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Brand Strategy

A guide to creating successful brand merch

Experts from Chain, Fishwife, and Chili’s share their insights based on their biggest merch launches to date.


An illustration composed of three stills from Under Armour's most recent ad campaign, including players in a locker room wearing red jerseys, flag football player Diana Flores wearing a white Under Armour shirt, and football players including Justin Jefferson wearing an Under Armour shirt
Brand Strategy

Under the hood of Under Armour’s quest to reconnect with its football roots

The sports equipment brand “never got away” from football in its marketing, one exec said, but has been putting the sport more obviously front and center in recent years.


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Brand Strategy

What’s in a name? EV naming trends evolve to match the market

One of the latest entrants is the Ford Fathom, a name meant to convey a deep understanding of the customer.


Image of Whoop 4.0 fitness tracker on a person's wrist
Brand Strategy

Inside the marketing powering Whoop’s ‘pivotal’ next act

With a new slate of executives at the helm, the wearables company is focused on making deeper inroads in sports sponsorships as it looks to win over women consumers, CMO DJ van Hameren said.


a close-up of actor Nicholas Braun in a red sweater appears in an ad for Shinola
Brand Strategy

Inside the marketing strategy powering Shinola’s ‘new era’

A campaign with Nicholas Braun released last month is just the start of more brand-forward marketing from the American-made timepiece brand.


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Brand Strategy

The dos and don’ts of a logo refresh

Marketing Brew Weekly looks at the brands that have done a logo refresh—the right and wrong ways. From Spotify’s limited edition disco ball drama to Levi’s World Cup win, we run through the hits and misses.


Photo collage showing puppets from three different marketing campaigns: On the left, a cabbage puppet from Pinterest; in the middle, a Franken Berry puppet from General Mills, which looks roughly like a pink Frankenstein's monster; on the right, Liberty Biberty from Liberty Mutual, a fuzzy yellow sphere with big blue eyes and a human mouth wearing a Statue of Liberty crown.
Brand Strategy

Trying to personify your brand? Consider a puppet

As AI ads become increasingly commonplace across platforms, “nothing is more analog” than a handmade figurine, one executive told us.

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