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Rebranding

Changing a product's name and logo is risky, so will Elon Musk's transformation of Twitter into X succeed, and how do you get a rebrand right? Evan Davis and guests discuss.

Elon Musk鈥檚 decision to rename Twitter 鈥榅鈥� has been met with confusion, and in some cases even anger, but where does it rank amongst the best and worst rebrands?

Evan Davis and guests discuss the complexity of changing a company or product name, logo and message, the reasons for doing it, and how to make it a success.

These overhauls can be risky, though, and failure expensive 鈥� the panel discusses one the UK鈥檚 textbook rebranding disasters.

Evan is joined by:

Lee Rolston, chief growth officer at Jones Knowles Ritchie;
Caroline Wiertz, professor of marketing at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) 鈥� City, University of London;
Amanda Mackenzie, former chief marketing and communications officer at Aviva;
Keith Wells, founder and director of Brandwell.

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Producer: Simon Tulett
Editor: China Collins
Sound: Graham Puddifoot and Rod Farquhar
Production co-ordinator: Gemma Ashman

(Picture: The new 鈥榅鈥� logo displayed on a smartphone with the old Twitter logo in the background. Credit: Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.)

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Mon 23 Oct 2023 11:30
主播大秀 Radio 4

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