Comms Strategy · The Foundation

Words
move
people.
We know this.

Every campaign, every activation, every OOH board, every post — it all lives or dies by the idea at its centre. That idea is comms strategy.

A point of view so clear and so true that every channel it touches becomes more powerful because of it.

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Comms strategy is the most important type of strategy (my personal opinion). It doesn't just define what a brand says — it defines what a brand means, and it is foundational to every channel and every type of strategy. To the person on the street. To the person scrolling at midnight. To the person who will never read a brief but will remember a feeling.

01
Experiential

When strategy becomes something you can walk into, touch, taste. The idea must be strong enough to survive the real world.

Live & in-person
02
Sponsorship

Borrowed equity only works when the platform truth aligns with the brand truth. Strategy is the bridge.

Partnerships
03
Brand platform

The beating heart. The line the whole organisation can rally around. The reason for being, made shareable.

Foundation
04
OOH

Six words. Three seconds. A city watching. There is no more demanding test of a comms idea than a billboard.

Outdoor
05
Social & digital

The platform changes every year. The human on the other side doesn't. Strategy keeps the brand consistent when the channel is chaos.

Always-on
06
The slogan

Call it a platform. Call it a line. Call it a north star. What matters is that it speaks to the consumer and tells the truth.

The idea

How I get there

Find the insight

The real one. The uncomfortable truth the consumer already believes but no brand has said out loud yet.

Name the tension

Great comms strategy lives in the gap between where people are and where they want to be. I find that gap.

Write toward it

I think in words first. The right language unlocks the right idea. I write my way to the strategy, not after it.

Make it live

Words become experiences. Experiences become memories. That's when a comms strategy becomes a brand.

My background

I think
in words.

I came up as a writer. That means I don't wait for the strategy to hand me the language — I use language to find the strategy. There's a difference between a strategist who can write and a writer who can think strategically. I'm the second one. It changes everything about how ideas come to life.

What is the universal truth — the moment that both the brand and consumer know to be true, but have never thought to say out loud before?

On finding the idea

What summarises the idea in the most ownable, on-brand way possible?

On what makes a platform real

What is the experience that, when paired with the right message, invokes a feeling, an emotion, a memory?

On experiential strategy