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  • zyakaira 7:40 am on July 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: African American, Bank of America, , Branding, , Yahoo   

    BankAm – Bank of Opportunity? 

    zyakaira notes: BofA earlier in Feb launched this campaign to reestablish its unique Trust along with a campaign from its wealth unit at US Trust. However, BofA needs to refocus based on  market realities ( see BofA: We need a plan ) and needs to increase visibility of this campaign. The first videos of the ad campaign included an African American family enjoying shopping for winter gear in a retail sore, not so boring – you have to see it to believe it. It’s large online campaign at Yahoo was also featured in Yahoo’s results but that is obviously not working!
    There is a small start for the rebranding of the combined corporate business of Bank of America Merrill Lynch designed by The Brand Union(WPP). And the bull may not be out of sight for long. BofA officials, shortly after the merger,announced the bull will still be used in marketing efforts for the domestic wealth management and brokerage business, to be called Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. 

    In Feb, Bank of America announced “Bank of Opportunity,” the theme of its new brand positioning. Supported by the bank’s largest advertising campaign to date, which will debut during ABC’s telecast of the 79th Academy Awards(R), the new brand positioning reflects Bank of America’s unique role in helping individuals, businesses and communities around the world realize opportunities to achieve their goals.

    “We see the opportunities that our customers see, and our ability to help them realize those opportunities defines our success,” said Kenneth D. Lewis, chairman and chief executive officer, Bank of America. “Bank of Opportunity articulates a powerful value proposition that acknowledges our unique ability to understand and anticipate customer needs, to develop products and services that meet those needs and then to deliver for the customer better than any other financial institution in the country.”

    Providing Opportunity to All Customers

    The new brand positioning reflects Bank of America’s business strengths and global presence, highlighting the company’s unmatched ability for enabling all its customers to achieve their goals – from buying a first home to planning for retirement, from starting a business to expanding into new markets.

    For the more than 55 million consumers and small businesses it serves, Bank of America continues to develop new customer-inspired solutions such as the Keep the Change(TM) savings program (http://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/index.php?s=press_kit&item=16), the Business 24/7(TM) (http://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=7442) portfolio for small businesses and the free ($0) online equity trade offering (http://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/index.php?s=press_kit&item=62).

    For corporate clients, Bank of America plays a leading role in many of the world’s largest transactions – including the two largest leveraged buyouts in history – reflecting world-class corporate banking resources and expertise that help businesses grow and prosper.

    As a leading community partner, Bank of America’s 10-year $750 billion community lending and investment goal (here) and $1.5 billion philanthropic commitment inspire new economic opportunities that help communities nationwide grow stronger and more vibrant.

    “‘Bank of Opportunity’ is the natural progression of our brand, and reflects how our heritage and our strong competitive position drive what we do today,” said Anne M. Finucane, chief marketing officer, Bank of America. 

    U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management today announced the launch of its national advertising campaign, which spotlights the changing profile of today’s wealthy individuals and families. The $25 million campaign marks the first major advertising initiative for U.S. Trust since its acquisition by Bank of America Corporation earlier this year.

    The brand-building effort represents the most extensive private wealth management advertising campaign that either legacy organization has ever undertaken. National and local print and broadcast advertisements will debut across the nation beginning on October 8.

    “As one of the leading private wealth management providers in the U.S., Bank of America recognizes that an increasing share of our nation’s wealth is self-made,” said Brian Moynihan, president of Bank of America Global Wealth & Investment Management. “In launching a brand visibility campaign of significant magnitude, U.S.
    Trust seeks to convey to clients, prospects and the broader marketplace that it understands – and is uniquely qualified to address — the needs, motivations and values associated with this new face of wealth.”

    “The company’s research-driven campaign illustrates how U.S. Trust maximizes opportunities that its clients, the architects of their own success, create for themselves, their families, their businesses and their legacies,” said Anne Finucane, Bank of America chief marketing officer. Acknowledging the increasing number of high net worth clients who have earned their wealth through their own careers, Finucane added, “the advertising creates a connection with clients by demonstrating an understanding of their values.”

