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Beyond the Tote Bag: The New Rules for Sustainable Merch

Opinion

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Beyond the Tote Bag: The New Rules for Sustainable Merch

What happens when brands stop treating merchandise as "stuff with a logo" and start engineering products people actually keep

Dec 12, 2025

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
The Forgotten Sense That's Costing You Sales

Opinion

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The Forgotten Sense That's Costing You Sales

Why the music playing in your store right now is either making you money or losing it—and you probably don't even know which.

Dec 5, 2025

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Why iShowSpeed Is The Ultimate Stress Test For Modern Branding

Deep Dive

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Why iShowSpeed Is The Ultimate Stress Test For Modern Branding

How a 20-year-old chaos streamer with 45 million subscribers is proving that brands need to stop renting attention and start building shows.

Dec 4, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
MrBeast and the Question Every Brand Builder Should Be Asking

Deep Dive

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MrBeast and the Question Every Brand Builder Should Be Asking

At 449 million subscribers and $92 million given away, Jimmy Donaldson built the most successful creator brand in history. What his rise and reckoning reveals about building brands in the attention economy.

Nov 6, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
The Imperfection Shift: Why Polish Is Out

Opinion

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The Imperfection Shift: Why Polish Is Out

Why audiences are choosing raw and real over perfect and produced.

Oct 30, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Healing Is Hot Right Now

Opinion

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Healing Is Hot Right Now

After eight years with traditional healers, here's what the wellness industry doesn't understand about transformation.

Oct 23, 2025

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
The Nervous System Is the New Marketing Funnel

Deep Dive

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The Nervous System Is the New Marketing Funnel

What really triggers engagement today and how creatives can design for feeling, not addiction.

Oct 16, 2025

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Saudi Arabia’s $6 Billion Brand Play Is Working. And We Let It.

Culture

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Saudi Arabia’s $6 Billion Brand Play Is Working. And We Let It.

From boxing rings to comedy stages, Saudi Arabia is rewriting its global image - one billion-dollar event at a time.

Oct 10, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
When Vulnerability Becomes a Branding Superpower

Deep Dive

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When Vulnerability Becomes a Branding Superpower

How Serena Williams turned a weight loss confession into marketing gold

Oct 2, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
The Oreo × Reese's Collab That Just Rewrote Business Rules

Deep Dive

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The Oreo × Reese's Collab That Just Rewrote Business Rules

How three simple ingredients (nostalgia + novelty + psychological permission) predict collaboration success.

Sep 25, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
The Uncomfortable Truth About Customer Motivations

Culture

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The Uncomfortable Truth About Customer Motivations

Stop trying to predict cultural trends. Start focusing on how you show up every single day.

Sep 18, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
How Trends Are Slowly Killing Your Creativity

Opinion

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How Trends Are Slowly Killing Your Creativity

The branding trap nobody talks about until your ideas start looking like everyone else's.

Sep 4, 2025

Lucia Rivas Alfonzo
Lucia Rivas Alfonzo
How Zuck Won and Musk Lost the Identity Game

Deep Dive

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How Zuck Won and Musk Lost the Identity Game

What happens when your personality becomes your product

Aug 28, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
TripAdvisor's Rebrand That Chose Humans Over Algorithms

Deep Dive

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TripAdvisor's Rebrand That Chose Humans Over Algorithms

Most saw a design refresh. The real story is how TripAdvisor repositioned against Google, AI, and big OTAs with one strategic bet

Aug 21, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Make Me Feel It: When Brands Stop Talking and Start Living

Opinion

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Make Me Feel It: When Brands Stop Talking and Start Living

Why your brain chooses Subway's smell over your logo and the smart brands that figured this out.

Aug 7, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
How Bad Bunny Made Going Home the Ultimate Flex in Branding

Deep Dive

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How Bad Bunny Made Going Home the Ultimate Flex in Branding

The branding playbook that turned cultural values into $200M and made the world come to Puerto Rico

Jul 31, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
The Safety Trap: Why Playing It Safe Is Killing Your Brand

Opinion

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The Safety Trap: Why Playing It Safe Is Killing Your Brand

How Liquid Death, Graza, and Dr. Squatch escaped the beige trap

Jul 17, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
AI Isn't Killing Creativity. We Already Did That.

Tips

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AI Isn't Killing Creativity. We Already Did That.

While everyone panics about algorithms, the real problem is hiding in plain sight. Plus, why this creates a massive opportunity...

Jul 10, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
How Netflix Turned F1 Into The Greatest Soap Opera Ever Made

Deep Dive

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How Netflix Turned F1 Into The Greatest Soap Opera Ever Made

The storytelling formula that created 70 million fans who don't watch races

Jun 26, 2025

Tom Mackay
Jair Lucena
Tom Mackay, +1
Nepo Baby or Beauty Mogul? The Rise of Hailey Bieber’s Rhode

Deep Dive

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Nepo Baby or Beauty Mogul? The Rise of Hailey Bieber’s Rhode

Rhode launched with 3 products, no retail stores, and a vibe so dialled in that e.l.f. wrote the cheque. This is how it happened.

Jun 19, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Run Clubs: The Unexpected Branding Flex

Deep Dive

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Run Clubs: The Unexpected Branding Flex

How sweaty strangers are schooling million-dollar brands on community building

Jun 12, 2025

Tom Mackay
Jair Lucena
Tom Mackay, +1
Are You Building Culture or Just Stealing It?

Deep Dive

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Are You Building Culture or Just Stealing It?

The difference between brands that belong and brands that get called out.

May 29, 2025

Tom Mackay
Jair Lucena
Tom Mackay, +1
Who’s Actually Winning Gen Z? These 5 Brands.

Deep Dive

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Who’s Actually Winning Gen Z? These 5 Brands.

Breaking through with the generation that sees through everything.

Apr 2, 2025

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay

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