Brand strategy and digital opinion articles

Our brand and digital opinion articles span brand and digital strategy, rebranding, brand naming, brand repositioning, branding, website design and digital transformation.

In recent years we have focused on helping our clients build more and more sustainable brands in energy transition, smart mobility, waste recovery and smart climate all aiming to become more and more circular in their journeys to net zero by 2050 or before. 

Our analysis includes energy transition, hospitality, banking and financial services, wealth management, retail and luxury, mostly written by our founder and brand expert Peter Matthews, who has recently been intrigued by Elon Musk's hamfisted rebranding of Twitter...



Rebranding – 2 Golden Rules apply
04 September 2024
Opinion

Rebranding – 2 Golden Rules apply

Brands must verify their green claims
05 April 2023
Opinion

Brands must verify their green claims

Brand trust; is Twitter losing it?
24 November 2022
Opinion

Brand trust; is Twitter losing it?

Imperfect circularity - the best we can hope for?
07 November 2022
Opinion

Imperfect circularity - the best we can hope for?

What is sustainable branding?
27 May 2022
Opinion

What is sustainable branding?

How to trash a brand
22 March 2022
Opinion

How to trash a brand

Rebranding; change before you have to change
15 March 2022
Opinion

Rebranding; change before you have to change

Branding by numbers
22 February 2022
Opinion

Branding by numbers

The future of luxury; where to in 2022?
03 February 2022
Opinion

The future of luxury; where to in 2022?

The search for wellbeing; trends for 2022
14 January 2022
Opinion

The search for wellbeing; trends for 2022

What’s in a name?
04 November 2021
Opinion

What’s in a name?

Luxury should last forever
22 April 2021
Opinion

Luxury should last forever

Thumbs up for “Global Britain”?
17 March 2021
Opinion

Thumbs up for “Global Britain”?

Green branding; pure green, or dirty green?
25 November 2020
Opinion

Green branding; pure green, or dirty green?

Slogans, straplines and collective forbearance
01 October 2020
Opinion

Slogans, straplines and collective forbearance

Life after lockdown;<br/>Wealth management brands
16 September 2020
Opinion

Life after lockdown;
Wealth management brands

Life after lockdown;<br/>Brands that defy economic fallout
31 July 2020
Opinion

Life after lockdown;
Brands that defy economic fallout

Life after lockdown;<br/>21st Century Renaissance?
20 July 2020
Opinion

Life after lockdown;
21st Century Renaissance?

Life after lockdown;<br/>Banking brands
15 June 2020
Opinion

Life after lockdown;
Banking brands

Slogans, straplines and the need for clarity
11 May 2020
Opinion

Slogans, straplines and the need for clarity

Life after lockdown;<br/>Travel brands
30 April 2020
Opinion

Life after lockdown;
Travel brands

Cry God for Prince Harry, England and the Royal brand (part II)
21 January 2020
Opinion

Cry God for Prince Harry, England and the Royal brand (part II)

Brand protection and Brexit
29 October 2019
Opinion

Brand protection and Brexit

Privacy is a strategic business issue
04 September 2019
Opinion

Privacy is a strategic business issue

Why brand repositioning is hard
08 July 2019
Opinion

Why brand repositioning is hard

Beyond the data-by-stealth model
07 March 2019
Opinion

Beyond the data-by-stealth model

Professionals must join the digital revolution
06 August 2018
Opinion

Professionals must join the digital revolution

Adtech’s existential crisis
28 March 2018
Opinion

Adtech’s existential crisis

We now live in a world where the unthinkable is not only thinkable, it’s palpable
16 June 2016
Opinion

We now live in a world where the unthinkable is not only thinkable, it’s palpable

Brand name contagion – when a new car launch catches a virus
02 February 2016
Opinion

Brand name contagion – when a new car launch catches a virus

Brand expert commentator

Peter Matthews, Nucleus founder and CEO explores brand strategy, brand naming and digital trends in this wide ranging series of opinion pieces drawing on 40 years experience in brand consulting and 25 years in digital, having been in the vanguard of the digital transformation of brands and now a brand advocate for sustainability and the circular economy.

He has also founded several digital ventures which he now chairs.



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