Insights Type: Articles

Last month, after almost 3 years of hemorrhaging money, RadioShack filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Facing growing irrelevancy in the...
03.12.2015
As naming specialists know all too well, creating a brand name that passes creative and strategic muster is only part...
02.19.2015
In the 1980s in LA, Vietnamese immigrant David Tran started making his own version of a hot sauce based on...
02.11.2015
You may have heard about the trademark controversy that bubbled up between Lagunitas and Sierra Nevada. Lagunitas sued Sierra Nevada,...
01.26.2015
Originally published on Duetsblog on December 18, 2014   Of all the marketing people in the biz, you’d think a...
12.26.2014
Aloha! Here’s your quick PopNamer digest. (For the uninitiated, PopNamer is where we ask you to dub the un-named whatchamacallits of...
09.08.2014
As you may know, here at Catchword we run a weekly online naming game called PopNamer.  PopNamer is where we...
07.17.2014
This blog post originally appeared at the DuetsBlog. Wimbledon is winding down and fifth-seeded Maria Sharapova has been eliminated from the...
07.14.2014
Used to be if you were looking to register a domain name, .com or .org were the way to go....
05.13.2014
As naming consultants we often distinguish between two common categories of brand naming, descriptive naming and suggestive naming. The first...
04.18.2014

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