The report will look at the following brand concepts; brand community, brand identity, brand architecture, brand personality, emotional aspects to a brand, brand awareness, brand meaning, brand associations, brand loyalty and Brand experience.
Advertising model has been developed over the decades to try to quantify, scale and understanding the process that is very much complex because the consumers mind is constantly changing and evolving. The report will review and place context to the adverting models that are widely known within the industry. These model will then be applied the Nestle brand KitKat to show how macro PESTEL influences effected advertising.
Brand Management Project on Maggi noodlesAnil Nandyala
• Brand Image Measurement using Brand Asset Valuator method
• Brand Equity Measurement using Colombo Morrison & Van Westendorps method
• Brand Value Measurement using Inter brand valuation method
Integrated marketing commuinication plan an IMC plan Ahmed Hazzaa
An IMC plan presentation for an Egyptian company called Kaha faced a development crisis during the 90's in this presentation providing a new design for the packaging and new target segment among the youth in the Egyptian society and new form of distribution
Advertising model has been developed over the decades to try to quantify, scale and understanding the process that is very much complex because the consumers mind is constantly changing and evolving. The report will review and place context to the adverting models that are widely known within the industry. These model will then be applied the Nestle brand KitKat to show how macro PESTEL influences effected advertising.
Brand Management Project on Maggi noodlesAnil Nandyala
• Brand Image Measurement using Brand Asset Valuator method
• Brand Equity Measurement using Colombo Morrison & Van Westendorps method
• Brand Value Measurement using Inter brand valuation method
Integrated marketing commuinication plan an IMC plan Ahmed Hazzaa
An IMC plan presentation for an Egyptian company called Kaha faced a development crisis during the 90's in this presentation providing a new design for the packaging and new target segment among the youth in the Egyptian society and new form of distribution
Marketing : Repositioning Strategies of Cadbury Dairy MilkRohan Bharaj
The presentation tries to cover the repositioning strategies adopted by Cadbury Dairy Milk since the 1990s to keep reinventing their image in the minds of the customers.
A communication plan for Singapore based brand Charles & Keith to penetrate the UK market sufficiently and build their market share in the UK retail industry.
Kiehl's Case Study - Company & Industry Analysis vis-a-vis Men's Grooming Nikhil Saraf
Analyzed the status of Kiehl’s:
- SWOT analysis of the Kiehl’s brand when it comes to male beauty products
- Business performance
- Products (packaging, visuals, ranges, geography, claims, USP <unique>)
- Market share and ranking
- Positioning and image
- Pricing
- Consumers
- PR & Digital strategy
- Retail strategy
- Merchandising
- In-store & online activities
[Entry for Loreal Brandstorm 2014]
A brief look into brand identity and some of the models involved with its such as the brand identity prism. as well as examples of Nikes Identity prism and Jaguars identity prism.
A lot more info can be located on my website : https://digibowl.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/what-is-brand-identity-a-closer-look-at-the-brand-identity-prism/
This PPT gives explanation to what is personality,what is the nature of personality and Different theories of personality given by different psychologists like Sigmund Frued, Karen Horney etc.
Case study: Share a Coke Campaign Post-analysis
Campaign: Share a Coke
Client: Coca-Cola
Agencies: Naked, Ogilvy, Wunderman, Ikon, Fuel, Urban, Momentum, One Green Bean
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Marketing : Repositioning Strategies of Cadbury Dairy MilkRohan Bharaj
The presentation tries to cover the repositioning strategies adopted by Cadbury Dairy Milk since the 1990s to keep reinventing their image in the minds of the customers.
A communication plan for Singapore based brand Charles & Keith to penetrate the UK market sufficiently and build their market share in the UK retail industry.
Kiehl's Case Study - Company & Industry Analysis vis-a-vis Men's Grooming Nikhil Saraf
Analyzed the status of Kiehl’s:
- SWOT analysis of the Kiehl’s brand when it comes to male beauty products
- Business performance
- Products (packaging, visuals, ranges, geography, claims, USP <unique>)
- Market share and ranking
- Positioning and image
- Pricing
- Consumers
- PR & Digital strategy
- Retail strategy
- Merchandising
- In-store & online activities
[Entry for Loreal Brandstorm 2014]
A brief look into brand identity and some of the models involved with its such as the brand identity prism. as well as examples of Nikes Identity prism and Jaguars identity prism.
