As we gear up to the 9^th City Nation Place Americas conference, we’ve been surveying place leaders across the USA and Canada to provide a better understanding of where they are currently focusing their attention and what challenges they face. 

Paid ads can be a powerful tool for place brands. Here are ten tips to help you make the most of your ad budget and ensure your ads effectively attract businesses, residents, or visitors.

Colorado has traditionally spent millions each year selling the state as a place to play – yet very little on promoting itself as a place to do business. Discover how a complex research initiative helped build a regional brand for Metro Denver.

Resonance's Chris Fair looks at why aligned civic identity is more important to attracting talent, businesses and visitors than ever before.

Joy Riot's Jessica McCarthy explores how to effectively invest in primary research in order to ensure your place brand strategy is informed by data, insights, and hard evidence.

Starting with data that shapes your overall place brand strategy and moving on to refining your campaigns and marketing strategies, here are eight expert opinions on the most common errors being made so you can ensure you’re leveraging your data effectively.

At the 2023 City Nation Place Awards, Glasgow became the first city to take home the trophy for Best Use of Data, in recognition of the comprehensive and innovative work undertaken to map out the city’s tech ecosystem and create a foundation for data-driven storytelling around the sector. We sat down with Glasgow City Council's Gavin Smyth to understand precisely what it is that led to this data-driven triumph.

In the face of a complex, dynamic issues environment, what are the points of influence and the methods for controlling your place narrative? How can nation brand teams proactively identify emerging risks to their reputation and take preventative action?

How do you prove the efficacy of your place brand and marketing strategy? City Nation Place has carried out a research study to help place brand and marketing teams benchmark how they are measuring and demonstrating the impact of their work.

It is always a privilege to join delegates from around the world at City Nation Place Global to discover how cities, regions, and nations are redefining what success looks like in place branding and place marketing. With two hundred delegates in attendance, and speakers from every continent representing more than twenty places, this year was no exception.