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A few well-chosen words is often all that is needed for a consumer to recall a favorite brand. But today, marketers and advertisers tend to rely on visual cues -- a font, a color, a spokesperson, or even an icon -- to inspire.
Consider this: What phrase do you associate with Nike? Would the brand symbolize the same attitude without their famous "Just Do It" tagline?
There is power in right words. But if you still don't believe me, take our quiz below. Can you guess the brands behind these famous taglines and slogans? And how do these phrases change the way you think about each company?...
It's the great American pastime.
No, I'm not talking about baseball. Or stuffing your face with apple pie. Or arguing about politics with your family over Thanksgiving dinner. No, I'm talking about the great American pastime of buying stuff.
Unlike those other pastimes, however, which have remained relatively unchanged over the years, the way we buy has evolved considerably. For example ...
In 1914, you might've been tempted to buy a (non-branded) pastry after noticing a delicious smell emanating from the local bakery.
In 2014, you might be tempted to buy a Pop-Tart after seeing a commercial for Pop-Tarts on TV, or after reading an article about Pop-Tarts on The Wall Street Journal website, or after hearing about (or attending) a Pop-Tarts-brandedsummer concert series....
These days, we are constantly being sold products and experiences but now, companies are getting more trixsy.
...Over at AdWeek, David Gianatasio writes that advertising and television shows (and music videos) are getting more integrated by the day, especially since consumers are so good at tuning out what we don’t want to hear. When was the last time you clicked a banner ad or a sponsored tweet or Instagram post? Never, unless it was by accident and then you were pissed about the seconds you'd never get back.
In response, advertising agencies are finding new ways to woo us with funny commercials or, say, placing their products in the middle of Top Chef, instead of, say, having Halle Berry mention the brand name of her lipstick on the Today Show....
You've logged countless hours on the Internet, in front of a television or just participating in society—absorbing ad messages wherever you go. Branding is everywhere, whether you like it or not. We descended upon the signage capital of the world, New York's Times Square, to test passersby on their knowledge of some of the more famous taglines in American culture.
Take a look above, and see how they fared. And see how you'd do. Pop quiz, hot shot!...
...Think of your brand’s logo like that crazy shirt. You want it to stick out in people's minds, allowing them to recall your brand later on.
Maybe it's something unique in your logo, or something awesome your brand has done. Either way, your logo should be front of mind for your audience, and associated with your brand and product.
Your logo says a lot about you, and can be very powerful. Have you ever wondered why Coca Cola rarely changes their famous red logo? Or why Pepsi spent a lot of money rebranding back in 2008? What about the highest valued brand in the world? Take a look at some of the most well known logos and brands in the world, researched and compiled by RubyMediaCorporation, and see what the hidden meaning behind each one is....
There’s an increasing temptation to see technology as the harbinger of hope and hazard.
... So what are the take-aways for strategists? How should we realistically plot futures for our brands that make sense now and yet make allowance for ideas and issues that are often founded but unproven.To me, brand prosperity depends on four actions: 1. Building and maintaining a purposeful, vigorous and curious, values based culture that is motivated to resist revergence. 2. Creating and implementing strategies that cement customer loyalty and generate areas of leadership. I say areas of leadership in the context of marketplaces because I don’t believe that a market leading brand needs to lead in every aspect of that market. It must however own the rights to a clear, sustainable and distinctive direction. “Own the rights” is not about IP. It’s about having permission from consumers to forge ahead with an idea and to take them on that journey. 3. Developing a flexible portfolio of strategies to address potential and actual competitor behavior across the four external forces (divergence, convergence, credence and re-emergence) 4. Funding research and development programs not just to develop product improvements but to look to prepare the brand to leverage emerging technologies and address pending issues in ways that correlate with the brand’s purpose.
What if the advertising industry were to take immediate action henceforth and stop making advertisements as of today? Finally, shoppers will be able to decide where to shop and what to buy in a clean undisturbed, commercial-free universe.
Several studies have been conducted to find out people's attitude towards advertisements. Unsurprisingly most of the results reveal a mild to extreme negativity towards advertisements. What if the advertising industry were to take immediate action henceforth and stop making advertisements as of today? Marketing executives value their customers and their customers value their favorite brands. However, as research shows a growing negativity toward the ad industry, a world without advertisements could become desirable.