A lot more info can be located on my website : https://digibowl.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/what-is-brand-identity-a-closer-look-at-the-brand-identity-prism/
This PPT gives explanation to what is personality,what is the nature of personality and Different theories of personality given by different psychologists like Sigmund Frued, Karen Horney etc.
Case study: Share a Coke Campaign Post-analysis
Campaign: Share a Coke
Client: Coca-Cola
Agencies: Naked, Ogilvy, Wunderman, Ikon, Fuel, Urban, Momentum, One Green Bean
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The phenomenon of brands has transformed the economy and people’s way of life all around the world. Brands constitute part of both the economic dimension (as a business tool) and the social dimension (as a sociological phenomenon) and have the power to change them.
Martin Kornberger, Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, in his book “Brand Society” defends that brands are used to obtain immediate economic returns rather than to transform the society and people’s lives that in turn would lead to economic results and it’s time to change the situation and try to establish close and well-coordinated relations between producers and consumers.
Nowadays, brands represent a new form of organising production and managing consumption and are transcending their habitual domain (organisation) and stretch the borders of influence. They should conform to a formula that combines magic and logic, this is, brands need to provide solutions for improving our lives and at the same time leave impressions in our lives.
The monopoly of businesses for instituting organisation and production is giving way to creativity of communities and social networks. Boundaries between the internal and external are disappearing, enabling greater interaction between stakeholders. Organisational culture is changing towards lower fragmentation and fewer internal divisions. Management is no longer governed by the ideas of authority and control, and includes more elements of autonomy and cooperation.
Regarding this aspect, brands challenge the traditional identity of companies, their capacity to innovate and their organisational culture by putting them in touch with new realities and needs and helping them to understand the changes in the society, economy and capitalism.
Capitalism used to be cold, rational and mechanical. Brands, on the contrary, encourage companies to be more approachable, emotional and organic and drive management through identity, values and life style and act as a link between business and culture that has been missing up until now,
Expectations of stakeholders, and customers in particular, have grown in what concerns design. Ikea, Apple, Google or Starbucks are some of the companies that have understood how to effectively associate the design with their brands and have understood that now brands have to express beauty and be beautiful.
To conclude, Kornberger explains the way psychology, sociology and economy converge; they
transform the way people live and consume as well as the way companies produce goods.
There is no doubt about the importance of brand, and yet more research is needed in the area in order to enable brands accomplish their mission: combine the social and economic dimensions in order to create value.
Reverse product placement, fictional brands and purchase intention:Fancy a co...Laurent Muzellec
fictional brands are brands that exist only in the world of fiction and not the real physical
world.reverse product placement consists of transforming these fictional brands into products
and services in the real physical world.this paper posits that consumers,despite having no preexisting
experience of fictional brands in the real world, may develop positive attitudes towards
fictional brands; hence the fundamental managerial question is to ascertain whether these
positive attitudes can drive purchase intention to justify the investment into a real product or
service based on the fictional brand. using two fictional service brands, ‘Maclaren’s Pub’ and
‘Central Perk’, featured respectively in How I Met Your Mother and Friends, this study confirms
the existence of protobrands, and shows that attitudes towards a fictional brand are driven by
perceived service quality, identification with the brand and attitudes towards the television
programme. the study goes on to provide evidence that attitudes towards the fictional brand
can influence purchase intention of a future defictionalised brand in the real world.the paper
contributes to product placement and branding literature in a new emerging area.
Developing Relationships; consumers as a source for sustainable competitive a...Kevin Rommen
The world is changing thus business units should also be changing. The influences of social media and internet can no longer be neglected, case in point “Nestlé’s epic social media #fail”1. These changes are giving consumers more and more power in their relationship with business units. Furthermore the enormous amount of products available give consumers more and more possibilities to choose from. For example, at supermarkets in the USA you’ll find in the average week about 110 cereal brands in stock (Shum, 2004). The availability of that amount of different products/product-ranges within an industry raises the question to how business units can create competitive advantage within this enormous amount of competition, especially when the consumer is gaining power?
