Lifestyle Brand Strategy, Creative & Consulting

Key challenges faced by lifestyle brands today:

In today's hyper-competitive landscape, consumers have sky-high expectations of the brands they choose to let into their lives.

Sure, a well-designed logo & visual identity attract attention & create strong brand affinity. Great products are a mandatory. Sensory & emotional cues play a significant role in brand ethos. & bold marketing, merchandising, social media presence &advertising definitely drive success.

But lifestyle brands need more to build emotional—even inspirational—connections.

So, what brings a lifestyle brand to life in today's fiercely competitive, cluttered market as customers become choosier about their discretionary purchases?

Storytelling.

Story lives at the heart of the most immersive & memorable experiences. Clear, compelling stories become synonymous with great brands.

Whether your audience aspires to shoot hoops with friends or craves an escape to another time or place—great storytelling helps align your audience around social, cultural, political, environmental, personal aspirations or emotionally resonant values & identities.

How insurgents addresses these challenges

In business, storytelling is used to inform, educate, explain, connect, contextualize & communicate products or services.

Great stories make ideas more understandable & accessible. They inspire & engage decision-makers during pitches & presentations. Support a brand's beliefs & reinforce its positions.

When facts are wrapped in story, they become more compelling & memorable. & storytelling & brand DNA are inextricably linked.

But there's more: Scientists have discovered that stories light up our brains the same way pleasure does. They excite the neurons that make dopamine & stimulate the creation of oxytocin—the chemical that promotes prosocial, empathetic behavior.

At Insurgents, we are storytellers. We believe that the stories that prevail don’t just entertain – they matter. Because the #1 rule of story is Make me care.

We tell your authentic story to differentiate your brand from competitors & bring your brand positioning & values to life.

But we also make your audience the hero of the story to tap into their aspirations & help forge deep emotional connections.

By employing the 7 elements of great stories—Character, Setting, Plot, Conflict, Dialogue, Change and Moral—we create powerful tools that impact beliefs and behaviors. & create an army of evangelists.

Because we believe that brands that master the art of story become legendary. They are the ones that shape culture & help create a better, more interesting world.

Core Services

We believe brands are best when their purpose & promise touch every touch point. So, we do brands from end to end. Need a formula? We work with the best transformulators. Website? No worries. Digital? Logo or Package Design? Done! & done! & we do it all without the outrageous agency bloat that bogs thinking – or budgets - down. Seriously who has time for that!

  • Your ONE WORD Brand Anchoring Theme is your most critical guiding concept. But too often it’s hiding in an accumulating mish-mash of competing ideas. We begin by blowing things up. We take your brand apart piece by piece to reveal the ONE WORD that defines your brand, delivers your promise, disrupts your industry & grows your business.

    • Brand Equity Analysis

    • Stakeholder Interviews

    • Competitive Review

    • Market & Consumer Insights

    • Trend Analysis

    • Whitespace Opportunities

    • Quan & Qual Testing (if required)

    • Findings Presentation

  • Now comes the fun part. Rebuilding. We help create a credible, compelling & consistent Brand World including architecture, narrative & culture with the power to burn its way into the hearts & minds of your teams, stakeholders, partners & customers so they believe what you believe & become diehard evangelists.

    • ONE WORD Anchoring Theme

    • Brand Positioning & POV

    • Storytelling Strategy

    • Brand & Product Naming

    • Core Messaging & Tone of Voice

    • Visual Identity & Art Direction

    • Portfolio Architecture

    • Brand Culture

  • We design a dynamic & distinctive identity system that is strategically & aesthetically aligned to your brand your including logo design, colors, fonts, photography style, iconography, and other brand elements. Then we show how they are applied across marketing, collateral, web design, PR & messaging. This framework ensures accuracy & consistency at all touchpoints.

    • Brand Guidelines & Aesthetics

    • Mood Boards

    • Asset Library

    • Logo Design or Redesign

    • Visual Identity System

    • Typography

    • Color Design

    • Package Design

  • Now it’s time to take your message to the world. We’ll help you create provocative creative, marketing & communications across all touchpoints The result: strategies that pull rather than pitch, experiences that increase mindshare & market share & communications filled with wit, emotion & humanity.

    • Campaign Creative & Production

    • Marketing Strategy

    • Advertising

    • Website & Ecommerce Design

    • CRM

    • Social & Content Strategy (Blogs, Articles & Posts)

    • Out-of-Home (OOH)

    • Video & Motion Graphics

    • Photography

    • Social Mission & Impact Strategy

    • Brand Culture Development

  • In a world of rapid-fire change, brands must constantly find new ways to solve authentic problems & bring their stories to life without abandoning their core beliefs. We flood the zone with experiences that increase awareness & engagement, deepen emotional connections, deliver a powerful competitive advantage to move hearts & minds as much as they move businesses & the bottom line.

