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57 insightful expert articles

Some thoughts deserve a deeper dive. How we think about brand strategy, identity and the business of building brands across the GCC, from bank rollouts to the texture of a telecom brand.

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Bank Brand Implementation: The Strategic Rollout Guide for GCC and MENA Banks

How GCC and MENA banks roll out a rebrand: eight disciplines, a practical rollout checklist and what to demand from your agency.

ContentCorporate
Key visual for Khaleeji Bank, Bahrain. Created by Unisono. brand agency for banks, rebranding agency GCC, branding agency, Middle East, west asia, rebrand, transformation, GCC, MENA, Sharia, bilingual Arabic, stakeholder, alignment, C-suite, facilitation, workshops, strategy, research. Unisono, Award Winning International Strategic Creative Design Agency. Graphics, Brand, Identity, Naming, Guidelines, Visual, Logo, Tone of Voice,, London, UK, Manama, Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Riyadh, Saudi, Arabia, KSA, Kuwait, Doha, Qatar, Yemen.

How to Choose a Branding Agency for a Bank

A practical buyer's guide for bank marketing leaders in the GCC and MENA, covering what to demand of the brand agency you appoint.

FinanceStrategy
A man relaxing in an Eames lounge chair with reading a newspaper and smoking a pipe.

Eight : Ten touchpoints, three brands, one honest afternoon

The final part of our eight-part telecom series: ten touchpoints, three brands and an honest look at where brand texture is won or lost.

StrategyTelecom
Coco Chanel, a legendary French fashion designer

Seven : Three years to build it, one appointment to lose it

Part seven of our telecom series: why brand trust takes years to build and how a single poor store appointment can undo it overnight.

StrategyTelecom
Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian philosopher

Six : Your store is not a payment facility

Part six of our telecom series: why your retail store should be a brand experience and not simply somewhere customers go to pay bills.

StrategyTelecom
Steve Jobs, the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.

Five : Whose brand experience is your customer actually having?

Part five of our telecom series: the brand experience your customer actually has is often shaped by partners, agents and third parties.

StrategyTelecom
A person sitting on a weathered wooden bench beside a calm waterfront.

Four : Free… and better than free

Part four of our telecom series: how the things you give away free can add more brand texture than almost anything customers pay for.

StrategyTelecom
Maya Angelou, the memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist

Three : ‘Proof’ is a promise you can feel

Part three of our telecom series: why real proof beats claims and how tangible evidence turns a brand promise into something felt.

StrategyTelecom
A pizza maker tossing a ball of pizza dough into the air.

Two : Pizza Express has it. Yahoo has almost none.

Part two of our telecom series: what Pizza Express gets right about brand texture, why Yahoo lost it and what telecom brands can learn.

StrategyTelecom
A vintage black rotary dial telephone

One : Nobody ever kept the SIM packaging

Part one of our eight-part telecom series: why nobody keeps the SIM packaging and how brand texture builds deeper connections.

StrategyTelecom
Steve Jobs, the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.

How Can an Award Winning Branding Agency Help Business Thrive?

How working with an award-winning branding agency can help your business move from simply surviving to genuinely thriving.

CorporateStrategy
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