MASSTIGE MARKETING: AN ANALYSIS ON BRAND DEMOCRATIZATION AND CUSTOMER BRAND E...indexPub
The process of Brand Democratization (BD) is primarily responsible for the increased marketing of luxury brands that were formerly only available to the upper echelons of society. Nonetheless, there is a dearth of scholarly investigation into the effects of democratization and how they affect consumer brand involvement. Advocates for a deeper knowledge of brand democratization point to the literature and the preliminary conceptual model as means of exploring the emphasized assumptions of brand democratization and customer-brand engagement.
The article analyzes the concept of the brand, the advantages and disadvantages of the brand, the best brands in the world. The article states that a brand is a graphic mark, word or phrase that denotes and distinguishes goods belonging to one company from goods belonging to another company. The brand is one of the elements of marketing, advertising. Brand may include various symbols, their combinations, and other visual information. Brand can consist of a brand name and a brand symbol. Brand should not be confused with the company logo, which identifies the company itself, but the company may use a common mark, in which case both the logo and the brand are as follows itself. Margarita Išoraite "Best Brand in the World" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46351.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/marketing/46351/best-brand-in-the-world/margarita-išoraite
Brands in Strategic Marketing guest lectureHenri Weijo
This is a presentation I gave on March 23rd at the Helsinki School of Economics as a guest lecturer. In this presentation I go through the fundamental differences between mind-share, emotional, viral, and cultural branding, and also try to map out how they relate to each other in terms of synergy and different stages of brand building.
Report: Integrated marketing communications plan WeveIan Adams
Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/adamsian3/presentation-integrated-marketing-communications-plan
In this report, an integrated communications strategy will be devised for mobile commerce based on the organisation WEVE, who are a joint venture between EE, telefonica (O2) and Vodafone, the three biggest mobile network providers in the UK.
In this report, an integrated communications strategy will be devised for mobile commerce based on the organisation WEVE, who are a joint venture between EE, telefonica (O2) and Vodafone, the three biggest mobile network providers in the UK.
A basic presentation on a project of mine I have had for the last 2 years 'The Quantified Self' A process of collecting as much data in myself as much to better understand my user patterns. This can be from location, to fitness, to coffee consumption.
Meerkat vs. Periscope - Who will win the Mobile streaming fight?Ian Adams
With the rise in streaming apps on mobile devices meerkat vs. periscope are the leaders in the race. This presentation is a comparison and future predictions for these type of services.
Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?Cut-the-SaaS
Discover the transformative power of AI in content creation with our presentation, "Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?" by Puran Parsani, CEO & Editor of Cut-The-SaaS. Learn how AI-generated content is revolutionizing marketing, publishing, education, healthcare, and finance by offering unprecedented efficiency, creativity, and scalability.
Understanding
AI-Generated Content:
AI-generated content includes text, images, videos, and audio produced by AI without direct human involvement. This technology leverages large datasets to create contextually relevant and coherent material, streamlining content production.
Key Benefits:
Content Creation: Rapidly generate high-quality content for blogs, articles, and social media.
Brainstorming: AI simulates conversations to inspire creative ideas.
Research Assistance: Efficiently summarize and research information.
Market Insights:
The content marketing industry is projected to grow to $17.6 billion by 2032, with AI-generated content expected to dominate over 55% of the market.
Case Study: CNET’s AI Content Controversy:
CNET’s use of AI for news articles led to public scrutiny due to factual inaccuracies, highlighting the need for transparency and human oversight.
Benefits Across Industries:
Marketing: Personalize content at scale and optimize engagement with predictive analytics.
Publishing: Automate content creation for faster publication cycles.
Education: Efficiently generate educational materials.
Healthcare: Create accurate content for patients and professionals.
Finance: Produce timely financial content for decision-making.
Challenges and Ethical Considerations:
Transparency: Disclose AI use to maintain trust.
Bias: Address potential AI biases with diverse datasets.
SEO: Ensure AI content meets SEO standards.
Quality: Maintain high standards to prevent misinformation.
Conclusion:
AI-generated content offers significant benefits in efficiency, personalization, and scalability. However, ethical considerations and quality assurance are crucial for responsible use. Explore the future of content creation with us and see how AI is transforming various industries.
