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How to Build a Brand Before Finding Product–Market Fit

How to Build a Brand Before Finding Product–Market Fit

What happens when you start building a brand before you know exactly what the brand is? That is the challenge facing Noli, the L’Oreal backed AI skincare startup.

Brand Building Marketing

Hannah Bowler

Hannah Bowler

Aug 26, 2026 — 4 min read
Great Brands Need Cultural Curiosity

Great Brands Need Cultural Curiosity

Long before he was building brands, Squarespace’s Nate Skinner was studying culture through record sleeves and the sprawling web of Britpop‑era music journalism – a habit he now credits with proving that cultural curiosity, more than anything else, is what helps brands find their audience.

Brandmakers Brand Building

Hannah Bowler

Hannah Bowler

Aug 25, 2026 — 3 min read
How Search Intent Can Move Culture

How Search Intent Can Move Culture

Fans do more than just watch sports. They search, plan and buy around them. Emma Welch unpacks how live search intent around tentpole events reveals what people want to do next – and how brands can use those signals to move faster, target smarter and stay ahead of the game.

Sport Tech

Emma Welch

Emma Welch

Aug 23, 2026 — 4 min read
From Fast Culture to Slow Movements

From Fast Culture to Slow Movements

Scrolling back through notes from Cannes Lions 2026, one idea kept appearing: brands may finally be tiring of fast culture and starting to trade viral, fleeting moments for work that actually lasts.

Culture Marketing

Hannah Bowler

Hannah Bowler

Aug 20, 2026 — 4 min read
The Only Moat Left Is Brand

The Only Moat Left Is Brand

For the last decade, marketing has been less about creativity and emotion and more about data and measurement. If you could track or optimise it, you did. If you couldn’t prove it, it slipped down the priorities list. For many brands, that worked… until it didn’t.

Brand Building Tech

Alex Zeevalkink

Alex Zeevalkink

Aug 19, 2026 — 5 min read
"Brand’s Got Its Mojo Back"

"Brand’s Got Its Mojo Back"

Senior brand marketer Cassie Hall explains why brand building is now becoming training data and how she is excited to finally see the return of brand marketing.

Brand Building Marketing

Hannah Bowler

Hannah Bowler

Aug 17, 2026 — 3 min read
Think Influence, Not Coverage

Think Influence, Not Coverage

The old media hierarchy is being disrupted by creators and new forms of media. Hannah Martin argues that PR teams should embrace these emerging mediums and rethink how to build influence.

Marketing Tech

Hannah Martin

Hannah Martin

Aug 14, 2026 — 5 min read
Uncut with Andrew Barnard, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at 20(Something)

Uncut with Andrew Barnard, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at 20(Something)

As the world hurtles through a decade of disruption, 20(Something) co-founder Andrew Barnard explains why building an agency for this moment meant ruthlessly focussing on three disciplines and always reminding himself that the work can actually contribute to a better future.

Uncut Creativity

Alex Zeevalkink

Alex Zeevalkink

Aug 13, 2026 — 1 min read

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