An increase in brand building activity is required to make local vehicle manufacturing viable in Kenya.
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The IAAF youth championships offers an opportunity to promote Nairobi
As Kenya hosts the IAAF youth championships in July 2017, there are opportunities to boost the countries image.
Creating resonating local content leads to brand growth
Local content goes a long way to developing strong engagement among consumers and Habesha Cold Gold captures the hearts and minds of their target audience.
Market disrupters in the financial sector – there’s an app for that
The launch of CBA Loop signifies a leap change in banking sector disruption focused on millennial entrepreneurs.
True brand building is needed to win a price war
Bold advertising builds brands that can withstand price wars and it takes a single minded approach to create great campaigns.
Celebrity endorsements are costly but with good return-on-investment
One of the things about highly competitive market segments is that brands tend to use the concept of ‘monkey see, monkey do’, in that they follow similar strategies for visibility, brand appeal and sales. The incremental one percent in advertising share doesn’t shift the needle even though it represents a substantial investment. To drive differentiation, […]
Branding a multicultural organization depends on universal truths
During the ‘cola wars’ between Coke & Pepsi in the eighties, Pepsi launched a campaign dubbed ‘the choice of a new generation’. Unfortunately when translated to Chinese the same campaign tagline said ‘bring your ancestors back from the dead with Pepsi’. History is full of stories that highlight the challenges international brands face when creating […]
Sports personalities can have economic and social influence
Kenyans are known for many things, yet one attribute that particularly stands out is the natural talent we possess for long distance running and our ability to bag all the available international marathon top prizes. After every win, our sports stars get the prerequisite headlines in the sports segments of the news. Occasionally they may […]
Brand ambassadors need more than words to promote Nairobi
Congratulations to you because your city has been ranked the third best city to visit in 2017 by the British travel publisher Rough Guides. Coming after Paris, France and Isfahan, Iran, the report mentions our greatly endangered Nairobi National Park as one of the major sights that travelers need to visit, and to be sarcastic, […]
Good news for advertisers in the internet penetration numbers
Common wisdom states that in the average WhatsApp group 1 out of every 5 people is a joker, which is a relatively high proportion because even a deck of cards has only 2 jokers in a pack of 54. Our interests are however around the number of influencers in each WhatsApp group and their power […]