Connect with Us:
Follow Cut-The-SaaS on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Medium. Visit cut-the-saas.com for more insights and resources.
Come learn how YOU can Animate and Illuminate the World with Generative AI's Explosive Power. Come sit in the driver's seat and learn to harness this great technology.
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
Everyone knows the power of stories, but when asked to come up with them, we struggle. Either we second guess ourselves as to the story's relevance, or we just come up blank and can't think of any. Unlocking Everyday Narratives: The Power of Storytelling in Marketing will teach you how to recognize stories in the moment and to recall forgotten moments that your audience needs to hear.
Key Takeaways:
Understand Why Personal Stories Connect Better
How To Remember Forgotten Stories
How To Use Customer Experiences As Stories For Your Brand
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
Digital marketing is the art and science of promoting products or services using digital channels to reach and engage with potential customers. It encompasses a wide range of online tactics and strategies aimed at increasing brand visibility, driving website traffic, generating leads, and ultimately, converting those leads into customers.
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AI-Powered Personalization: Principles, Use Cases, and Its Impact on CROVWO
In today’s era of AI, personalization is more than just a trend—it’s a fundamental strategy that unlocks numerous opportunities.
When done effectively, personalization builds trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your users—key factors for business success. However, relying solely on AI capabilities isn’t enough. You need to anchor your approach in solid principles, understand your users’ context, and master the art of persuasion.
Join us as Sarjak Patel and Naitry Saggu from 3rd Eye Consulting unveil a transformative framework. This approach seamlessly integrates your unique context, consumer insights, and conversion goals, paving the way for unparalleled success in personalization.
First Things First: Building and Effective Marketing Strategy
Too many companies (and marketers) jump straight into activation planning without formalizing a marketing strategy. It may seem tedious, but analyzing the mindset of your targeted audiences and identifying the messaging points most likely to resonate with them is time well spent. That process is also a great opportunity for marketers to collaborate with sales leaders and account managers on a galvanized go-to-market approach. I’ll walk you through the methods and tools we use with our clients to ensure campaign success.
Key Takeaways:
-Recognize the critical role of strategy in marketing
-Learn our approach for building an actionable, effective marketing strategy
-Receive templates and guides for developing a marketing strategy
The session includes a brief history of the evolution of search before diving into the roles technology, content, and links play in developing a powerful SEO strategy in a world of Generative AI and social search. Discover how to optimize for TikTok searches, Google's Gemini, and Search Generative Experience while developing a powerful arsenal of tools and templates to help maximize the effectiveness of your SEO initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how search engines work
Be able to find out where your users search
Know what is required for each discipline of SEO
Feel confident creating an SEO Plan
Confidently measure SEO performance
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
Mastering Multi-Touchpoint Content Strategy: Navigate Fragmented User JourneysSearch Engine Journal
Digital platforms are constantly multiplying, and with that, user engagement is becoming more intricate and fragmented.
So how do you effectively navigate distributing and tailoring your content across these various touchpoints?
Watch this webinar as we dive into the evolving landscape of content strategy tailored for today's fragmented user journeys. Understanding how to deliver your content to your users is more crucial than ever, and we’ll provide actionable tips for navigating these intricate challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How today’s users engage with content across various channels and devices.
- The latest methodologies for identifying and addressing content gaps to keep your content strategy proactive and relevant.
- What digital shelf space is and how your content strategy needs to pivot.
With Wayne Cichanski, we’ll explore innovative strategies to map out and meet the diverse needs of your audience, ensuring every piece of content resonates and connects, regardless of where or how it is consumed.
How to Use AI to Write a High-Quality Article that Ranksminatamang0021
In the world of content creation, many AI bloggers have drifted away from their original vision, resulting in low-quality articles that search engines overlook. Don't let that happen to you! Join us to discover how to leverage AI tools effectively to craft high-quality content that not only captures your audience's attention but also ranks well on search engines.
Disclaimer: Some of the prompts mentioned here are the examples of Matt Diggity. Please use it as reference and make your own custom prompts.
