Mountain Dew’s gaming marketing strategy is one of the most studied and most misunderstood in the beverage category. The brand spent years, and significant budget, embedding itself in gaming culture through sponsorships, limited editions, and co-branded campaigns. Some of it worked. Some of it was expensive theatre that looked like cultural relevance from a distance…
The Verizon rebrand is one of the more instructive brand exercises of recent years, not because it is flawless, but because it exposes the tensions every large brand faces when it tries to modernise without losing what made it credible in the first place. Verizon shifted its visual identity, updated its brand voice, and repositioned…
JCPenney’s brand collapse is one of the most instructive case studies in modern retail history, not because the company made one catastrophic decision, but because it made a series of positioning errors that compounded over two decades. The retailer lost its target market by trying to be everything to everyone, then destroyed what remained of…
Coach’s brand marketing strategy is one of the more instructive turnarounds in modern luxury. Over roughly a decade, the brand moved from a heavily discounted, accessible accessories label to a credible luxury house operating under the Tapestry umbrella, without abandoning its American heritage or alienating its core customer base. That kind of repositioning is genuinely…
The Maxwell House rebrand is a case study in what happens when a brand mistakes activity for strategy. After decades of declining relevance, the brand launched a visual and positioning overhaul intended to reconnect with modern coffee drinkers. What it revealed instead was a deeper problem that no logo refresh can fix: when a brand…
Google’s cookieless future is not a single event that arrives on a fixed date. It is a structural shift in how digital advertising works, one that has been unfolding for years and will continue to reshape how marketers reach, measure, and retain audiences. The third-party cookie is functionally dead in Chrome, not by deletion but…
IPG’s AI strategy is one of the more coherent plays to emerge from the holding company world. Rather than announcing a single AI product and calling it a transformation, IPG has been building AI into its media planning infrastructure, creative production workflows, and data capabilities in a way that reflects how agencies actually operate at…
Innovative marketing strategies are approaches that break from category convention to reach new audiences, shift perception, or create demand that wasn’t previously there. The best recent examples share one quality: they solve a genuine business problem rather than chasing novelty for its own sake. After two decades running agencies and managing significant ad budgets across…
Coca-Cola’s AI-generated advertising has become one of the most discussed experiments in modern marketing, and not entirely for the right reasons. The brand used generative AI to recreate its iconic 1995 “Holidays Are Coming” Christmas ad, and the reaction was swift, polarised, and genuinely instructive for anyone thinking seriously about where this technology fits in…
Marketing silos exist when teams, data, and decisions operate in isolation from each other, producing fragmented customer experiences and wasted budget. They are not primarily a structural problem. They are a commercial problem, and they cost more than most marketing leaders are willing to admit. The fix is not a new org chart or a…
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