Research Methodologies.
Cultural Strategy.
Culture exists at the heart of all good, future-proof brand strategies. This is why we focus on highlighting the broad cultural forces impacting consumers’ perceptions, behaviors and purchase decisions while uncovering fresh new white space opportunities to inspire client activations & innovation strategies.
Key product offerings:
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Brand Messaging Semiotic Decoders
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Industry & Category Semiotic Decoders
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Competitive Landscape Analysis
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Future Trends Scoping
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Emergent Trends & Innovation Pipeline Planning
Sustainability Cultural Immersions
Beauty. Innovation. Semiotics.
Visiting emergent retail locations to evaluate and examine how brands are innovating in the space of sustainability as it pertains to personal care.
Emergent Solutions for Segmentations
Cultural Strategy. Semiotics. Segmentations.
Utilizing cultural insights to identify fresh, new & emergent ways to connect with the needs of key audiences identified through a segmentation strategy approach.
Telecommunications B2B Branding
Telecommunications. Tech. Semiotics.
A semiotic & competitive analysis of the telecommunications landscape to identify how B2B brands were communicating to consumers, the key archetypes they employed, and areas of opportunity for the client to consider moving forward.
Disrupting the Jewelry Category
Fashion & Retail. Brand Strategy. Semiotics.
An in-depth, mixed method investigation of the jewelry category in order to understand what it means to consumers, why it resonates and what brands need to do in the space to catch their attention in order to develop & finalize a North American positioning strategy and 360 degree marketing & activation plan.
Innovations in Food & Beverage
Food & Beverage. Cultural Strategy. Innovation. Semiotics.
An analysis of specific brand pillars to understand how they show up in the food & beverage space and to identify emergent new trends, products and opportunities arising within each pillar to feed innovation pipelines.
Decoding Luxury in Western Europe
Luxury. Cultural Strategy.
A deeply rich analysis on the history of luxury in Western Europe and how it came to be, with an emphasis on how it is specifically different from American luxury and what that means for luxury brands desiring to activate in new and interesting ways in Europe.
Repositioning an Iconic Food Brand
Food & Beverage. Brand Strategy. Multicultural Strategy. Semiotics.
Combining a mix of consumer insights, cultural insights, multicultural insights & brand strategy over the course two years to determine and finalize the internal positioning & brand promise for a national food brand.
Optimizing Internal Pillars For Innovations in Food & Bev
Food & Beverage. Cultural Strategy. Innovation. Semiotics.
Decoding client’s internal pillars & segmentation frameworks to evaluate how meanings associated with those pillars have changed overtime and to identify how those meanings may or may not be showing up in their respective categories.
Global Positioning for Pain Relief
Pharma. Cultural Strategy.
A deep dive into the cultural significance of a central brand positioning idea and the key historical and signified meanings over time may impact how that message is communicated differently across Mexico, Brazil, Italy and the US.
Decoding Value
Food & Beverage. Cultural Strategy. Semiotics.
Understanding how “value” shows up in the fast food and restaurant landscape in order to determine newer more emergent ways to activate against it.
Tracking Cultural Shifts in Beauty
Beauty. Cultural Strategy.
An analysis of the larger cultural shifts impacting consumers perceptions, behaviors and purchase decisions on a daily basis coupled with an in-depth look into how these shifts will ultimately will impact the beauty space today and in the future.
Brand Archetype Development
Telecommunications. Cultural Strategy.
An in-depth analysis and exploration of the key archetypes ruling the telecommunications category in order to identify new archetype opportunities for a brand seeking to develop a more consistent but memorable brand voice & tone in the marketplace.