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
1. Knowledge and understanding of the Brand
Strategy concepts and theories – CW1
Ian
Adams
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Abstract
Have the core fundamentals changed within brands, how have
new media changed how consumers see brands. This report
explores how a modern brand has developed not its products but
how it represents its self as a brand.
The report will look at the following brand concepts; brand
community, brand identity, brand architecture, brand personality,
emotional aspects to a brand, brand awareness, brand meaning,
brand associations, brand loyalty and Brand experience.
Introduction
The report will comparing definitions of branding concepts
mentioned above by a range of academic authors. These
concepts will then be applied to the brand Kit Kat by Nestle.
Brand Community
A brand community is a specialized, non-geographically bound
community, based on a structured set of social relations among
admirers of a brand. (Muniz & Guinn 2001) The new post-
postmodern branding proposed, suggests that as marketers are
no longer omnipotent, brands have become citizen-artists and that
brands are cultural artifacts through which consumers assert
themselves as individuals in society. (Quinton 2013) The brand
communities are social entities that reflect the situated
embeddedness of brands in the day-to-day lives of consumers
and the ways in which brands connect consumer to brand, and
consumer to consumer. Three essential markers of community
(conscious- ness of kind, rituals and traditions, and moral
responsibility) are present, but differences in their expression
make brand communities something significant in their own right.
(Muniz & Guinn 2001)
Kits Kat is a very unique brand it has a number of big
communities, after the partnership of with Google (JWT, 2013) to
use Kit Kat as the name of the next android operating system. The
brand has seen a change in its once traditional community. This
new tech audience that spans across ages and regions is tech
savvy so they ill be using social media. To relate to the concepts
above Kit Kat, has lead the brands towards a more community
driven approach, if the community has an issue with the product
they can complain as an entity and be responded to.
Brand Identity
The idea that consumers use brands to express their identities has
led many companies to reposition their products from focusing on
functional attributes to focusing on how they fit into a consumer’s
lifestyle. However (Chernev et al. 2011) depicts that brand identity
has deeper meanings then functional attributes It is about the
ethos, aims and values that present a sense of individuality
differentiating the brand. (de Chernatony 1999) Also reference to
(see Appendix 1) shows the components of brand identity; that are
Presentation, positioning, personality, Brand vision/culture and
relationships that drives towards a brands desired positioning and
identity. (de Chernatony 1999)
Kit Kat brand differentiates itself from other chocolate bars
because it places itself within a situation within the consumer life,
‘take a brake’ and ‘have a brake, have a Kit Kat.’ The many
advertisements that Kit Kat shows a range of different audiences
within busy lifestyles and need escapism.
Brand Architecture
(Devlin 2003) explains brand architecture refers to an
organization’s approach to the design and management of its
brand portfolio and the relationship between such brands.
However (Douglas et al. 2012) explains It should clearly define
deeper importance and role of each level of branding, as, for
example, at the corporate, product division, or product brand level,
as well as the interrelation or overlap of branding at each level.
(Petromilli et al. 2002) places structure with the two types of
architecture “house of brands” has a master brand like IBM, Virgin
and “branded house” groups of stand along brands proper and
gamble.
Kit Kat has mix between the two architecture “house of brands”
and “branded house”. Kit Kat is owned by Nestle that has brand
2. groups, then within these groups are a collection of brand
extension. Kit Kat has its ‘4 finger’ ‘2 finger’ and ‘Chunky’ range.
All nestle products have the logo on the packaging to portray the
relationship between each products endorsed values.
Brand personality
Brand personality is a vehicle of consumer self-expression and
can be instrumental in helping a consumer express different
aspects of his or her self (Aaker 2005). Yet Brand personality
defined by (Azoulay & Kapferer 2003) is certainly a key facet of a
brand identity, the current scales of brand personality do not in
fact measure brand personality, but merge a number of
dimensions of brand identity. This is shown within (see Appendix
5) with Kapferer brand identity prism (Aaker 2005) further in study
states humanizing a brand empowers it to play a more central role
in the consumer’s life, potentially enabling the consumer to project
an aspect of his or her self that might be desirable for relationships
he or she seeks.
