Brandy Podcast

Brand strategy for people building what comes next.

Brandy is a weekly branding podcast with Reilly Newman and Scott Saunders.

Each episode connects brand strategy, design theory, psychology, and business reality to the outcomes founders actually care about: trust, differentiation, pricing power, market perception, and momentum.

The Brandy podcast with Reilly Newman and Scott Saunders
120Episodes and counting
WeeklyNew brand conversations
Top 3%Podcast globally
5.0Apple Podcasts rating
What we talk about

Brand conversations for people tired of shallow marketing advice.

Brandy is for founders, operators, creatives, and brand-minded leaders who want to understand why people trust, remember, choose, ignore, or undervalue a company. The conversations are candid, practical, and built around the psychology underneath better brand decisions.

Featured episodes

Start with a few conversations that give you a taste of Brandy.

With more than 120 episodes, the show moves from rebranding and positioning to trust, memory, buyer behavior, identity systems, and the odd cultural moment that reveals how brands really work.

Brand experience

They Ruined the Booty

Why brand themes are not decoration, but the operating system behind distinct, memorable brand experience.

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Identity strategy

The Logo Trap

A sharper look at why logo effectiveness cannot be reduced to whether a mark is descriptive or abstract.

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Buyer behavior

Your Brand Has a New Buyer

What happens when AI agents begin filtering, comparing, and choosing brands before a human buyer ever arrives.

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Perception risk

Ferrari's Jaguar Moment

How a brand can give its audience whiplash when the next move breaks the meaning people already trust.

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Brand memory

They Didn't Forget You

Why stalled growth can be a brand encoding problem: the market cannot remember what the experience failed to imprint.

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Rebranding ROI

Rebrand Reappraisal

How changing perception can change business value, buyer confidence, and growth momentum.

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Transformation

Transform Your Brand

Why a rebrand should change more than the surface and help the market understand the business differently.

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Brand experience

Theater of Brand

How story, script, and performance shape the way people experience and remember a brand.

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Rebrand risk

Jaguar Rebrand Fail

What Jaguar, Nicolas Cage, and consumer whiplash reveal about high-stakes brand transformation.

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Brand psychology

Cracker Barrel Rebrand Flop

Why nostalgia, heritage cues, and blanding can turn modernization into market resistance.

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Experience economy

Experience Economy

How Build-A-Bear, Disneyland, personalization, and participation make brands more memorable.

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Brand equity

Stop Destroying Brand Equity

Why rebrands should build from stored perception instead of erasing the meaning people already trust.

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Status brands

Why Status Drives Brands

How social signaling, perceived value, and positioning shape the way people choose modern brands.

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Brand strategy

You Can't Market Your Way Out

Why more marketing can amplify confusion when the real issue is positioning and brand meaning.

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Brand memory

They Didn't Forget You

Why stalled growth can be a memory problem when the brand left too little meaning to rebuild.

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