Must Reads Newsletter 📧 - By Danny Denhard

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And not just for 💕 V day

Danny Denhard
Feb 14, 2020
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Happy Friday! Don’t worry this will be a V day free zone.

This week I have changed it up, it includes a free lesson and a new feature of the winner of the week and fail of the week.

—Brand Lesson—
Brandless closed its doors this week, there were many Brand and Marketing leads (and a few vocal GM’s across LinkedIn & Twitter) with opinions that Brandless wasn’t a brand and how they didn’t market itself, here’s the thing; brandless whole play was a low priced utility (frequently used brand, purchased many times), going under the guise of being “brandless” - that was its brand play. Yes it might not have been successful but like Uber, WeWork, Theranos etc, learn that brand is so much more than you think it is.

Itv2 GIF by Love Island

My meeting and leadership blog posts have been popular when I have shared, here is the HBR flowchart to help you decide if you need a meeting

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👏 The 5 Must-Reads You Might Not Have Seen This Week

  1. 💯 Why Spotify is going to be more than just a music app 💯

  2. 👩‍🚀 An Astronaut’s Guide to Mental Models

  3. 💭 How brands are now sliding into your inboxes
    With 96% open rate and 40% CTR, there is no wonder businesses wanted to be more friendly

  4. 🧪 The science and secrets behind how in-flight meals are selected and prepared

  5. 💕 Why Meeting Another’s Gaze Is so Powerful

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😍 The Must-Reads Of The Week 😍

  • 💳 Are Challenger banks ready for the exit? N26 exited Britain this week, with expected consolidation to come the market might just get slimmer.

  • ⚽️ How to make it at a top football club

  • 🛍 Why the cold war was over supermarket not weapons
    Dave Trott with another gem!

  • 💬 Entrepreneurial kids have figured out the future of the thrift shop: Instagram comments.
    I love this, this would have been back in the day, maybe insta is the new tuck shop hustle

  • 👏 The best rebrands on 2019

  • 🗣 TV and Gaming thought leader Matthew Ball’s latest essay with The Flaws of "Subscription Fatigue"

    • 📺 PWC’s look at the TV streaming market

  • 🚨 Does Facebook need an understand button - seems so

  • 🍏 🍔 🍟 Ordering by emoji is now a thing
    You might have noticed I love an emoji or two, something as simple as this could have a huge impact on those with learning difficulties or are based abroad.

  • 👗How young designers create powerful brand identities

  • 🎤 Drake’s signed a deal with new streaming company caffeine to stream exclusive content (and gaming)
    Live streaming and gaming is becoming more and more popular and becoming bidding wars for many large tech brands and sports & FMCG brands, consider live streaming as the category and gaming as a layer beneath, keep an eye for cookalongs, live chats over TV shows (watch parties) and live streaming education.

  • 📹 Conde Nast is now officially a video-first company

  • 📆 I’m a huge fan of blocking out time in your calendar, here is a great article from LinkedIn’s CEO on why it is so important

  • 🍿 Did SEO really have an impact on Birds Of Prey Launch?

  • 👩‍💻 Want to understand digital in your country, friend of the newsletter Simon released their quarterly country based insights, click on the flags for your report 🇬🇧 / 🇦🇺 / 🇺🇸


If you are at a crossroads with your career, the below video on TED is a good video, I also recommend The Dip as a book in my best business books.


New Feature

👍Winner of the week: Many will never get to attend or sit in a Board meeting, well Gumroad founder live streams his quarterly board meetings

👎Fail of the week: Glass flip smartphones, expensive, hard to fix and Android devices are released and typically forgotten about, will be the new curved TV.

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👏You Made It To The End 👏

Thanks for reading this week’s Must Read’s. Go and have a great weekend!  

Danny Denhard - 19 years in Marketing, Product, Business Leadership and Growth. I recently presented RIP to the CMO role presentation & I will be presenting at the Festival of Marketing in October. Most importantly I write this weekly Must Reads Newsletter and Blog on Growth, Product and Leadership. 

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Disclaimer: All views & recommendations are my own until you click through on the stories.
This week’s gif is from Giphy,

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