How We Support Place Teams

At City Nation Place, we exist to support, connect, celebrate and inspire the people behind places. 

If you want to connect with a network of like-minded place leaders, learn from thought-leading experts, keep up with the latest place trends, or tap into an extensive library of industry resources, data and case studies – you’re in the right place. 

Our mission is to help you grow your place economies and provide a better quality of life for your communities. Here are some of the ways you can utilize City Nation Place to support your team: 

Tap Into Insights, Trends & Case Studies:

• Enjoy unlimited free content: create an account to access interviews and articles from place leaders across the globe. Looking for a place to start? Check out our article on Defining Place Branding.

• Download our free Research Reports, which benchmark best practice by place brand and marketing organisations around the world, share measurement suggestions for calculating impact, and provide useful ideas for building the core foundation for an effective place brand strategy. 

• Sign up for our fortnightly CONNECT newsletter to keep up to date with the latest news, thought leadership, and reports you need to grow your place.

• Subscribe to the Place Brand Portfolio, the world’s largest searchable archive of place brand and marketing excellence which includes all the finalists’ case studies from the annual, global City Nation Place Awards. Be inspired by the ideas and learn from the effective approaches to citizen engagement, design identity, data, communication strategies, place shaping, and strategic place branding.

Elevate Your Team & Showcase Impact:

• Celebrate and benchmark your work by entering the annual City Nation Place Awards. Judged by an international jury of place leaders, becoming a finalist or winning an Award demonstrates to your stakeholders and your community that the work you are doing is impactful and admired on the international stage.

• Help your team sharpen their place branding and marketing skills with specialised, real-time training. The Place Brand Accelerator course brings together a small group of future place leaders for six weekly online sessions covering the fundamentals of place branding, place identity, and place marketing. Meet and learn with peers from around the world through a mix of expert-led teaching and practical exercises, ensuring you have the tools you need to deliver an impactful place brand strategy.

Expand Your Network of Place Professionals:

• Join us for one of our leadership conferences – with regional events for North America, Australasia, and the UK, plus the annual Global conference for places from all around the world, which takes place in London every November. These provide the best opportunity to learn from and network with other place leaders, as well as meet with and hear from the world’s leading expert consultants and agencies providing the full range of support you may need for your own strategy.

• Apply for a seat on our Advisory Board to join fellow place leaders from around the globe and share ideas through monthly online meetings, with guest speakers and a range of discussion topics. This is also your opportunity to influence our content, reports, and conference agendas.

• Become a City Nation Place Champion organisation. Our valued Champions benefit from a range of opportunities – with guaranteed places on our Advisory Group and Awards Jury, complimentary access to conferences, and preferential rates for Accelerator training. Your investment as a Champion supports the work we do on benchmarking research and your organisation will be acknowledged with branding on all reports and at all our events.

Find Tailor-made Solutions to Support Your Goals:

• Book a bespoke presentation for your organisation and/or your stakeholders on the power of place branding and marketing. With content tailored to your organisation and objectives, we’ll share expert insights on what place branding is, why it’s important for your place economy, what it entails, and how it can be delivered effectively, with relevant examples of success from around the world. The session can be delivered virtually or in person [depending on your budget] by Clare Dewhirst, the founder of City Nation Place, who leads on all our benchmarking research, contributes to our Accelerator training, and curates and chairs our international conferences.
  

• Do you have a particular challenge you’d like help with? We can provide a City Nation Place Lab session. City Nation Place can convene a group of place brand and marketing leaders and/or experts interested in the same issues and lead a brainstorming lab for your organisation and/or stakeholders, focused on your place objectives. This session can be tailor-made in terms of content, participants, and format according to your needs and your budget.

• Are you looking for the right outsourced solution? Please do browse our list of place brand and marketing experts – and if you’d like personal recommendations and/or introductions, please do get in touch.

• Interested in connecting with specific place brands? Let us know who’s work you admire and we’ll do our best to connect you.

Have questions or want to talk more about how we can support you and your organisation? Reach out to Clare at clare@citynationplace.com