    Supporting the company’s overall ‘Bank of Opportunity’ positioning, the U.S. Trust marketing campaign was developed after extensive discussions with clients and U.S. Trust wealth advisors, as well as external sources that shared a range of perspectives on today’s changing wealth landscape.

    Launching the Campaign

    U.S. Trust will support its brand positioning through an integrated marketing campaign, which includes a mix of national and local print, television, and radio advertising. The U.S. Trust campaign is expected to run in nearly 50 markets across the country. Boston-based Hill Holliday worked with Bank of America to develop the brand positioning and advertising campaign.

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  • zyakaira 5:29 pm on July 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Branding, Personal Brands   

    The June Report 

    In June, Three of my sites have ramped up to pretty popular positions hitting the Top 100K in India and nearing Top 700K sites in the US

    17 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    While 3 new sites at http://zyaada.ushttp://twitterone.net andhttp://twitterone.info also achieved great traction in this month#june0914 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    These three web sites have reused articles from the US, India and Social Marketing sites to showcase in a more comml template#June0913 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    Thus I have a composite 50K users going through my articles daily, with Twitter creating the maximum referrals from timely updates #June0911 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    #Bangalore Display this SMS and get a 20% discount at the Innovative Film City…ask us and we’ll send the SMS to as many of you as needed.11 minutes ago from API

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    The new post sites at http://zyaada.info andhttp://markets.posterous.com are a must add for those looking for specific value in analysis10 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    and the mobile sites at http://zyada.mobi,http://newadvantages.mobi and http://socialone.mobi get you the analysis in one go on your mobile9 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    Twitter accounts hav e been converting well, reaching more than a 1000 followers in more than 2-3 cases, all in June8 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    There was more on Infrastructure, the latest Wealth report and the ways to tweet to success that hit the spot in #June 095 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    Apart from the Indian hospitality sector at http://zyaada.info andhttp://advantages.us featured in our Retail Lifestyle writings#June095 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    There was more to read from Bollywood and Hollywood, while today’s budget report showed the markets disinterest #June094 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    If you haven’t already do refresh yousrself, esp with the prices in Manhattan, and the new Pepsi and Burger King stories #June093 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    Many thanks to all of you for being regular and avid readers, as time on site in each case went up 3-4 times esp. athttp://advantages.us2 minutes ago from TweetDeck

    Innovative Film City continues to do well, the summer rush is off and the discounts are in (till 7th of August)#June09less than 20 seconds ago from TweetDeck

     
  • zyakaira 6:13 pm on June 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Branding, Global Brands, , , ,   

    IPL comparing with the world's best sports brands 

    zyakaira notes: it’s here NFL (Superbowl ) $4.5 billion, IPL $1.6 billion Watch out for edition 3 of the IPL! and I’m still backing the New York Giants and i’d be finding out on my own and publishing it in a year on this and Wimbledon and Olympics
     
     
     
    The NFL is the world’s strongest sports brand according to Sports Pro Magazine. The National Football League, not surprisingly, is valued at a whopping $4.5 billion. That’s a little more than Major League Baseball, about double the value of the NBA, but still probably less than Larry King’s per show kitty.
     
    In Sports Pro’s recent “most valuable brands survey”, the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket competition amazingly featured amongst the biggest brands too. Despite being only two years old, the IPL is valued at US$1.6 billion, or just under the cost of Mr. King’s monthly hairdressing bill. That’s when you know you’ve made it folks.
     
    via The Sports Brand Review – News – NFL is the world’s biggest sports brand.

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  • zyakaira 6:26 pm on June 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Branding, , , , Sports Marketing   

    The new Pepsi logos 

    You already heard, and it wasn’t shaking twitter and facebook..but the Tropicana Orange juice logo just got withdrawn and back to the traditional one with the orange. And the ‘Marketrazzi’ like zyaada used email and (my thought waves) to push the envelope and tell YUM and PEP that the new brand designs were flawed. 

