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March 18, 2014 Five Ways To Make Advertising Work Harder For Your Challenger Brand

Unless your company dominates its category, it’s a challenger brand. It may or may not be a strong challenger brand, and the difference often comes…

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May 21, 2012 Revolution As Challenger Brand

Four Lessons From the Egyptian Revolution Cultural barriers and physical distance too often reduce events like the Egyptian Revolution to abstractions for us, but there…

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July 8, 2011 Why Is It So Challenging To Be A Challenger Brand?

By definition, challenger brands work against the grain. They run a reverse on convention, making moves that are absolutely inconsistent with category norms and expected…

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April 28, 2011 Challenger Brands Of A Feather, Flock Together

Ever wonder if your company is a challenger brand? There are lots of ways to tell for sure, but here’s one great measure. Take a…

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April 6, 2011 Challenger Brands Have To Finish

Quick – name the only NCAA Men’s basketball team from Indiana to ever make it to back to back Final Fours. Larry Bird’s Indiana State…

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October 26, 2009 Challenger Brand Rule No. 1: Change Something

I’m a lifelong motocross fan, so imagine my delight whenYamaha served up a supreme example of challenger brand innovation with its all-new YZ450 for 2010.…

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May 30, 2007 Cocaine: A Lesson in Challenger Branding

I’m not a big fan of Cocaine, but I respect the bold marketing strategy behind it. And the distribution is impressive, too. I was stunned…

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October 22, 2025 LOOMIS WINS 4X THE PLATINUM AT MUSE CREATIVE AWARDS

LOOMIS received multiple nods from the Muse Creative Awards for work developed on behalf of clients Golden Chick and Dairy Queen.

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October 13, 2025 Be Yourself. Every Other Restaurant Is Already Taken.

The most successful restaurant brands lean into challenger branding, creating a clear and defensible position in the marketplace.

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October 3, 2025 LOOMIS Agency Serves Up New Campaign for The Ultimate Texas Collaboration

LOOMIS launches the Dr Pepper BBQ Patty Melt — a first-of-its-kind collab between two of Texas’ most iconic brands: DQ® and Dr Pepper®

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