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Reimagining the Audi Brand for the Future

The automotive world recently witnessed a significant shift in Audi’s visual identity. According to a report from The Verge, the luxury car manufacturer unveiled a fresh, simplified logo design tailored to the Chinese market, representing a strategic move toward a more flexible, forward-thinking image.

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This Audi new logo sheds excess detail in favour of clean lines and subtle refinement. The company is aligning its branding strategy with evolving market demands, making its look more adaptable to screens, digital interfaces, and the ever-changing preferences of a younger, tech-savvy audience. The timing is crucial as Audi ramps up its e-mobility lineup, highlighting the importance of sleek, modern visual elements that resonate not only on physical vehicles but throughout digital ecosystems.

For businesses worldwide, Audi’s rebrand sends a clear message: adapting one’s visual language can be a powerful way to remain relevant, innovative, and appealing to new generations of consumers. This move illustrates that thoughtful, intentional branding can help position a company for long-term success in rapidly evolving global markets.

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tags: branding, automotive
categories: branding, advertising
Friday 12.13.24
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Attract Premium Customers with Branding Strategies

Many business owners need to realise the immense power of strategic branding. But branding lays the foundation for marketing success by attracting your ideal clients.

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Branding is more than just a logo or visual identity. It is expressing what makes your business uniquely valuable. Branding shapes perceptions of your expertise and why clients should choose you.

With clarity on what you stand for, branding enables you to connect emotionally with those you seek to serve. You build relationships with clients who share your values and respond to messaging tailored just for them.

Powerful branding conveys the distinctive value you offer high-end clients. It elevates you above competitors by speaking directly to the aspirations and needs of your niche.

From visuals to tone of voice, branding cues prestige and exclusivity. Strategic positioning attracts premium clients by reflecting their preferences back at them.

Yet many businesses need to dedicate time and investment to intentional branding. This leaves significant ROI untapped, from boosted sales to improved customer loyalty.

When your branding strategy resonates with those you strive to serve, you become the obvious choice for those high-value clients. Brand clarity is the key to unlocking growth.

Make sure to pick this low-hanging fruit. Partner with pros to build branding that makes an impact and sustains real competitive advantage. Dominate your niche by showing ideal clients you understand them like no one else.

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tags: branding, advertising
categories: branding
Wednesday 10.09.24
Posted by Bart Radka
 

The Fluid Brand: Flexibility Is Key in a Changing World

Brands need to remain flexible in order to grow and adapt in the fast-paced global economy of today. Your brand strategy must be continuously improved, repurposed, and redesigned in order to achieve this.

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One of the most important partners when it comes to making the required turns is an advertising agency. The expectations and values of consumers change quickly.

Business models are instantly disrupted by tech trends. Brands must be flexible in order to connect in ever-changing contexts.

To adapt messaging, experiences, and designs to new needs, collaborate closely with your agency. Work together to develop innovations that convey enduring brand values and realign with audiences.

Adopt an attitude of brand agility. Continue to move forward by regularly refreshing your brand with innovative ideas and consumer insights.

The specialised knowledge of an agency makes necessary brand pivots easier. Even when the definition of success evolves, their strategic, creative, and analytical skills aid in achieving brand goals and objectives.

If you want to know when and how to improve your brand, trust the experience of your agency. They find growth prospects through purpose-driven messaging or new market opportunities.

Maintain a balance between change and continuity in your partnership. Rethink brand expressions while keeping true to your roots. Meet today's needs without losing sight of tomorrow.

Brands need to stay flexible because consumer behaviour is changing so quickly. Working with an agency gives you the insight, experience, and flexibility to strategically innovate your brand.

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tags: branding, advertising
categories: branding
Tuesday 08.13.24
Posted by Bart Radka
 

3 Branding Lessons From Culinary Superstars

Call it the curse of celebrity: When your personal brand rises so high, it overshadows your creations. This isn’t a problem for some of the world’s biggest entrepreneurial chefs.

Speaking at an Advertising Week panel discussion the other day called “Chefs as Brands,” Mario Batali, Dominique Ansel and Daniel Boulud didn’t spend time complaining about their name recognition. Instead, the culinary superstars--accompanied by moderator Adam Sachs of the Tasting Table--praised the notoriety as an opportunity.

