“In our words,” Siegel+Gale’s ongoing Chief Marketing Officer study series, surveys marketing leaders across diverse industries with an eye to the many impacts and changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Siegel+Gale
February 2022
Research
In their words: Healthcare looking to the future
“In our words,” Siegel+Gale’s ongoing Chief Marketing Officer study series, surveys marketing leaders across diverse industries with an eye to the many impacts and changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Siegel+Gale
February 2022
The economic meltdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will have severe secular repercussions in the US, Europe and around the world. The financial reengineering and corporate restructuring soon to occur is certain to result in a spate of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Some of these transactions will be domination plays, where financially stable market leaders will acquire vulnerable competitors, coveted technologies or entry to new markets...
Howard Belk + Matt Egan
September 2022
Research
Brand building for the coming wave of corporate M&A
The economic meltdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will have severe secular repercussions in the US, Europe and around the world. The financial reengineering and corporate restructuring soon to occur is certain to result in a spate of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Some of these transactions will be domination plays, where financially stable market leaders will acquire vulnerable competitors, coveted technologies or entry to new markets...
Howard Belk + Matt Egan
September 2022
According to Harvard professor Gerald Zaltman, 95% of purchasing choices are subconscious. Princeton researchers also found that it took less than 0.1 seconds for people to form judgements about faces from pictures they were shown. The question is then, how do you appeal to customers’ subconscious in little more than a split second?
Sophie Lutman
July 2021
Research
Visual Identity: Fixed. Flexible. Simple.
According to Harvard professor Gerald Zaltman, 95% of purchasing choices are subconscious. Princeton researchers also found that it took less than 0.1 seconds for people to form judgements about faces from pictures they were shown. The question is then, how do you appeal to customers’ subconscious in little more than a split second?
Sophie Lutman
July 2021
As the human cost of Covid-19 escalates, so does the economic cost. With a baseline predication of global GDP contraction sitting at 5.2%, the fallout has been significant. Despite this, many see big opportunities.
Siegel+Gale
February 2021
Research
Branding for an Initial Public Offering: Simple. Purposeful. Memorable. Scalable.
As the human cost of Covid-19 escalates, so does the economic cost. With a baseline predication of global GDP contraction sitting at 5.2%, the fallout has been significant. Despite this, many see big opportunities.
Siegel+Gale
February 2021
Research
Experience: Listen. Simplify. Adapt.
Brands today don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re not unilateral, broadcasting to the world what they want people to believe about them. They’re dynamic, shaped and felt by people – their customers, their partners, their investors or their employees – across every touchpoint. Each audience passes judgement based on how that brand shows up, how it speaks to them, and how it makes them feel.
Siegel+Gale
December 2020
Research
Experience: Listen. Simplify. Adapt.
Brands today don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re not unilateral, broadcasting to the world what they want people to believe about them. They’re dynamic, shaped and felt by people – their customers, their partners, their investors or their employees – across every touchpoint. Each audience passes judgement based on how that brand shows up, how it speaks to them, and how it makes them feel.
Siegel+Gale
December 2020
2020 has not gone to plan. Our previous CMO study, conducted during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, revealed a set of leaders focused on steering their businesses and teams through uncharted waters with unbelievable agility, and who were also beginning to look to the future.
Siegel+Gale
December 2020
Research
In their words: B2B tech CMOs on what’s next
2020 has not gone to plan. Our previous CMO study, conducted during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, revealed a set of leaders focused on steering their businesses and teams through uncharted waters with unbelievable agility, and who were also beginning to look to the future.
Siegel+Gale
December 2020
Branding firms are popularly thought of as creating brands. The truth is, we spend a good deal of our time rationalizing them. We call this disciplinebrand architecture.As the term implies, brand architecture defines the structure of brands within a portfolio, and so it is closely related to portfolio strategy...
Lea Chu
September 2020
Research
Brand Architecture – Streamline. Simplify. Amplify.
Branding firms are popularly thought of as creating brands. The truth is, we spend a good deal of our time rationalizing them. We call this disciplinebrand architecture.As the term implies, brand architecture defines the structure of brands within a portfolio, and so it is closely related to portfolio strategy...
Lea Chu
September 2020
Research
Naming for Generations
Over the last two decades, marketers and branders have continuously tried to determine how to reach the new, younger generation. Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are the focus of so much brand research. Should brands be adapted to this generation and its specific desires?
Aaron Hall
August 2020
Research
Naming for Generations
Over the last two decades, marketers and branders have continuously tried to determine how to reach the new, younger generation. Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are the focus of so much brand research. Should brands be adapted to this generation and its specific desires?
Aaron Hall
August 2020
Our new normal is unavoidable: every day brings new questions and uncertainty given the COVID-19 epidemic. Between dealing with personal implications of social separation and approaching the immediate crisis communication needs appropriately, it can be hard to find time to focus on other priorities. These pressing requirements can mean that the core asset, key to not only survival, but ultimately long-term growth post-crisis, is not forgotten: the brand.
Brian Rafferty
May 2020
Research
How to not forget brand ROI and still focus on the essential in uncertain times
Our new normal is unavoidable: every day brings new questions and uncertainty given the COVID-19 epidemic. Between dealing with personal implications of social separation and approaching the immediate crisis communication needs appropriately, it can be hard to find time to focus on other priorities. These pressing requirements can mean that the core asset, key to not only survival, but ultimately long-term growth post-crisis, is not forgotten: the brand.
Brian Rafferty
May 2020