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Branding

Brand strategy, identity, and reputation.

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Branding

The Myth That Brand Marketing Cannot Be Measured

For years brand building has been treated as the fuzzy half of marketing, the spend you justify on faith while performance gets the spreadsheet. That reputation is not really about brand. It is about lazy measurement, and it is finally fixable.

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Coca-Cola Sharpened Its Look and the Internet Saw Marlboro

The soda giant rolled out a tighter global identity built to survive tiny phone screens and endless formats. The new type looked confident and clean, and within a day people online were holding it up next to a cigarette pack.

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How Epic Games Put AI Inside Fortnite Without Letting Go of the Pen

Epic Games showed exactly how AI sits inside Fortnite's design process, with artists using tools like Nano Banana and its own GenMedia Bridge to speed up concepting while keeping human judgment in charge. The demonstration was really a careful piece of brand management.

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Branding

AI Influencers Are Booming in the Gulf Because Brands Want Total Control

Virtual creators are moving from novelty to media strategy across the Middle East, and the agencies behind them say the appeal comes down to one word, control. Pixel, which calls itself the first AI influencer talent agency, wants to make Dubai the global home for synthetic stars. For brand owners, the promise of a flawless, always available face raises as many questions as it answers.

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Branding

Chinese Brands Stop Hiding Their Roots and Start Selling Them

For years the smartest branding move for a Chinese company chasing Western shoppers was to hide where it came from. Now brands from fast fashion to electric cars are doing the opposite, betting that being Chinese has flipped from a liability to manage into an asset to market.

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Branding

BYD Makes Its Sub-Brands Pay Their Own Way to Sharpen Their Identities

BYD is restructuring brands like Denza, Ocean, and Fang Cheng Bao to be accountable for their own profit and loss, and to own their own product, design, and channel decisions. It is an accounting change with a branding goal, ending the sameness that made its many badges blur together.

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