101 Great
Minds.

Top leaders in conversations about the role of music in the digital age.

About 101 Great Minds.

101 Great Minds on Music Brands and Behavior is a decade-long ongoing conversation about sonic branding. amp’s global CMO, Uli Reese, initiated this sonic journey to engage the top executives in the world of advertising and marketing in honest conversations about the role of music and sound in the digital age, ushering in a revolution of the overall branding approach!

Follow along as these thought leaders share their perspectives on everything from strategically approaching music to how ROI considerations and research impact the creative process. Whether you’re a composer, creative director, music supervisor, researcher, marketer, or brand strategist, you’re sure to find a wealth of insight that can shape your own thoughts about music, brands and behavior.

The wall of great minds

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Fabio Tambosi

“The notion of purpose brand-driven, purpose storytelling, and purpose marketing has been vandalized because there are only a few brands that have a purpose, and they're the ones that have outlasted every generation and every single product they've brought into the market.”

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Roman Reichelt

“Internal presentations aren’t based on sound and animations; we're using PowerPoint, spreadsheets, and PDFs. It’s easier in the corporate world to present a new logo than it is to present a new sound.”

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Gerard Duran

“When I think about the best-in-class brands in terms of sonic, they’ve managed to stick to something that eventually becomes part of the brand identity, and they adapt it to whatever medium comes along. But, unfortunately, sound comes as an afterthought for most brands.”

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Ravi Hampole

“The problem with this, in general, is that it's easy for the new generation to suss out when something's not real, so the framework has to be really good, really open, and authentic to the platform. That's a tough thing to do.”

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Tamara Rogers

“As marketers, we're often at the forefront of change, whether it's driving change within our organizations to embrace the new and the different externally.”

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Soyoung Kang

“The level of resilience that a brand needs to overcome a crisis is highly dependent on debiting from the bank of the brand equity you have built over time …”

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