Advertising

SAMPLE BRAND QUESTIONS (AND ANSWERS)

1. How do you value a brand?

The Brands and Branding section of the Warc Topics Index includes a category entitled "Brands Value and Purpose".

The search below on Business Source Complete will yield excellent information on the topic as well. Here we are searching for the term(s) brand, branding, or brands in the abstract or summary of the article. A variation in the endings of that term is requested by using the *. We then combine that term with EITHER value or valuation (again using the asterisk to search for any ending variation of valu--,  or the term ROI (return on investment). In this example, the term "brand"and then either the term "valu*" or "ROI" must show up in the abstract as well.

Search screen in Business Source Complete

2. What is the halo effect of a brand in a brand extension?

Searching in the library database Business Source Complete is a good choice. The term "halo effect" is actually a subject term in this database. Combining this term (in the subject field) with the truncated term brand* (for brands, branding or brand), will yield targeted and precise results.

3. What has been written about the emotional attachment to particular brands?

The WARC database would be a good place to start. Use terms like: "Engagement, emotion, attachment" and/or "Effectiveness". Business Source Complete and ABI/Inform would also be appropriate databases to try with these kinds of terms.

4. Are Generations X or Y brand loyal?

The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) database contains a section called "Instant Backgrounds". These background pages contain aggregated information from trade associations, trade journals, market research and other sources on products and markets. Click on the Generation X or Generation Y Instant Background for detailed profiles of these demographic groups.

For additional information and articles on the topic, search the Factiva database using the terms: generation x  and loyal* (the asterisk is a wild card and will retrieve "loyal", "loyalty").

WARC also has a section in its Topic Index called "Consumers and Audiences" and within that section is a subcategory called "Millennials & Youth"

What Is a Brand?

Various Brand Tradenames and Symbols          

Brand (brand name)   A tradename used to identify a specific product, manufacturer, or distributor. The sale of most branded products began in the UK at the turn of the century; some, such as Bovril (Trademark) and Horlicks (Trademark), were mid-Victorian, introduced when manufacturers wanted to distinguish their goods from those of their competitors. As consumers became more sophisticated, manufacturers placed more emphasis upon promoting their brands directly to consumers (rather than to distributors), spending considerable sums on advertising the high quality of their products. Manufacturers believe that if they invest in the quality of their brands they will build up a brand image, to which consumers will respond by asking for their goods by their brand names and by being willing to pay a premium for them . 

"Brand" A Dictionary of Business and Management. Ed. Jonathan Law. Oxford University Press, 2009. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 

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