Dipanjan Chatterjee

2020 was a year of crises. In this most difficult of years, six brands stood out. See our picks for the best brands of the year.

Your brand is on the hook to respond to a social justice movement sweeping the world. This is how you get started responding.

A poor promise will starve a great experience, and a poor experience will break a great promise. The Power Of Marketing Marketing has always been a substantial and thriving component of brand-building. For example, annual global advertising spend has grown from about $400 billion in 2019 to just shy of $600 billion in 2019 (equivalent […]

My research theme for CX North America 2020 — the convergence of experience The peripatetic nature of analyst life, especially for someone not moored to a corporate office, means that I rarely get to see most of the folks I work with, which is why, every year, I look forward to the summer days of […]

Brands Pledge To Stand With The Black Community In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, citizens are taking to the streets to protest institutionalized racism. Brands are speaking out, too, because, as Netflix tweeted, “To be silent is to be complicit.” Netflix joins brands such as Google, Nike, Peloton, and Target (whose stores were looted) in taking a vocal anti-racist stance. Firms hear consumers’ desire to align with brands that share their values and are emboldened to make […]

The crisis in financial services is not just that most banks don’t get relevance and relationship right. It’s that most of the leading consumer brands eyeing the financial space do.

Don’t Read This Before Dinner There are some things that can’t be unseen. Chief among them, a Whopper decomposing in high definition to demonstrate that Burger King plans to remove artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives from the burger. Industry pundits are all abuzz with opinion (ahem!), and Burger King is the toast of media town, posed for ad award glory. But will it help Burger King sell more burgers? So far, Burger […]

Three brands that shined and three that lost some luster in 2019, along with what to look for in 2020.

Embracing gender evolution; hyperscale cloud emerging tech partnerships; healthcare innovation award winners.

Nike Just Does It First, the age of the customer shifted power away from institutions to individuals, drastically reducing the control companies had over their own brands. Then came Amazon: The competitive juggernaut ripped whatever shred of control brands had left, leaving them to figure out the algorithmic enigma of eCommerce while competing on price […]

By Silencing Hackers With NDAs, Uber Could Legitimize Ransom Attacks As A Business Despite a half-billion-dollar marketing campaign last year to rebuild Uber’s image, the ride-sharing giant’s reputation problem just keeps getting worse. On Wednesday, two of the (now known to be) three hackers responsible for the 2016 breach and ransom of 57 million riders’ […]

The California Attorney General just Published CCPA rules, and they're clear as mud.

Apple’s 2019 Event: What’s Missing Is What’s Telling — Branding When Apple cuts prices, you know there’s a problem. A price premium signals brand strength; any contraction is a cause for concern. Yes, Apple’s decisions to start monetizing services is a good strategy, but is it enough? It comes straight out of every management consulting […]

Le Tote Buys Lord & Taylor — A Most Peculiar Way To Buy Growth Fashion subscription company Le Tote agreed to acquire the storied (if tired) department store Lord & Taylor. We have several questions. For starters, the price. Le Tote, a popular yet relatively nascent rental company, has raised $62.5 million in venture capital […]

An Oklahoma court ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $571M for involvement in “false, misleading, and dangerous marketing campaigns” that contributed to the state’s opioid crisis. Here’s both a risk and brand perspective on why business leaders should care. J&J Shares Recover — But Its Reputation May Not Our Security & Risk Analysts Alla Valente […]

The Great Gender Blur And Its Impact On The Future Of Marketing Marketing stands at the threshold of a monumental cultural shift — the great gender blur. The male-female binary and all its associated tropes that have pervaded brand marketing for decades are on shaky ground. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the UK’s independent advertising […]

Are Maps For Self-Driving Cars A Public Good? A public/private organization in the UK thinks so. Zenzic, a UK government and industry self-driving vehicle organization, believes that the country needs a standard map for all self-driving cars, not a different map encoded in each car manufacturer’s machine. The battle for “HD maps,” which purport to […]

Brand plays a significant role in whether a customer buys your product. It’s part of your firm’s financial value. Learn how to calculate the value of a brand.

The Journey From Energy To Experience In the summer of 2017, I, along with my Forrester colleagues, wrote up the results of our year-long endeavor to build an analytically sophisticated, data-driven framework for emotion-led branding. In my report entitled “Emotions Fuel Your Brand Energy,” I outlined three components of a brand’s “energy” and its ability […]