In brand, your customers view of the world and how your offer adds value to them is all important. Sometimes if you’re fortunate enough, your customers will actually even communicate their impressions of your brand, what it’s doing well and where it’s falling short for them. Social media provides brands with a sound-track of customer conversation which is a ready source of rich insight. But customer conversations are only valuable to a business when they have the mind-set to listen, interpret and act.
Posts Tagged ‘brand-gesture’
A great reminder that often when it comes to brand communication – the simple ideas are often the best. In a wonderful brand gesture, the owners of this bike shop north of Berlin attached around 120 bicycles to the facade of their store to draw attention to their business. Simple.
Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
A Big, Bold Brand Experience by Design
Powergig.com recently hired a plane to fly over the active volcano in Reykjavic, Iceland so that could drop a bundle of fake guitars into it. They filmed the act and posted it to the net in a graphic piece of brand storytelling. A bold gesture indeed given that they’re brand is all about ‘rockin’ it real’.
The video’s shot by the guys at Droga5. Not sure this rings with the rock authenticity the brand demands, but kind of a cool thing to do all the same.
David Ansett, Brandamentalist
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Designer of Brands that Rock It Real.
Brand Theatre of the Highest Order
Passengers on a recent Lufthansa flight from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt experienced the type of brand gesture most businesses can only dream of.
I Feel Out of Place
A photo I snapped early one Saturday morning in our local park.
I was wondering what came first the chair or the message.
And then fell-in love with the meaning.
I hope you enjoy this sight as much as I did.
Dave Ansett, Brandamentalist
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Enjoyer of Unlikely Messages
Following the trend of pop-up brand experiences, a whole bunch of New York City residents spent the weekend, cavorting in three unused dumpsters converted into micro swimming pools as a way of taking the third annual Summer Streets festival to the streets. The pop-up pools were set-up on Park Avenue this weekend for eager swimmers to enjoy and to get tongues wagging with some a-grade brand storytelling.
It all Starts with Brand Clarity
Like all of the hardest working brand communication campaigns, this little gem for Mitchum from the US has at its core a clear brand proposition hard-wired with with customer benefit. Mitchum is an antiperspirant brand with a well defined proposition – America’s Hardest Working Antiperspirant. As with all brands – having absolute clarity around their brand strategy – what you stand for and your differentiated proposition provide the basis for creative communication campaigns that work harder and smarter than the rest. Mitcham took their ‘Hardest Working’ proposition and leveraged it into an integrated brand marketing campaign to find America’s hardest workers. However, not happy to sit on the strength of the idea, it is the quality of the execution of the Mitchum campaign that have delivered on the promise of the brand.







