Tag archives: branding online

Online advertising works! (at least on Babycenter.com)

Babycenter.com has released a research demonstrating that online advertising can be an effective brand-building tool. iMediaConnection presents the news, giving a few more details on the campaigns that have been monitored.

File under: branding online, online ad effectiveness

Levi’s Europe autumn branding campaign

As reported today on Revolution Magazine, Levi’s Europe has upgraded its website with games, new products and even an ‘image-mangling’ engine to promote the brand’s Teenage Kicks line and its new autumn product range. In Levi’s mind the goal of the Web site is to appeal and to retain the brand’s core target audience, 15- to 24-year-old girls and guys. The Web site is available in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. I like the graphics, but I’ve found navigation rather confusing.

File under: branding online, games, levi's europe, retain target audience

Visa gets ready for the Paralympic

141XM has launched a new Web site promoting Visa International’s sponsorship of Paralympic Summer Games next year in Athens. The Web site is highly accessible and, for example, contents can be synthesized and read aloud by special Web browsers for the blind. Read more on AdWeek.

File under: accessibility, branding online, paralympic, summer games, visa

Experience Mercedes-Benz online

Mercedes-Benz has just launched two microsites in 18 countries and 20 languages to promote two cars: Viano and Vito. Syzygy is the agency that has developed the German auto-maker new online presence and features on its Web site a press release commenting the branding campaign on the Internet. Sorry the press release is in German, I’ll do my best to translate the key points… The project has been divided in two phases. In the introduction the visitors of the Vito microsite receive a first impression from the new car and an overview of the variety of the new transporter series. Starting from September 6th, the second phase will begin with further information and interactive features. The sites offer background informations, interactive offers, animations and interviews. Furthermore users can download brochures, agree upon a test run or get in touch with a local dealer. In particular I like the idea of presenting inteviews with the people that have actually projected the car, I feel like it adds a human touch to the online experience. The Viano microsite features an emotional approach as well, in order to target different prospect groups, appealing both to individualists and families.

File under: auto-maker, branding online, emotive approach, mercedes-benz

Automakers advertising online

It seems like automakers believe in the Internet potentials to increase brand awareness and indirectly to generate more sales. In these days I’ve found two articles talking about Ford and General Motors efforts to take advantage of the Web to regain market share. On iMediaConnection Sara Wilson talks about “All new 2003 Ford Expedition” a new campaign created to draw attention and make people interact with the brand. The campaign has been run with different ads and features on the three world’s main portals: Yahoo! Msn.com and Aol.com because, as Kristen Bergmann, Digital Media Director and Senior Partner at J. Walter Thompson explains:

“We felt that we would reach most of the Internet population if we were to choose these three [portals], and they all happened to be existing partners of ours that we knew could deliver”.

On the other side we have General Motors who has just launched an online banner campaign to drive qualified traffic to the newly relaunched GMBuyPower.com. As DMNews reports, Flash-enabled banners have been developed by Zentropy Partners, with skyscrapers, horizontals and standard formats in different sizes and 120 creative executions. And Steve Woolford, executive vice president and worldwide managing director at Zentropy explains:

“The beauty of this advertising is that it links up that part of the BuyPower site that most people are interested in. If someone’s not considering a GM vehicle, it’s silly to give them the tool to shop. If they’re not aware, we must make them aware. If someone’s not considering, we must make them.”

File under: auto makers, branding online, ford, general motors, online advertising

A new era for Sponsorship

The Internet enables marketers to translate offline sponsorship activities online, as well as to insert unique aspects. This is the introductory statement by Joseph Jaffe in his latest column on iMediaConnection. It offers a very good overview on how online sponsorship work and on how they can be used as a very powerful tool for branding on the Internet. There’s also an explanation of the GM Chevrolet case study.

File under: branding online, GM Chevrolet, online sponsorship

Automakers drive online

Do you want to boost awareness and consideration and, by the chance, are you an automaker? Then advertise online! As Adage says today, the automobile industry is increasingly investing in online advertising. It’s the case of Toyota, but also of Volvo, Lexus, Audi and, of course, of BMW. A part from simply advertising, automakers and automarketers are focusing more and more on Web communication in general, by setting up Web site to appeal consumers engaging them in a unique experience with the brand and with the car. I believe cars can be considered to some extent an “experience good”, so it’s important for automakers to make people feel how a car is and how the driving experience could be. It’s an emotional approach to online communication, that more and more brands are trying to create, in a way, it’s a form of advertainment.

File under: auto makers, branding online, building awareness, emotional branding

Skyy Relaunch Goes To The Movies

Skyy Vodka yesterday relaunched Skyy.com, hoping to better align its online presence with its film-centric advertising and events strategies. Quoted on MediaDailyNews Skyy public relations manager Sue Hearn, explains:

“Our brand has been based around film-related activities for some time now. Given the technology that’s out there at this point, the web is one of the best vehicles to communicate that brand identity to consumers.”

. I immediately surfed on the Web site… it’s nice, very emotional, it makes you want to have a drink… maybe not exactly a vodka, given the fact that now it’s early afternoon Btw the thing I liked the most is the possibility to choose you lounge music while browsing the web site. There are about twelve tunes to pick, from Bebel Gilberto to Ursula 1000.

File under: branding online, lounge music, online presence, skyy vodka

Online Branding: The Next Generation

Online, a strong brand is vital. This is the key statement by Gary Stein in his today’s column on ClickZ. I really enjoyed what he wrote since he pointed out four important and useful elements that are often forgotten or worse, underestimated, when taking a brand online.

File under: brand building, branding online, personalization

IAB: here comes the branding campaign

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today launches a new integrated branding campaign aimed at helping marketers understand how they can best employ interactive advertising to more effectively reach their business goals. The first wave of the integrated advertising campaign will appear in print, outdoor and online publications beginning May 28. The campaign profiles marketing executives who have helped their brands become “superheroes” by tapping the potency of interactive in tandem with an overall marketing plan. Read on the press release on IAB’s Web site.

File under: branding online, IAB, industry news