Micro-Experiences > Big Events Tobias Dahlberg September 20, 2025 – 2 min read Share this post u1492637478_flash_dance_in_the_original_sense_of_the_word_--c_350f7750-1403-425c-bf4f-b0c580e158d2_3 Branding Culture-First Branding: Join, Don’t Invent In Brief Culture is no longer a backdrop — it’s the battlefield. The signal: the most resonant brands aren’t creating culture, they’re participating in it. The deeper truth? Audiences no longer reward invention, they reward fluency. The shift is from “brand as creator” to “brand as collaborator.” The By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read Culture Multi-Generational Households By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read Marketing The Psychology Of Trust In 2026 Trust used to be simple: a familiar logo, a tagline, maybe a celebrity endorsement. In 2026, it’s more fragile — and more valuable — than ever. Consumers swipe past hundreds of brands a day, algorithms curate their choices, and scandals go viral in minutes. The psychology of trust has shifted from By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read Signals The GLP-1 Consumer Is Rewriting the Value of Every Bite The GLP-1 Consumer Is Rewriting the Value of Every Bite By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read Intelligence AI Is Becoming the First Sales Meeting In Brief For decades, the buying journey began with a search engine, a sales representative or a recommendation from a colleague. Increasingly, it begins with an AI. Whether using ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google’s AI Mode, Perplexity or enterprise AI assistants, buyers are asking machines to summarise markets, shortlist suppliers, By Tobias Dahlberg • 5 min read Journal Why Your Growth Strategy Is (Likely) Built on Outdated Assumptions Every growth strategy contains a hidden set of assumptions. But are they true? By Tobias Dahlberg • 9 min read brand strategy The Cost of Choice Confusion Many companies think they have an awareness problem. "If only more people knew about us". While this might be part of the problem, the underlying issue is a bigger one. They have a choice problem. The choice problem exists downstream from the awareness problem. Potential customers know they By Tobias Dahlberg • 3 min read Strategy Differentiation Is the Wrong Target In Brief: Thirty years of brand strategy has been optimising for the wrong thing. The goal was never to be different. It was to be chosen. To be chosen, a brand does not need to be the most different. It needs to be the most relevant. Those are not the By Tobias Dahlberg • 5 min read Strategy Positioning Strength: The Measure Of Choice. In Brief: Most companies have a positioning strategy. Very few have a market position. The gap between the two is where growth quietly disappears. Somewhere in your organisation there is a document that describes your positioning. It was probably developed carefully and expensively. Lots of workshops, debate, tasting of words, By Tobias Dahlberg • 3 min read
u1492637478_flash_dance_in_the_original_sense_of_the_word_--c_350f7750-1403-425c-bf4f-b0c580e158d2_3 Branding Culture-First Branding: Join, Don’t Invent In Brief Culture is no longer a backdrop — it’s the battlefield. The signal: the most resonant brands aren’t creating culture, they’re participating in it. The deeper truth? Audiences no longer reward invention, they reward fluency. The shift is from “brand as creator” to “brand as collaborator.” The By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read
Marketing The Psychology Of Trust In 2026 Trust used to be simple: a familiar logo, a tagline, maybe a celebrity endorsement. In 2026, it’s more fragile — and more valuable — than ever. Consumers swipe past hundreds of brands a day, algorithms curate their choices, and scandals go viral in minutes. The psychology of trust has shifted from By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read
Signals The GLP-1 Consumer Is Rewriting the Value of Every Bite The GLP-1 Consumer Is Rewriting the Value of Every Bite By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read
Intelligence AI Is Becoming the First Sales Meeting In Brief For decades, the buying journey began with a search engine, a sales representative or a recommendation from a colleague. Increasingly, it begins with an AI. Whether using ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google’s AI Mode, Perplexity or enterprise AI assistants, buyers are asking machines to summarise markets, shortlist suppliers, By Tobias Dahlberg • 5 min read
Journal Why Your Growth Strategy Is (Likely) Built on Outdated Assumptions Every growth strategy contains a hidden set of assumptions. But are they true? By Tobias Dahlberg • 9 min read
brand strategy The Cost of Choice Confusion Many companies think they have an awareness problem. "If only more people knew about us". While this might be part of the problem, the underlying issue is a bigger one. They have a choice problem. The choice problem exists downstream from the awareness problem. Potential customers know they By Tobias Dahlberg • 3 min read
Strategy Differentiation Is the Wrong Target In Brief: Thirty years of brand strategy has been optimising for the wrong thing. The goal was never to be different. It was to be chosen. To be chosen, a brand does not need to be the most different. It needs to be the most relevant. Those are not the By Tobias Dahlberg • 5 min read
Strategy Positioning Strength: The Measure Of Choice. In Brief: Most companies have a positioning strategy. Very few have a market position. The gap between the two is where growth quietly disappears. Somewhere in your organisation there is a document that describes your positioning. It was probably developed carefully and expensively. Lots of workshops, debate, tasting of words, By Tobias Dahlberg • 3 min read