Kit Kat personality is portrayed through its marketing
commination’s, the content shared throughout social media sites
like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are technology focused,
showing the product in a comedic manner. This lighthearted spirit
reflects in their direct response to people commenting and
tweeting the brand. (see Appendix 9) is a good example of a tweet
that shows of personality, this makes the brand relatable and
likeable.
Emotional aspects
If involvement can be characterized by mild affect, brand
attachment refers to a strong emotional bond (i.e., “hot affect”)
between a consumer and a brand, as evidenced by its three
dimensions—affection, passion, and connection. To be clear
emotional aspects are qualities of brand attachment, brand
experience is not an emotional relationship concept it’s the
interaction between customer and product. Experiences are
sensations, feelings, cognitions, and behavioral responses evoked
by brand-related stimuli. Over time, brand experiences may result
in emotional bonds, but emotions are only one internal outcome of
the stimulation that evokes experiences. (Brakus et al. 2009)
Kit Kat is a chocolate bar so the sensation is the taste; the treat of
the moment develops a passion and an individual connection with
the product. The bar is targeted towards having a brake from the
customer’s busy lifestyle. Because the product fits easily into
consumers day-to-day life and also can find within their friends life
style as the product can be shared.
Brand awareness
Brand awareness indicates customer ’s capability to recall or
recognize a brand. (Aaker & Joachimsthaler 2000) Brand
awareness according (Aaker, 1996) is the first step in the overall
customer experience. It is the first step to understanding the
brand, at this stage it is merely being aware that is exists. This can
be seen at (see Appendix 8). As explained earlier brand
architecture can help to further expose the brand if a ‘Branded
house’ approach has been taken. (Aaker & Joachimsthaler 2000)
explains further, every exposure of the brand in one context
provides visibility that enhances brand awareness in all contexts.
The significant positive effects of both brand identity and
identification suggest that companies should invest on brand
identity and consumer identification. Instead of merely
communicating brands for the purpose of brand awareness, brand
investment should focus on according strong ‘identity’ meaning to
consumers, so that it facilitates consumer search for consumer–
brand bond. (He et al. 2012)
Based on this customer based brand equity conceptualization, the
essential dimensions of brand equity are brand awareness, brand
associations, perceived quality and brand loyalty (Aaker &
Joachimsthaler 2000)
Kit Kat is a mass-market product and well known within the UK
market even if it isn’t the front of mind chocolate bar like Cadbury’s
or Galaxy. However with effective marketing communications the
brand has positioned itself as a quick snack. Awareness is high
and partners with technology companies are only going to further
increase this awareness across markets.
Brand meaning
This meaning can be defined by a number of attributes that means
most to a consumer of the brand. History is just one aspect of the
consumer's brand experience. There is a process of interplay
between the past and the present in contextualizing brand
meaning, just as there is between managerial intent and consumer
action. In choosing to consume a particular product or specific
brand, consumers have the right to construct what a brand means.
At this fundamental level, therefore, the co-construction of brand
experience directs brand management (Schembri 2009)
Kit Kat branding meaning for a consumer can vary from customer
to customer as they will have different symbols experiences and
depending on how successful or strong they where it will mean
3. stronger deeper meaning. If a customer for example if a group of
customers experienced an outdoor campaign where they won a
free nexus phone they would have a better experience, this would
help them relate this these different values intern developing a
deeper meaning. Campaign can be seen at this reference (Yong,
2013)
Brand associations
Models of associations in memory attempt to explain two cognitive
events. Two types of models can be distinguished within the HAM
tradition, connectionist models and Bayesian models. Human
Associative Memory (HAM) models and adaptive learning models
describe two unique approaches to teach the brand associations
that are subsequently used to make predictions about
consumption benefit. Both types of models represent declarative
knowledge as a network of concept nodes connected by
associative links. These models assume that the learning of
associations between one cue and an outcome is not dependent
on the presence of other cues and their associations with the
same outcome. That is, learning is cue independent.
Connectionist models employ a simple Hebbian or “coincident
activation” learning, each connection is strengthened whenever a
cue and an outcome co-occur(Janiszewski 2002)
As seen in (Aaker, 1996) model of Customer Experience Brand
association is seen to be set two in the journey after Brand
awareness, this is when the customer understands the brand on a
cognitive level taking into account associated stimuli to build a
perception of the brand, this leads to ‘Perceived Quality’.
