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The Definitive Brander's Guide to M&A covers the five dimensions of brand that shape deal outcomes, a full KPI framework across every stakeholder audience and lessons from landmark transactions.

Siegel+Gale

Insights

The definitive brander’s guide to M&A

The Definitive Brander's Guide to M&A covers the five dimensions of brand that shape deal outcomes, a full KPI framework across every stakeholder audience and lessons from landmark transactions.

Siegel+Gale

We sat down with Marc and Ben to explore where the practice stands today, the dangers of overconfidence in AI outputs and why nothing beats actually talking to your customers.

Marc Desmond + Ben Osborne

Insights

The future of research is built on hybrid intelligence

We sat down with Marc and Ben to explore where the practice stands today, the dangers of overconfidence in AI outputs and why nothing beats actually talking to your customers.

Marc Desmond + Ben Osborne

With the release of "Jerry West: The Logo," we find ourselves reflecting on one of Siegel+Gale's most enduring pieces of work.

Siegel+Gale

Insights

Slam dunk: The logo that defined a league

With the release of "Jerry West: The Logo," we find ourselves reflecting on one of Siegel+Gale's most enduring pieces of work.

Siegel+Gale

Sit in any brand strategy session right now, and you’ll hear a version of the same conversation: AI can help us do more with less, but it’s a threat to … Continued

Katie Conway

AI

AI won’t save your brand. Clarity will.

Sit in any brand strategy session right now, and you’ll hear a version of the same conversation: AI can help us do more with less, but it’s a threat to … Continued

Katie Conway

If your brand cannot be understood clearly by an algorithm, it will not be chosen confidently by a human.

Patrick Kampff

News

Clarity is the last unfair advantage

If your brand cannot be understood clearly by an algorithm, it will not be chosen confidently by a human.

Patrick Kampff

93% of marketers are investing in AI. Only 25% are seeing results. Here's why: AI isn't a shortcut to strategy.

Siegel+Gale

AI

Reality Check: Building the new infrastructure of influence

93% of marketers are investing in AI. Only 25% are seeing results. Here's why: AI isn't a shortcut to strategy.

Siegel+Gale

Most CMOs approach AI as a technology problem to solve but it's actually a brand strategy problem. And the brands that treat it that way will have a significant competitive advantage over those that don’t.

Jason Cieslak

AI

Stop building better tech. Build a better brand.

Most CMOs approach AI as a technology problem to solve but it's actually a brand strategy problem. And the brands that treat it that way will have a significant competitive advantage over those that don’t.

Jason Cieslak

Philip Davies explains how, in complex environments like airports, simplicity comes not from removing information, but from designing systems that make the right signals instantly recognizable.

Philip Davies

Insights

Can your brand pass the airport test?

Philip Davies explains how, in complex environments like airports, simplicity comes not from removing information, but from designing systems that make the right signals instantly recognizable.

Philip Davies

For decades, Gen X has been treated like the Jan Brady of generations. Then AI showed up, and for a hot minute, it felt like we were about to become latchkey kids forever. But it turns out we’re not the ones getting replaced. 

Pat Attenasio

AI

AI is the moment Gen X has been training for

For decades, Gen X has been treated like the Jan Brady of generations. Then AI showed up, and for a hot minute, it felt like we were about to become latchkey kids forever. But it turns out we’re not the ones getting replaced. 

Pat Attenasio

Spin-offs are some of the hardest brand work we do. Not because the mechanics are complicated when one company becomes two. But because spin-offs force you to build a brand identity from nothing.

Jason Cieslak

M&A / Spin-off

The five brand realities that make spin-offs so complex

Spin-offs are some of the hardest brand work we do. Not because the mechanics are complicated when one company becomes two. But because spin-offs force you to build a brand identity from nothing.

Jason Cieslak