Brand Communications
Crafting your brand story shouldn’t be painful. At The Sound, we’ll guide you through each step of brand communication development to create impactful work.
Crafting your brand story shouldn’t be painful. At The Sound, we’ll guide you through each step of brand communication development to create impactful work.
We leverage a range of human-centered positioning and value prop frameworks and tools to help brands establish an ownable POD and carve out meaningful differentiation in the marketplace.
Using a combination of convergent and divergent thinking, we drive teams to consensus building and decision making in a consolidated time frame.
Read MoreGetting the right message to the right people at the right time is every Brands strategic nirvana. The Sound knows how to draw out and listen for nuance and insight that defines what a brand should say to whom and when.
Read MoreSome agencies ‘test’ ideas. We believe in using consumer research to optimize creative and communications to better delivery on your brand strategy.
Read MoreA fresh perspective feels good. Especially if the old perspective is holding you back. We start by getting to the heart of what people have always loved and then reimagine how that can play in a new cultural context.
Read MoreIn every category there are implicit and explicit codes and cues that shape how consumers mentally define the space. Understanding what the codes and cues mean is called semiotics and we like to employ the principles of this theory to understanding dynamics of a category.
Read MoreThe Sound often steps in to guide teams through a series of brand building exercises… taking the time to rigorously build equity elements for your brand.
Read MoreWe help brands find Purpose by looking at consumers, culture, the category, and the company; revealing inspiring reasons for a brand's being.
Read MoreHaving an entire portfolio of products in a single category requires clarity on each brands objective, target audience, and its role in their lives.
Read MoreWe believe in breaking down barriers between brands and the people who matter most to them.
We tirelessly dig deep to uncover what people really do and why they do it. And we deploy innovative methods to get as close as possible to people and their lives.
It's said you shouldn't have a favorite child. At The Sound we believe the same to be true of generations.
Read MoreThe uncanny ability to see patterns in larger cohorts of people, cultural shifts percolating on the edges and values that make a country tick.
Read MoreEmpathizing and understanding the walk from the beginning to the end of an experience helps a brand identify when and where it can resonate with people.
Read MoreHow a category communicates is the first step to understanding how your brand should think and behave.
Read MoreQuantitative data helps identify and define frameworks ideal for grouping people, motivations and behaviors.
Read More‘Job to Be Done’ aren't products or services, an occasion, task or activity. They're the motivations and one of the most powerful research tools for brand strategy and product innovation.
Read MoreWe believe that innovation emerges at the nexus of market and cultural opportunity and the problems people need solving. We imagine and design strategic ideas that inspire brands to find new possibilities with positive commercial impact.
At some point in every brands life… it needs an infusion of energy or ideas. Turning to a workshop setting is the perfect solution.
Read MoreBeing able to get a quantitative pulse check on a large set of product ideas is sometimes precisely the analysis you need.
Read MoreWe start with a brand's anchor today and then imagining its future. That can’t happen overnight so we map a plan from A to B with the imperatives you need to nail at each stage.
Read MoreWe love writing product concepts that don't suck. No seriously. It's fun to us! We've seen a lot so we know how to spot the good from the bad.
Read MoreWe don’t believe ‘if you build it they will come.’ We do believe the best innovation lives at the intersection of possibility and problems.
Read MoreWe understand the realities of the business world and know that time isn't always on our side. So when you need speed... we sprint.
Read MoreSometimes a brand wants a line of sight into the much farther out future. We use qualitative exploration and quantitative validation to add rigor.
Read MoreInsights and ideas are rarely revealed from behind a desk, so we hit the road when we want to glimpse the future.
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