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State of Brand

State of Brand is a trade publication covering **brand strategy and category positioning** for **CMOs, brand strategists and marketing leaders**. It is an owned media property published by **Outlever**, a company that builds and runs owned media for mid-market and enterprise organizations. There is no fee to participate in an interview.

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# State of Brand

> State of Brand is a trade publication covering **brand strategy and category positioning** for **CMOs, brand strategists and marketing leaders**. It is an owned media property published by **Outlever**, a company that builds and runs owned media for mid-market and enterprise organizations. There is no fee to participate in an interview.

## What is State of Brand?

We report on the ideas, people and developments shaping **brand strategy, category positioning, and how brands hold meaning as media fragments**. Most of our coverage comes from the executives, operators and subject matter experts doing the work firsthand.

A lot of that coverage ends up being about the job itself. The marketing function keeps getting redrawn. Work that used to sit somewhere else, like pricing, product marketing, category creation, community and parts of sales enablement, now lands on the same desk. Some companies have retitled the role or folded it into a revenue org. Tenure in the seat is shorter than almost anywhere else in the C-suite.

Several pressures sit underneath that. Performance channels hit diminishing returns, so brand is back on the agenda, but it has to be argued for in the language of revenue. Attribution rewards the channels with the least influence over how a buyer actually makes up their mind. AI collapsed the cost of producing creative, which pushes whatever advantage is left further upstream into positioning and judgment. A CMO today is asked to own the company's standing in rooms where nothing can be bought, and that is a different job than the one the title used to describe.

Our readership is global and includes professionals at Fortune 500 companies and leading organizations across brand and marketing. We write for practitioners. Our readers usually know what a campaign looked like from the outside. What they want is how it got approved, what it cost, and what the person running it would do differently.

## Why does State of Brand exist?

Most of what happens inside an industry never gets written down anywhere useful.

The general business press covers the biggest brands and the loudest campaigns. Trade coverage has thinned out as publications consolidated and staff writers left the beat. That leaves a lot of ground uncovered.

Meanwhile the people doing the work have knowledge their peers would pay for and nowhere durable to put it. Someone rebuilt a brand system after a merger and learned things in the process that were never recorded. Someone else defended a category position against a better-funded competitor, and the only account of how it went lives in their head.

That is the material we go after. We report on the parts of this industry nobody else is filing, and we get it from the people who lived them instead of from press releases and analyst notes.

## What is owned media?

Owned media is a publication that a company owns and runs itself, built to serve a readership instead of a funnel.

The difference is editori
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