Place Branding

08 Dec 2016
Place Branding | 1 min read

Speech on Place Branding with Ken Livingstone, at Almaty Invest 2016, Kazakhstan. 

Gave a keynote speech today on Place Branding & Marketing at the A...

23 Nov 2016
Place Branding | 19 min read

Place Branding: Stockholm The Capital of Scandinavia Ten Years On

Stockholm the Capital of Scandinavia has now been in place as a market...

06 Jun 2016
Place Branding | 2 min read

‘So why are you called UP THERE, EVERYWHERE?’

It's a question that gets asked a lot. We do have a name that sort of ...

17 Nov 2015

Place branding podcast focuses on Boston, the inbound revolution and iconic landmarks

In the third episode of Wish You Were Here: The Place Branding Podcast...

14 Oct 2015

Place branding podcast focuses on New York

Episode 2 of the The Place Branding Podcast: Wish You Were Here featur...

05 Mar 2015
Place Branding UP FOR REAL | 13 min read

TED Talk: Greece and the "C" word

Greece. So what’s the first thing that springs to mind? Well, unfortun...

04 Dec 2014
Place Branding | 2 min read

Place Branding: Roffa Rising

Years ago I used to work on the Beefeater Gin business in the UK. It's...

23 Nov 2014

A Case for Place Branding in Cardiff, Wales

Cardiff? Definitely not Lagom. I've lived in Sweden a good few years n...

11 Oct 2014

3 Lessons in Place Branding Excellence

I was recently fortunate enough to one of the judges on the PlaceBrand...

23 Jun 2014

Logos in place branding: Gimmicks or Social Change-makers?

The place branding community is constantly arguing about the value of ...

11 Feb 2014

Place Branding: The $50 Billion Dollar Gold Medal

I don’t watch much television. Firstly it’s mostly filled with rubbish...

30 Jan 2014

Hollywoodland. Putting Tinsel Town on the Map with Place Branding

Maybe it’s because I’m a total classic film nut, but for me one of the...

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