Point of View
Strategy literature calls them blue oceans. I call them cultural shifts, leveraged early.
Cirque du Soleil didn't beat the circus. It read a culture that had outgrown the traditional circus, and built for where audiences were already going.
I've run that play my whole career,
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Taking Ford Toronto Dealers, Chinese-Goldfish Crackers, Campbell Canned soups, Caribbean Tales X TIFF, to communities Canada didn't quite market to, launching Built2Cook (D2C ingredient delivery service) into a category India didn't have a name for yet (in 2015), building new content & talent revenue engines inside a legacy broadcast house (Times Group 2022-25) .
New markets don't come from beating competitors. They come from reading culture before it becomes data.
That's what the Cultural $oul™ s - WSR Intelligence™ & 4C Signal Check™ exist to do.
