Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION I: BRAND THEORY REVISITED
1 Challenges to the Old Model of Branding
1.1 From Ad Idea to Media-Neutral Idea
1.2 The Old School
1.3 Protestant vs Catholic: The Battle for Brand Theory
Summary of Chapter 1
2 A New Theory of Branding
2.1 What Is a Brand?
2.2 Brand as Strategic Cultural Idea
2.3 Brand as a Cluster of Cultural Ideas
2.4 The Brand Innovation Imperative
2.5 Hybrid Vigour: Brand Partnerships, Feuds, Leaps and Properties
2.6 The Equivalence of Brand Creation and Brand Communication
2.7 A Shift from Targeting an Audience to Adoption
2.8 Establishing New Lifestyles
Summary of Chapter 2
3 The Trouble with Trends
3.1 The Difference between Cultural Trends and STEPs
3.2 Real Trends
3.3 Made-up Trends
Summary of Chapter 3
4 Strategy: Finding a Cultural Logic
4.1 Problem Finding
4.2 Finding a Third Way
4.3 A Bigger Context or Market
4.4 Outside-In Thinking
4.5 Brand Archaeology
4.6 Brand Renaissance
4.7 What Is the Other Side of the Story?
4.8 Strategy as Scripting
4.9 What Is Lacking?
4.10 The Cultural RNA
4.11 What Are We Here to Do?
4.12 Busting the Tradeoff in Your Market
4.13 Model a Distant Parallel
4.14 Information Saturation
4.15 Deconstruction, Reconstruction
4.16 Demolish the “Ad in Your Head”
4.17 Rekindle Your Curiosity
4.18 Bringing the Strategy to a Point of Focus
Summary of Chapter 4
SECTION II: A TYPOLOGY OF BRAND IDEAS
Building Your Molecule: 32 Brand Elements
Chapter Strcture
A Periodic Table for Brand Ideas
1 New Traditions
1A Habit Ideas
1B Spectacular Ideas
1C Leadership Ideas
1D Organisation Ideas
2 Belief Systems
2A Cognitive Ideas
2B Appreciation Ideas
2C Faith Ideas
2D Atlas Ideas
3 Time
3A Regressive Ideas
3B Now Ideas
3C Nostalgia Ideas
3D Calendar Ideas
4 Herd Instincts
4A Initiation Ideas
4B Crowd Ideas
4C Clan Ideas
4D Craze Ideas
5 Connecting
5A Co-authored Ideas
5B Socialising Ideas
5C Cooperative Ideas
5D Localised Ideas
6 Luxury
6A Concierge Ideas
6B Plenty Ideas
6C Exclusive Ideas
6D Exotic Ideas
7 Provocative
7A Erotic Ideas
7B Cathartic Ideas
7C Scandal Ideas
7D Radical Ideas
8 Control
8A Personalised Ideas
8B In-Control Ideas
8C Competition Ideas
8D Grading Ideas
SECTION III: DEVELOPING BRAND STRATEGIES
Developing New Brand Ideas in Practice
Organised Chaos vs Corporate Constipation
Using the 32 Cultural Ideas: Reframing
Example: Let’s Kill Lynx
Logical Conclusions
References
Index