Episode 005 · Brand Science · Evidence · Growth

Brand Science, Applied

What does the evidence actually say about how brands grow? Not theory. What the science shows.

Mit Ethan Decker, Scientist-turned-marketer · Applied Brand Science

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Show Notes

Ethan Decker reveals the science of brand growth — the evidence-backed principles that challenge common myths and explain what actually drives brand success over time.

He applies the scientific method to marketing: forming hypotheses, testing them against evidence, and updating beliefs when the data disagrees with intuition.

A must-listen for anyone who wants to separate what they believe from what the research actually shows.

Half the ideas we have about advertising are wrong. Trouble is, we don't know which half.

— Ethan Decker

Gary Vee is extremely bullish on having a social media presence and posting multiple times a day. He thinks you have to do that if you are a brand. It's a law of branding. He's confused his own personal experience and a lever that he likes with a law.

— Ethan Decker

Buying patterns are not a bell curve. They're a banana curve, where it's high on one end, where all the light buyers are, and really low on the other end where the heavy buyers are.

— Ethan Decker

Humans are mental misers. We replace hard questions with easy ones. If a car is expensive, we assume it's better quality.

— Ethan Decker

So people are just people and it doesn't really matter too much in which context, whether business to business or business to consumer, they just still act as people.

— David Göz