Marketing and Brand Research

Your brand is what you want people to believe about you.

We look at brands like strategic planners. Every brand has a unique DNA. Whether a new brand, a brand refresh or reinvention, or a new campaign to drive a growth strategy, we bring fresh eyes and an innovative set of quantitative and qualitative approaches.

For your brand to work, you need to know if your brand is:

  • Relevant: What is relevant about your brand to people, both functionally and emotionally?
  • Believable: What are people willing to believe about you today and tomorrow?
  • Unique: What can be unique about you in a competitive context?
  • Motivating: Of the attributes and associations that are believable, relevant and unique – which are the most motivating?

We answer these questions with a tailored brand model that is highly actionable. It isn’t good enough just to tell you what your brand represents to people. A great brand model helps you turn that into marketing strategy and maximize your spend by audience and channel to achieve better returns.

Latest Articles on Marketing and Brand Research:

October 16, 2026

Navigating Ontario’s Electricity Challenges: Support for Investment, but No Blank Cheque

On measure after measure, opinions regarding Ontario’s electricity sector are at all-time highs. Support has received a boost as Ontarians see the sector as a key bulwark in Canada’s defence against Donald Trump. The question is what happens after Donald Trump leaves, yet prices continue to rise? INNOVATIVE President Greg Lyle showed how attendees at the Ontario Energy Conference can make a difference now to prepare for that challenging future.

Latest Articles on Marketing and Brand Research:

October 16, 2026

Navigating Ontario’s Electricity Challenges: Support for Investment, but No Blank Cheque

On measure after measure, opinions regarding Ontario’s electricity sector are at all-time highs. Support has received a boost as Ontarians see the sector as a key bulwark in Canada’s defence against Donald Trump. The question is what happens after Donald Trump leaves, yet prices continue to rise? INNOVATIVE President Greg Lyle showed how attendees at the Ontario Energy Conference can make a difference now to prepare for that challenging future.