News, analysis and advice on brand trust

How B2B brands build the credibility that earns attention from buyers, journalists, and AI.

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Hany Farid: Why We Trust Synthetic Faces More Than Real Ones

Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world's foremost...

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Does Your Speaking Voice Inspire Trust?

As business leaders, we are always working to determine the best messages to communicate—to our...

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Four Steps for Tech Companies to Win Back Customer Trust

Democrats and Republicans hardly agree on anything these days. But one thing they share is a...

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The Influence Continuum: Who We Trust in a Post-Truth World

By now you may have heard the term "post-truth." According to Oxford Dictionaries, it means...

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Website Visitors Trust Confident Content. Can They Trust Yours?

You can feel it. You're working busily on copy for your company's website. You know how important...

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The Fall of Stan Richards and the Rise of a New Era of Reputation Management

Note: first of two parts

Headquartered in Dallas, The Richards Group has long been one of the most...

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8 Factors That Make or Break Brand Trust—and the Trust Signals Behind Them

Everybody's talking about brand trust these days, and for good reason. Buyer research shows that...

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Trust Logos: 8 Third-Party Logos to Convince Website Visitors You're Legit

Note: Trustlogos.com forwards to this post. 

We write about many kinds of website trust signals on...

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What Brain Scans Tell Us About Website Trust Signals

Marketers have begun to explore the use of neuroimaging—functional MRI brain scans—in determining...

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Do Trust Badges Work? Here's What The Conversion Research Actually Shows

Note: ActualInsights.com forwards to this post. Actual Insights was a Dutch research firm founded...

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