Arenas
Culture evolves, customer expectations shift. The most significant competitive threats and challenges will increasingly come from beyond categories.
When life seems to be getting harder for everybody, have brands permission to help?
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Can the world’s biggest brands survive the web’s next big evolution?
Connect is both the lifeblood of capitalism, and its most volatile competitive field. In this Arena, the mightiest of brands compete – in a state of near permanent transformation – to be the primary point of connection between people, between things, and between people and things.
Which Arenas Could Your Brand Play In?
Best Global Brands, like Apple, offer us a masterclass in sustaining relevance and growth by moving seamlessly across arenas to drive growth.
Proximity.
Presence.
The pandemic changed our interaction with the world around us and, in the Move Arena, decisions have become less about “how I get to people, goods, services, and experiences”, and more about “how people, goods, services and experiences get to me” with profound implications for brands in this space. From declining High Streets to remote working, the shifts we observe are registered as much in culture, way of life and livelihood, as they are on the NASDAQ.
Introducing the Express Arena
Today’s products, experiences and brands are cultural artefacts that give insight into our social, commercial and industrial lives. They tell stories of affiliation and rebellion. Of provenance and advancement. The value of these contemporary totems is driven not simply by what they are, but by what they express.
Gamers, streamers, fans and dreamers.
Play helps us connect. To my self. To others. To ground us in who we really are. And lift us up to where we can go, together. While we can, of course, connect in lots of different ways, we can’t Play without connecting…to our imagination; with others; to the physical objects around us; with something bigger than ourselves. Connection helps explain why gaming has taken off…and a lack of connection helps explain why baseball is falling further into a time past. Connection is the need that could be better met.
$7.1 trillion
Estimated total Play Arena value
3,242,616,000 hours
Daily hours spent on play by Americans every day.