An alarm rings to wake you up, the television switches on and programs stream past without a single disruptive advertisement. The newspaper lies open on the kitchen table brimming with articles line to line, devoid of the advertisements that provoke such a strong irritation within you. No more discounts, no more coupons, just pure media content. This is good news for the millions of banner blinds. There will be no more banner and display ads suggesting brands you might need as if the ad industry knew what you were in need of....
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Many agencies have launched their own incubators and accelerators in the past few years. Learn about 16 cool products agencies have launched.Agencies have, within their walls, some of the most brilliant creative and strategic minds. But these creatives are subject to the volatile business of agencies: Project work that comes and goes, relationships with risk-adverse clients, and billing rates that are stagnant.Agencies believe they are in the services business, so that is what they do. But in reality, they have the knowledge, expertise, and experience necessary to create products, services, and software.That's why so many agencies have launched their own incubators and accelerators in the past few years....
Brand teams are quick to rebrand when they hit a rough patch. But they sometimes forget that a brand is more than a company name, logo, tagline, or ad creative. And that a shiny new brand identity won’t automatically solve all of the problems of the business.
The marketing world is littered with failed rebranding initiatives (from the Gap to Tropicana) that illustrate one simple truth about branding. A company doesn’t own a brand. It’s consumers do. Giving a brand a new coat of paint (or dressing it in sheep's clothing) won’t change consumers feelings and expectations of a brand....
What is so mesmerizing about the Trivago Guy?
One of the most unexpected marketing success stories in recent months has been the ascendance of Trivago, a Düsseldorf-based travel search engine.
Some data from researcher YouGov's BrandIndex shows Trivago has come out of nowhere to become as well-known among travelers as Priceline. Some 29% of 3,200 leisure travelers polled by YouGov recall seeing an ad for Trivago — the same amount as Priceline. Expedia got 19% in the same poll. Tripadvisor, which recently launched a $30 million ad campaign, went from 5% to 15%, which is about half of Trivago's score....
Bob ‘The Ad Contrarian’ Hoffman opened the 2014 ITV Spotlight Lecture last March – a debate on the failed predictions of advertising experts over the past decade, with particular focus on the social media marketing of brands, to wit: ...there are people in our business who believe that consumers are ‘in love’ with brands. They believe consumers want to have ‘relationships’ with brands. they want to have ‘brand experiences’ and be ‘personally engaged with brands’.
These people actually believe this. You go to their Twitter profile: ‘I’m passionate about brands!’ You’re what? Dude, get a fucking girlfriend.
You’ll like Bob....
2013 was full of key media milestones: The entry of successful entrepreneurs into the news business, the meteoric rise of BuzzFeed, and the re-emergence of long-form journalism.
We attended The Future of Media Conference at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business for the second year in a row to explore what’s happening in the media and what’s to come.The conference boasted a star-studded set of speakers, starting with media entrepreneur and explorer, Chas Edwards of Pop-Up Magazine and the much-awaited California Sunday, and closing with Todd Yellin, VP of Product Innovation at Netflix.
We share 10 takeaways from the day....
Few ad campaigns in recent times have been as memorable as the "Hello, I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" series from a few years back. The ads showed Justin Long as the hip embodiment of Mac users and John Hodgman as the stiff personification of PC folk. Never mind that Hodgman is unquestionably cooler than Long; the point of the ads presented viewers with a question put best by Seth Stevenson at Slate: "Would you rather be the laid-back young dude or the portly old dweeb"? At its core, the campaign suggested that people who buy Macs have fundamentally different personalities than those who prefer PCs. But there's a long history of evidence failing to find any meaningful personality differences between users of competing brands. One review from the 1970s reported that the majority of studies revealed a weak connection between personality and consumer behavior at best, and in some cases none at all....
From ignoring your logo to including every piece of contact information possible in your email signature, here are a dozen things to avoid to maintain brand harmony.... [Good reminders for marketers, reputation managers - JD]
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I thought this quiz would be a slam dunk. It's not! This is a tough one without the visuals. Have fun trying.