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The Problem with Trend Tracking

Harvard Business Review

To qualify as a trend, something must represent an emerging consensus. Both parties are to this extent "glocal" — global and local. A trend, for anthropological purposes, has to be a change in how culture defines how we see and act in the world. Novelties come and go. Keates certainly believes there's a trend here.

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How Story Platforms Help Global Brands Go Local

Harvard Business Review

One solution to this tension is to pursue what we call glocal advertising strategy — locally adapting a universally embraced core idea that will resonate in any market anywhere in the world.". Coke rolled out the "Go Crazy" campaign in numerous locales, including South America, Africa, the Middle East and the UK.

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