Celebrity endorsement advertising works when the celebrity’s credibility transfers to the brand, not when a brand borrows fame and hopes some of it sticks. The distinction sounds obvious. In practice, most brands get it wrong, paying premium fees for association without doing the harder work of making that association mean something commercially. Done well, celebrity…
A mascot brand uses a character, animal, or persona as the primary vehicle for brand recognition and emotional connection. The character becomes shorthand for the brand’s values, personality, and promise, doing work that a logo or tagline alone cannot. Done well, a mascot collapses the distance between a brand and its audience faster than almost…
Content optimization for AI search platforms requires a fundamentally different approach than traditional SEO. Where Google rewards documents that rank well for specific queries, AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews reward content that answers questions clearly, demonstrates genuine authority, and can be extracted and synthesized without ambiguity. The mechanics are different. The…
Subscription business model growth stalls not because companies fail to acquire customers, but because they fail to keep them. The economics are straightforward: recurring revenue compounds when retention is strong and erodes fast when it is not. Most subscription businesses underinvest in the second half of that equation. This article looks at the structural reasons…
Situational crisis communication theory holds that the right crisis response depends on the type of crisis you are facing and how much responsibility your organisation is perceived to bear for it. Get that match wrong and your response makes things worse, not better. The framework, developed by W. Timothy Coombs, gives communicators a structured way…
TV campaign effectiveness is the gap between what your media plan promises and what your business actually gets. Most marketers measure it wrong, not because they lack data, but because they confuse activity metrics with commercial outcomes. A campaign that delivers strong reach and frequency can still fail to move revenue, and understanding why that…
An employer value proposition is the set of reasons a person chooses to work for your organisation over any other, and stays once they arrive. It covers compensation, culture, career development, purpose, and the day-to-day experience of the work itself. Done well, it is one of the most commercially useful things a brand can build….
Principal-based media buying is when an agency purchases media inventory with its own money, then resells that inventory to clients at a marked-up price. Unlike traditional agency-of-record arrangements where the agency acts as your agent, buying on your behalf and disclosing all costs, principal buying puts the agency on the other side of the transaction….
Marketing planning is the process of defining what you want your marketing to achieve, what resources you have to do it, and how you will measure whether it worked. Done well, it gives your team clarity, your budget a purpose, and your board something credible to hold you to. Done badly, it produces a document…
Brand visibility in generative AI search results is shaped by a combination of content authority, structured data, citation signals, and how well your brand is represented across the sources that AI models draw from. Unlike traditional search, where ranking is largely a function of links and on-page optimisation, generative AI surfaces answers by synthesising information…
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