brand experience, EC Harris Multiple brand touch points, multiple platforms, multiple sales channels – it’s all getting rather complicated. Should companies go back to basics with a more simplistic...

Alastair Herbert, managing director, Linguabrand Language-based branding and research consultancy Linguabrand quantifies underlying emotions in client conversations and the verbal identity of the brands talking to them. Language is...

By Stefan Liute If everybody had a say in everything around them, what would the world look like? Would we still have running water? Or broadband internet? Or straight, level roads for driving a hundred miles per hour? The same goe...