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Competitive Creativity®. What is it and how does it drive growth for tech brands?
Imaginative Creativity + Systematic Creatiivity = Competitive Creativity® Most technology companies believe they compete primarily on product. Better features, better engineering, better performance. And in many cases, they do build excellent products. Yet in competitive markets, superior capability alone rarely guarantees growth. The reason is simple: buyers rarely experience markets through perfect comparison. They don’t calmly line up product features and make rational eva
Alistair Ross
Mar 64 min read


As a Creative Director, why you should take Mark Ritson's Mini MBA in Marketing.
In our fast-paced, low attention span society, familiarity and understanding are often mistaken for each other. I was brought up in a...
Alistair Ross
Jul 19, 20205 min read


Helping FinTech Soldo’s familiarity fly by implementing Competitive Creativity®
Familiarity is the biggest driver of consideration. So, let’s first try and familiarise you with the concept of Competitive Creativity ® , otherwise logic says you won’t consider it. Then we’ll explain how we introduced it into the Soldo spend management brand, enhancing their awareness, consideration and sales against their competitive set. Competitive Creativity ® in a nutshell Competitive Creativity ® is the deliberate sequencing of imaginative brand-building devices to
Alistair Ross
Mar 55 min read


How two distinct types of creativity can help FinTech marketers do more with less.
In most B2B and FinTech categories, buyers struggle to perceive meaningful differences between competing brands. Differentiation matters, but only if audiences notice and remember it. When differences are hard to evaluate, buyers default to brands that feel familiar and low risk. Familiarity is built through distinctive, emotionally engaging marketing that creates memory structures over time. Conversion efficiency improves when buyers already recognise and trust a brand befor
Alistair Ross
Mar 58 min read


Driving FinTech adoption and growth through distinctiveness
One of the top emerging trends FinTech marketers predict will take centre stage in 2026 is ‘building brand differentiators’ (48%) (1). But what actually is a brand differentiator, and how important are they? In simple terms, a brand differentiator is anything that reduces buyer uncertainty faster than competitors. It might be functional, product-led or emotional. But before losing sleep over engineering meaningful differentiation, there’s an uncomfortable truth worth ackno
Alistair Ross
Mar 56 min read


You can't graphic design your way to fame.
Let’s get something out of the way quickly, so the design purists can relax and unclench: graphic design matters . I studied visual...
Alistair Ross
May 6, 20253 min read


Nudge, nudge: how to coax people to try your tech
Along with Zoom quizzes and banana bread, QR codes were one of the surprise hits of the pandemic. Not so long ago, tech analysts had...
Suzanne Mucci
May 6, 20254 min read


An end to 488 days of Silence
We work in the business of communication. There is a pressure to continually talk, have a point of view, critique, or constructively add...
Alistair Ross
May 6, 20252 min read


LogicLogicMagic. The spontaneous storytelling game.
Some ideas transcend mediums. Before LogicLogicMagic was an agency, for two decades it was simply my personal creative philosophy. A...
Alistair Ross
Dec 1, 20232 min read
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