Category: Strategic Insight

How to use AI for strategic brand messaging

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AI can generate content in seconds, but strategic brand messaging still requires judgement, nuance and craft. This article explores how the best marketing teams are using AI as a thinking partner—not a writing shortcut—to develop sharper positioning, stronger brand voices and more distinctive campaigns.

When branded content needs an engine

We’ve seen how branded content evolves from campaign support into institutional infrastructure. At a certain point, what’s needed isn’t more output – it’s an engine. There comes a point in many complex organisations when branded content stops being a marketing activity and starts becoming an operational, commercial responsibility. The shift is gradual. Calendars fill up… Read more »

Traditional vs challenger: how to position a finance brand in 2024

There have been few branding shake-ups as large and wide-ranging as the financial sector. In such a rapidly evolving market, how do traditional finance brands successfully position themselves against challenger banks? After decades of ‘brass plate and navy’ branding from the ‘big four’ who oversaw a virtual monopoly on the sector, new disruptors and challengers… Read more »