Tom Morris

Tom Morris

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Photograph of a single brightly coloured, trend-styled beauty product standing out as the hero on a plain mass-retail shelf surrounded by muted, ordinary packaged goods, suggesting a viral online brand newly arrived in mass retail where it does not yet belong.

 • 19 Jun 2026

The Shelf Test: When Viral Brands Meet Mass Retail

A brand built on algorithmic discovery and novelty has just landed on a mass-market shelf. Whether its equity survives the move is a Read More

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Over-the-shoulder photograph of a person holding a smartphone where an AI assistant, asked which coffee machine to buy, recommends one option over several alternatives, suggesting brand choice now forms inside an AI answer the customer never leaves.

 • 12 Jun 2026

When AI Answers First: Brand Choice in the Zero-Click Era

A growing share of brand consideration now forms inside an AI answer the customer never leaves. The teams optimising for clicks are Read More

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Photograph of a shopper's hand reaching for an amber jar labelled with a gold kangaroo and the words 'Made in Australia', priced at $24.99 beside a similar product, suggesting the price a credible country-of-origin signal can command at the point of choice.

 • 5 Jun 2026

Provenance Premium: Pricing Country-of-Origin Trust

Where a product comes from can earn a brand consideration and price it would not otherwise command. Most trackers record the sentiment Read More

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Photograph of a branding iron searing the word 'Name' in glowing molten letters into dark leather, with orange dollar signs rising in the smoke above it, suggesting a brand name carries real, measurable commercial value of its own.

 • 29 May 2026

Brand Name Equity: What Zip Paid to Keep a Word

When a brand name is a load-bearing commercial asset, the cost of losing it can exceed the cost of buying it back. Zip just proved the Read More

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Mid-elevated photograph of a supermarket trolley split visually into two halves, with branded grocery products on one side and stark white-label private-label equivalents on the other, and a shopper's hand hovering mid-decision between the two, suggesting trade-down behaviour at the moment of category choice.

 • 22 May 2026

Trade-Down Patterns: The Mechanism Most Trackers Miss

Cost-of-living pressure does not just reduce category spend. It restructures it. Most brand trackers report the result and miss the Read More

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Photograph of a boardroom table showing four stacked quarterly tracker reports beside a single, larger annual brand health report opened to a synthesis page with a brand-driver chart, suggesting the annual report is structurally different from a longer quarterly report.

 • 15 May 2026

What an Annual Brand Health Report Should Actually Answer

The annual reporting moment is the only window where a marketing team can credibly move from operational tracking to strategic Read More

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