If you are responsible for a country or destination brand, read on. As cheap air travel and the package tour (as well as the devaluation of the Spanish Peseta and the abolition of currency controls in the UK) helped jump start international travel in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the world was still a fairly … Continue reading »
Back in June 2011, Google launched Google+ to counter the increasingly powerful and influential Facebook. According to Google, 40 million people have signed up for Google+ which equates to about 8 million new users a month. Not a bad effort but a long way to go to reach the 800 million Facebook users. The launch … Continue reading »
Because of the massive increase in advertising noise and clutter, it’s getting increasingly difficult for advertisers to capture the attention of consumers with traditional print ads. You’d expect therefore that Malaysian advertising agencies would increasingly push the creative envelope, to develop material that makes consumers stop, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest. Sadly, and for … Continue reading »
Following the completion of a research project carried out in conjunction with TNS, the Asia Pacific edition of the globally respected marketing magazine, Campaign Asia has named Sony as the top brand in Asia. According to the study the top 4 positions all went to power house North Asian brands – Sony retained its position … Continue reading »
In today’s always on world, an important part of any brand strategy is the communications strategy but if Asian brands are going to be taken seriously, Asian CEOs must understand that times have changed and that we are living in a new world order. And in that new world order, the success of a brand … Continue reading »
The destination branding rewards are high in terms of investment, jobs, development, tourism, exports, domestic and even international influence. But building destination brands is harder today than ever before. There are over 1,000 national and regional economic development agencies in South East Asia alone and the ongoing global economic crisis, political interference and a fragmented, … Continue reading »
The three most common mistakes companies make when embarking on a branding exercise are 1) They carry out the wrong research or research the wrong things 2) They believe it is a creative driven exercise 3) They begin the project with a creative driven communications campaign The Philippines Department of Tourism has managed to get … Continue reading »
I read here that the Maldives is starting a major rebranding initiative. The republic of the Maldives is an island nation in the Indian Ocean and consists of about 26 atolls with about 1,200 islands spread over approximately 90,000 square kilometers. Of those islands, about 200 are inhabited. Its area and population of 300,000 make … Continue reading »
The Gap logo story has been playing out for almost a week now. At the time of writing the long term impact on the brand is unknown. What is known is that the reengineering of the Gap logo has cost a lot of money that need not have been spent. In their book Measuring Brand … Continue reading »
The announcement yesterday by RIM that it will release a tablet device in early 2011 may be the death knell for the iPad. The new device comes with a 7-inch multi touch touchscreen and a new operating system developed by newly acquired developer QNX. Called the PlayBook (I’m not sure why they came up with … Continue reading »
