A book by Thor Otar / Jakob Stigler

Build for
the moments
that build
your brand

A journey into the principles and practices that has repeatedly produced moments that bend culture, broke categories, and fundamentally defined the brands behind them.

Premise  /  01

15+ years
In the room
Ferrari · Oatly
Coach · Uber
& others.

This book is a journey into the mindset and mechanics that created some of the most transformative brand moments in the past 15 years. We blend our own experiences from the global advertising-race, with lessons from bold brand leaders, to break open the black box of truths, principles and playbooks for building lasting brand impact, influence, and cultural inflection points.

In a time where more than half of all brand initiatives crash-land, while AI accelerates sameness and brand half-lives are shrinking. The defining variable is human. Our ability to put conviction, clarity, capacity and catalysis behind creativity, is what turns great vision into great reality.

Authors  /  02

Thor Otar Stigler
Author

Jakob Stigler
Co-author

Magic Moves clothbound book in deep blue-gray with an embossed white ripple

02 / The premise

There is no magic. Just conditions.

Brands are maintained through constant motion. But they're defined in a handful of moments that shape what people notice, feel and remember.

Magic Moves explores how leaders can recognise those moments, create the right conditions and make choices that compound into memory.

03 / About the authors

Author

Thor Otar

Fifteen years at the intersection of brand, strategy and activation for leading global brands — Super Bowl campaign strategies, 80-market launch programs, viral campaigns in China, consumer movements in the Philippines. His years in media taught him it is never the media plan that saves a project; it is the mix of people, ideas and beliefs that makes magic possible.

Co-author

Jakob Stigler

Twenty years across the global media and advertising industry — a promoter of the power of creativity and an enabler of it across many organizations and companies. Jakob has served on the jury of Cannes Lions, and helped develop, plan and orchestrate some of the world's most recognized brand initiatives.

04 / Notes from the work

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