On Brand With Nick Westergard

Hosted ByNick Westergard

On Brand helps organizations and individuals tell stronger stories and build better brands. Each week host Nick Westergaard, author of Brand Now and Get Scrappy, interviews marketing and communication thought leaders or those working for innovative brands like Adobe, Ben & Jerry’s, Maker’s Mark, the Minnesota Vikings, The Onion, Salesforce, and Whole Foods. For show notes and more, please visit http://onbrandpodcast.com.


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Social Sound Bite: A Facebook Dislike Button? What the What?!

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed some big news on Facebook. This past Tuesday Mark Zuckerberg announced that they were adding a new button. While many have called…

How Culture Impacts Brand Building with Amber Naslund

“This is a cultural shift. Not an operational shift. You have to understand people first.” As the SVP of Marketing for Sysomos and co-author of The Now Revolution,  understands the impact people — both internally and externally…

Social Sound Bite: New Facebook Page Features Help Admins

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed several new Facebook page features that should make admin’s lives a lot easier. Soon pages will start appearing in new shopping…

Why Brand Constraints Inspire Creativity with Joe Pulizzi

“It’s not what we sell. It’s what we stand for.” This simple statement provides a concise summary of the key differences between traditional brand advertising and modern content marketing. At the forefront of this movement is ,…

Social Sound Bite: Instagram Says It’s No Longer Hip to Be Square

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed a new feature on Instagram. Or, more accurately, an existing feature with a big change. Instagram has been defined by their fun filters…

Being a Brand Editor with Gaggle’s Rob Yoegel

“There’s no one size fits all in marketing today. It’s like football, though. Everyone is trying to move the ball down the field.” In a career that has taken him from commercial publishing to financial services B2B and now educational…

Social Sound Bite: Instagram & Pinterest Up, Twitter & LinkedIn Flat

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed some new insights from a Pew Research Center study. Specifically the fact that Instagram and Pinterest usage has doubled since they…

How Realtime Branding Is Possible with Insights from Zignal Labs

“Today brands need to surgically remove and filter insights.” How can we make sense of it all? This week on the On Brand podcast I was joined by two old friends,  and . These two innovative marketers have joined forces as part of…

Social Sound Bite: Air Force Warns That “Loose Tweets Destroy Fleets”

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed something of a throwback campaign. Hearkening back to the Navy’s World War II propaganda poster “loose lips sink ships,” the…