    • Business Development

    • Growth Strategy

    • Product Innovations

    • Promotions & Seasonal Campaigns

    • Brand Partnerships & Collaborations

    • Influencer Campaigns

    • Merchandising Strategy

    • Retail Experiences

  • Future-proofing is all about anticipating what’s next & developing the strategies that help you to succeed long-term. We have our finger on the marketplace right now & a Spidey sense for where it’s headed tomorrow. This vital intel will help you have the radical readiness to evolve & seize bold & game changing opportunities that will grow your business, disrupt your industry & keep your brand vibrant, alive & relevant.

    • Innovation Strategy

    • Tomorrow Finding

    • Trend Watching

    • Competitive Tracking

Lavit
Transform water into pure wonder.

Forget wimpy, weak watered-down drinks. Forget tasting somebody else’s Coconut in your Kiwi. Forget sugary soft drinks & gnarly aftertaste. Forget costly, cumbersome drink-and-toss plastic bottles that pollute parks, rivers & the ocean. Just remember that with a touch of a button, you can enjoy a pure, deliciously refreshing beverage, still or sparkling, with zero sugar, zero preservatives & just 10 calories.

Allegro
What do you do.

The line between work & life is blurring rapidly as our days become more fluid & fast paced, our gear needs to shape shift on-demand. Now for those whose life is a total mixed bag, we created “The HypheNator” the one and only “Hackpack” with the ability & agility to shape-shift at will.

Brilli Lightbulbs
The light that turns you on.

Our brilliant work for Brilli Light Bulbs lit up the wellness category – making them not only first company to focus on improving health, wellness, mood & energy through light but helping them become the largest health & wellness lighting company in the US.

Linhaus
Be engaged

While many engagement & wedding brands focus on the ring & the “Ask”, Linhaus empowers couples to personally design their own unique, lasting commitment to one another. We chose “Be Engaged” as the call-to-action that celebrates the deep bond & highlights the one-of-a-kind experience Linhaus offers couples.

SoulLink
Find your self.

Unlike “mainstream” meditation apps that merely offer a blissful, yet momentary escape from daily struggles, Soul Link redefines meditation, propelling users into a realm of self-discovery, transcendence & inner growth delivered through evidence-based design & the impact of music on the brain, creating a curated fusion of science & spirituality.

 Frequently Asked Questions

  • We have invented & reinvented many successful new brands for both major corporations & entrepreneurial ventures – from prestige to mass – in categories that run the gamut from B2B to B2C, CBD to CPG, fashion to food, pharma to fitness, beauty to banking, supplements to sustainability, hospitality to home, & toys to tech. And we are always up for the challenge of something new.

  • Some believe white space is a place where there’s no competition. Or an entirely new market. But White Space is actually the search for the unknown. Too often the pressures of P&L, COG, scalability, volume projections, development costs loom over teams crippling the imagination. They worry “is this idea big or worthy enough?” We believe that brilliant solutions are often hidden in plain site. We never worry about asking dumb questions, because in doing so we get super smart answers. We get out of the office, wander & wonder. As they say, if you want to understand how the lion hunts, don’t go to the zoo. Give us a shout out. We’re always up for a safari.

  • At Insurgents, we don’t have a permanent staff. We work on what’s called a Hollywood Model. We handpick a one-of-a-kind team of Oscar-worthy talent from our vast network of marketers, creative directors, package & web designers, product developers & social media pros curated specifically for your project. Leading to a truly personalized client-centric solution. & there’s no bureaucracy or "middle- men" to muck things up. Our approach also means we’re more agile & able to turn things around with deft speed.

  • Sometimes even the strongest brand finds itself facing a fork in the road. The marketplace shifts. Customer tastes evolve. A sexy new product wows the marketplace. A great big Black Swan event swoops in & creates shock waves. A reboot need not be a revolution. We believe that the most successful brand refresh comes from embracing, not erasing its original heart & soul – & reframing it for the problem your audience currently faces.

Get in Touch.

Whether you’re an Insurgent start up seeking to be scalable – or saleable – or a Resurgent – a mature brand in search of your lost mojo, Insurgents can help you create bold, game changing ideas, strategies that sizzle and experiences that surprise, engage, delight and inspire customers and move the marketplace

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