The Rio Olympics Creates a Rash of Sponsorship Campaigns Global brands pay big money to sponsor the Olympic games. They will all have their own specific objectives for this activity which will include metrics such as engendering employee pride, building brand awareness and positive brand engagement, increasing customer loyalty and, if they’ve played their cards … Read more

Why Farming Out Branding Is A Good Idea If you go back to the 1960s and 1970s, supermarket own label brands were almost universally the equivalent of today’s value brands and the Tesco Delamare and Golden Ring brands were seen as relatively poor quality but very low cost. A reflection of the Jack Cohen “pile … Read more

In a perfect world most companies would never need to rebrand because they got it so comprehensively right first time. The logo, colours and typefaces would start out fresh and exciting – the epitome of the new brand’s values – and by the end of the brand’s life they would be classic icons where the … Read more

Savse: how would you pronounce this? ‘Sav-say’ or ‘sav-see’ or ‘saves’? This nutritious and tasty drinks brand has spent quite a lot of money to clarify exactly this. Not only is it a waste of their time, money and effort when they should be focusing on promoting the brand, it also creates confusion. On this billboard, the pronunciation … Read more

A dramatic love story between a man and woman, but with an interesting gender role twist. The latest Chanel No 5 advert directed by Baz Luhrmann, with actors Gisele Bündchen and Michiel Huisman, has provoked a mixture of good, bad and confused responses, but regardless of its reviews, it has certainly managed to stir up … Read more

Durex have used their Valentine’s campaign to attack the boring clichés linked to this annual event. They’ve created a new commercial which shows a couple mowing down a field of roses and then crashing into each other in a frenzy of excitement. Durex claim the creative approach comes out of research which found that 49 … Read more

At a conference in Paris this week, Coca Cola’s CMO, Marcos de Quinto, explained why the company was changing its global strategy to market all its products under “One Brand” and how that will help Coca-Cola boost sales amid growing health concerns across the world about sweet drinks. His rationale is that the previous sub-brand … Read more