GoDaddy has kicked off 2020 with a new logo and a rebrand.

Bringing a community-driven, consumer lens to rebranding has seen B2B professional services firm, Kearney, crowdsource more than 10,000 images of staff and customers for its creative approach.

Think of apple juice and you usually think of the sweetened juice made from a concentrate, so sugary it makes you wince. Once tried, this type of juice tends to ruin apple juice for people for life.

As a young girl, Joanne Katsos would marvel at the strength of the timbersports competitors at the Royal Melbourne Show as they chopped and sawed their way to glory. Little did she know that as an adult she would find herself in the role of marketing director for the Australian operations of an organisation that is one of the world’s key supporters of timbersports.

​Change, disruption, uncertainty and engagement on the customer’s terms – looking at this year’s list of most-read stories on CMO, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d actively sought out these topics as areas to focus on. Yet it’s clear the transformation of marketing from broadcast to two-way engagement, thanks to the ongoing disruptive impact of digital and connectivity, has continued to dominate marketing industry discussions and thinking in 2019.

With more than 3000 people dying as a result of sleep-related issues each year, it’s clear Australia’s sleep health needs to be put in the spotlight. And that’s exactly what ResMed hopes to do with a rebrand, omni-channel investment plan and its largest marketing campaign to date.

In challenging economic times, brands need to look to the premium end of the market to find growth, according to the Roy Morgan Research Institute.

Commonwealth Bank has brought on Optus former brand manager, Dianne Everett, as its new general manager of brand.

The Australian Government’s carbon neutral certification has recently been renamed, rebranded and relaunched as 'Climate Active', all with the aim of becoming the ‘Heart Foundation tick’ of climate action.

Building a brand from a blank sheet of paper can be a difficult ask, especially when the product you are selling is mostly made from blank sheets of paper.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking eyewear retailer, Oscar Wylee, to court for alleged misleading or deceptive conduct that strikes at the heart of the brand’s proclaimed purpose and mission.

In February this year, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority banned two television commercials. While far from being the first ads to ever be banned, they were the first found to violate new rules prohibiting the depiction of men and women in gender-stereotypical activities.

The seductive appeal of short-termism is "very acute" in the fast moving consumer goods space, according to Peter Field and Les Binet, two of the most influential marketing commentators in the world. And it shouldn't be.

V Energy has launched a new brand platform in Australia and New Zealand with a pitch to Gen Z and younger Millennials to escape the ‘Procrastination Place’ to counter the era of living in the most distracting time in history.

​Mention the name Broadcast Australia, and many won’t know what you’re talking about. And yet, the infrastructure provider connects people across Australia and around the world, and has played a vital role in our current bushfire crisis.

Knowing consumers intimately, leaning in to brand ‘superpowers’ and digital capability, and disrupting from within have helped digital beauty retailer, e.l.f, buck category sales decline and chalk up 13 percentage point growth this year.

Konica Minolta has formed a global digital experience marketing council and launched its first-ever worldwide branding campaign as part of large-scale efforts to transform the business from print and camera provider to innovative ICT solutions player.

Val Morgan has launched a raft of new initiatives for it advertisers, including a new brand positioning, a digital publishing platform, and programmatic out-of-home (OOH) advertising.

While many organisations still consider culture an afterthought, savvy organisations increasingly know culture can make or break commercial success.

​Getting some pork on your fork just got a bit easier thanks to a new ready-to-eat roast pork offering from Riverina-based producer, Riverview Farms. The Riverview Farms Pork Roast with Crackle product is sold cooked, hot and ready to eat, much like the hot chickens many consumers buy each week. And it’s all part of a highly organised approach to brand marketing for the food brand.

Building a unifying brand narrative positioning Event Cinemas as an experience-led entertainment offering of choice has seen the company overhaul its brand identity and strategy.