CHALLENGER BRAND
ready to rumble?

Sun | HabitatM
Sharpening and scaling. Tighter positioning and campaign-based media strategy built to own specific moments.
Star10 | HabitatM

Ready to rumble?

If you've got an important brand moment or product to launch, give yourself the best chance of success.

Contact us for a free consultation and strategic recommendations.

Competing is tough, time to get smart

You've already earned some traction, building influence and engagement in noisy competitive landscapes. But bigger, better-funded competitors often muddy the marketing waters, and differentiation takes more than shouting louder. The challengers we work with are usually navigating:

  • Larger competitors with stronger brand share of voice
  • Too much focus on short-term performance at the cost of brand building
  • Increasing difficulty maintaining a distinctive position as the category becomes more crowded
  • Budgets stretched thin across too many channels.

Your ability to position yourself with a smarter approach than the market is your real point of difference, and the brands willing to move with market intelligence are the ones outmanoeuvring reactive incumbents.

Integrating for success

We plug in as a genuine part of your marketing team, which is exactly what challenger brands need from an agency: senior people at the table, sharp strategy, clear reporting, and decisions made with commercial outcomes front of mind.

They genuinely integrate into your business and operate as an extension of your marketing team. They are proactive, commercially focused and bring senior people directly to the table, offering clear weekly reporting, regular meetings and practical recommendations that help you make better business decisions. What stands out is that they genuinely care about the decisions they make for their clients, something you do not always get from agencies anymore. They are passionate media guys who love what they do, and that shows in the quality of their thinking, service and work. They are just genuinely great people to work with.

Will, CEO, domo Insurance Brokers

Why Challenger Brands work with Habitat M

TIGHTER, MORE DISTINCTIVE
POSITIONING

Built through focused campaign-based bursts, coupled with opportunities that you can ‘own’ that let you punch above your media weight.

BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHT
VIA SQREEM

Uncovering untapped demand pools and real-time behavioural intent signals that your bigger, slower competitors are missing.

CONTINUOUS TEST-AND-LEARN
OPTIMISATION

Campaigns that evolve hour by hour, giving you the speed to outpace rivals with bigger budgets and slower decision-making.

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