Kit Kat still relies on nostalgia, because it is well knit to British
society. But with new Google partnership is consumers will build
associations with android long after the next update comes out of
operating system. According to Adweek ‘Andriod Kit Kat’ will
appear on 50million bars (Heine, 2013) Other connotations are
colour red, two/four fingers, unwrapping tin foil and for some it
might be the brand extensions like the during Easter with special
editions.
Brand loyalty
(Aaker, 1996) explains that the last step of the costumers
experience is brand loyalty (see Appendix 8). This step indicates
that the customer has understood all what the brand means down
to the core values, relates to the brand. With this there are two key
behavioral outcomes; customer satisfaction and loyalty
(Chandrashekaran et al. 2007; Oliver 1993) Brand personality can
provide differentiation, increases preference, and enhances trust
and loyalty. Consumer satisfaction affects loyalty. When a
consumer feels good about the relationship and appreciates the
product or brand, a high level of commitment and loyalty results
(Anderson 1993)
Self-image congruence is found to enhance brand loyalty for
consumers who are motivated to conform, but not for those who
are driven to escape. Alternatively, product knowledge is found to
enhance brand loyalty for escapism-motivated consumers, but
inhibits brand loyalty for consumers who are bound to conform.
(Labrecque et al. 2011)
Kit Kat is a within both confectionery and biscuit market, there are
a wide range substitutes so loyalty is low. After all the rich
experience and history with the brand, customers still question do
they need a chocolate bar? Also Mintel reports (Soininen, 2013)
states that loyalty is low across the Biscuit market as people
during economic times tend to go towards the promotions and
supermarket own brands because of the price incentives.
Brand experience
Brand experiences vary in strength and intensity; that is some
brand experiences are stronger or more intense than others. As
with product experiences, brand experiences also vary in valence;
more positive than others or even negative. (Brakus et al. 2009)
Moreover some brand experiences occur spontaneously without
much reflection and are short-lived. Over time, these long-lasting
brand experiences, stored in consumer memory, should affect
consumer satisfaction and loyalty (Oliver, 1980) Brand experience
based on the affection to a brand this can be triggered by Stimuli
may include; “touch and feel,” “appeal to different senses,
smells
nice and is visually warm”
fun,” “refreshed,” “inspired,” “nostalgia”.
(Brakus et al. 2009) as seen in (see Appendix 7) shows the
outputs of a brand experience; Sensory, Affective, Intellectual and
behavioral this can all be effected differently from the above
stimuli that will have a direct impact on the satisfaction a customer
will have.
Kit Kat had a lack of brand experience because there is no in-
store or extended periods with the product. The one area the
brand has invested in with JWT the creative agency is online with
the use of social media platforms. With competitions where
customers who have bought a chocolate bar have a chance to win
a free phone. (See Appendix 10) This is good because it drives
interaction within the brand and the community. If they win they
share with the their friends on twitter further adding different
emotional stimuli associated with the brand.
4. Conclusion
Overall Kit Kat is a small biscuit chocolate bar, but still has a range
of interesting dynamics to the brand. Key finding are each
individual has a say, communities drive change and it up to the
brand to use this data to improve and adapt. Identity is key within
a crowded marketplace; going back to the core product function is
key. The brand architecture needs to incorporate cross brand
integration to use the core values of each brand. People believe
people so brand personality can be used to add value, good
example is the use if twitter and interacting with other brands and
people. Kit Kat is using the emotional aspects, for example
escapism from everyday life; this shows they understand the
modern person. The partnership with Google has given Kit Kat the
opportunity to change its brand meaning with its new tech savvy
consumers. It also lets the brand build new associations with
android that will have strong long connections even when a new
update is released. Loyalty is low because of economic times,
however by adding extra value to a chocolate bar away from price
incentives, this can build an overall better brand experience. Kit
Kat has started its journey towards new media ventures, the only
issue is that the focus is off the chocolate and towards using the
Google platform. Have Google got the better end of the deal.
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Appendixes
Appendix 1
(de Chernatony 1999)
Appendix 4
(Petromilli et al. 2002)
Appendix 5
(Kapferer 1992, 1998)
Appendix 6