    There has been a lot of similar talk of the new smiling face of Pepsi (see below) and not so much of their social strategy ( remember sobe diet , it was a big twitter on superbowl time with gator) They are obviously under fire for the social web has empowered voices that were killed by the health revolution ( I am told, it is still on at Pepsi, because of my compatriot CEO Ms. Indra Nooyi ) 

    here is an extract directly from the <a href=’http://brandinsightblog.com/2009/06/05/a-new-spin-on-the-pepsi-logo/’&gt; bnbranding.com team </a>:

    pepsi-happy-faces

    Great design speaks for itself. You don’t need a physics thesis to explain it. It just works.

    My 11 year-old daughter likes the new Pepsi logo. (Says it makes her happy.)  And now that I’ve read the exhaustive brief, I know why…

    It’s a smiley face! An overanalyzed, underwhelming, million dollar smiley face. It even comes in a variety of grin sizes. (Apparently regular ol’ Pepsi gets a smaller grin than the newer versions of Pepsi, like Pepsi Max. Whatever that is.)

    Pepsi’s going to spend more than a billion dollars redoing all their packaging, vending machines, trucks, POP materials and everything else. The new logo’s going to be EVERYWHERE!

    So I’m kinda glad Arnell changed the old wavy logo into a smiley face. I’m just not sure about their methods.

     

    Actually, it was Pepsi and it still looks like a very soft target out on the web but this brand insight has changed my moind, though i still remain all things coke at heart. 

    more from the blokes at <a href=’brandinsightblog.com’> brandinsightblog.com </a>

    The 27-page design brief entitled “Breathtaking” reads like a scientific white paper loaded with marketingese and unprecedented levels of highly creative BS. In fact, Fast Company Magazine called it branding lunacy…  

    “Every page of this document is more ridiculous than the last ending with a pseudo-scientific explanation of how Pepsi’s new branding identity will manifest it’s own gravitational pull.”

    The L.A. Times was equally critical:

    “Behold, then, the scattered and burning debris field of one of corporate America’s most misbegotten image makeovers… According to the brief, the new Pepsi logo lies along a trajectory of human consciousness that includes in its arc the Vastu Shastra, a 3,000-year-old Hindu architectural guide; Pythagoras (the Golden Section); the Roman architect Vitruvius; the Fibonacci series; Descartes; and Corbusier.”

    Oooookay.    

    Get a load of  it at:  http://drop.io/pepsipdf/asset/pepsi-gravitational-field-pdf  

    Well, i can guess the criticism directed at me as well, because i don’t like to muddy waters when someone else is equally bright and so there is less of authorship in my blogs than elsewhere, ( it also helps me concentrate on zyaada ‘s social strategy and branding exercises and attend to my work..but i believe that even if they do change the logo back it wouldn’t hurt to love this logo.  

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  • zyakaira 10:40 am on June 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: advantages, Branding, Burger King, Creating Brands, , , , ,   

    Burger King campaign targets all groups, regardless 

    zyakaira notes: this should now probably be a bank campaign punch strategy..an all you can eat account with safe underwriting ;) ..if bank of america far behind ( they had a great in-store ad just a few months back, the day obama got elected!

    In an effort to keep making horrible ads that have nothing to do with whatever Burger King’s brand identity is they’ve come out with this pile of crap:

    Let’s not forget their past insulting work here, Mexican get sizzled, and here, Slap that booty.

    Obviously the only branding strategy Burger King can come up with is to be controversial. Brilliant.

    identity guru writes: So I’m out of the Burger King loop. They obviously want people in the business to write negatively about them because what women is gonna run out and buy this sandwich now? And do men really think they’ll get a blow job? No, the only thing Burger King wants is press, so stop giving it to them, they don’t deserve it.

    Ads are meant to do one thing…sell product, period.

    via Branding Blog

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