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 bended culture, broke categories, and defined the brands behind them.

Background  /  01

15+ YEARS W. GLOBAL BRANDS
200+ PROJECTS ORCHESTRATED
30+ MARKETS / COUNTRIES
P&G · OATLY · FERRARI · VEO · VOLVO · PANDORA · COACH · UBER · SK-II & OTHERS.

Authors  /  02

Thor Otar
Author

Jakob Stigler
Co-author

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, capacity, convergence and catalysis behind ideas, is what turns great vision into great reality.

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

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.

What's inside

FOUR BLUEPRINTS

Authors

Author

Thor Otar

Fifteen years in the back kitchen with some of the worlds most powerful brands. Across Super Bowl campaigns, 80-market launches, viral moments in China, street-level movements in the Philippines. The lesson that stuck wasn't in any deck: projects aren't rescued by the media plan. Or genius creative. They're engineered. Planned. They are hard work, that looks like magic to anyone who wasn't in the war-room at 2am.

Co-author

Jakob Stigler

Twenty years across the global media, advertising and creative industry. Jakob promotes the idea that creativity can be a change agent in companies and industries, when its enabled and deployed with zeal. He has served on the jury of multiple creative festivals including the Cannes Lions, and helped develop, plan and orchestrate some of the world's most recognised brand initiatives.

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