“The brand should be an extension of yourself,” says Ansel, owner of the eponymous New York City-based bakery and the creator of the famed cronut. “It should be completely your personality and what you believe in.”

For Boulud, the owner of various restaurants across the country including Café Boulud in New York and Bar Boulud in Boston, entwining your personal brand with your business can pay dividends. “It’s an advantage to have your name give you business.” He adds that every aspect of a restaurant and brand is personal--and it should be. “We’re each our own personal entity. Our brand should reflect who we are and what we believe in.”

Still, growing a restaurant into a food empire requires more than a larger-than-life personality in the kitchen. Here are their top growth tips:

Know when to say ‘no.’ A chef can’t be in more than one kitchen at once. “I don’t go to every meeting or worry about every little thing,” says Boulud. “But I am in constant contact with the chef all the time.”

Hire well and delegate. For Batali, every employee has something to bring to the team, and he wants to harness that. “With 2,400 employees comes an incredible wealth of talent looking to get involved,” says the cookbook author and restaurateur. “It means I don’t have to be the smartest person in the room all the time.”

Seek efficiencies. This doesn’t mean that he talks to every single one at the same time, though. “I like meetings of three or four people,” says Batali. “That’s where I do my best work.”

But let’s be real here: If the food wasn’t any good, any amount of branding--be it personal or otherwise--wouldn’t help much. Food is what truly sells a restaurant. “Regardless of trend or fashion,” says Batali. “What transcends everything else is the cuisine.”

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tags: branding, design
categories: branding
Thursday 12.22.22
Posted by Bart Radka
 

What allows the Brand to grow?

Brand growth - boost your business

Every brand needs constant growth for a few reasons. One of them is obviously higher profit. Whatever is your main reason to seek opportunities for your business, you still need to know what encourages brand growth. The knowledge will help you focus on actions and operations that are crucial and profitable. Here's what makes the brand grow.

Brand differentiation and distinctiveness 

There is a rule in marketing that is repeated over and over again like a mantra. If you want to have a successful brand, you need to make it different, or even better, distinct. What does it mean? A brand, in order to grow, has to stand out from the crowd of others. It has to be recognisable, needs to offer something unique and spring to the customers’ minds the minute they need to buy a product or service. Only distinctiveness and differentiation (or one or the other) support brand growth.

Brand availability

The brand grows when the products are sold to more and more customers every month or year. To make sure it will happen (and your audience will expand), you need to secure the brand’s availability and visibility. What good does it do to you when your brand is well-strategized, and you have put the effort in its creation, promotion and introduction on the new markets, but you have forgotten to make it available? The customers will buy those products they can find without any effort. No one will spend hours searching for a brand they heard of once or twice. If it’s not in front of my eyes, I’m not looking for it - that is the customers’ approach.

Brand growth and advertisement

If you want your brand to grow, you need to make it available and well-known to your customers. That’s when a good advertisement takes up the reins. Properly created ads will pump up your business and bring you profit. The advertisement gives some useful tools if you don’t know, e.g., how to measure brand growth.

Those who live and breathe the brand

More or less, every brand that is not entirely new on the market has its own zealots - the biggest fans who buy products, support the brand and advocate for its actions. Those are the people that can bring you, new customers, by means of word-of-mouth marketing or simply by increasing your reach online. Find those enthusiasts, those regular customers, and take good care of them. It will undoubtedly pay off in the form of a growing and thriving brand. 

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tags: advertising, branding
categories: advertising, branding
Monday 10.31.22
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Traditional and digital advertising - which one is better?

Traditional and digital advertising - which one is better?

When you manage a business, to earn money, first, you need to spend them. Without a doubt, investing in advertising is essential. Fortunately, it pays off. But what kind of advertising is more effective - traditional or digital? Take into consideration the benefits and the problems connected with these two options and choose what is best for your company.

Traditional advertising

Sometimes operating online is not enough. Such is the case with hosting special promoting events. Only in real life, your guests have an opportunity to use their senses to familiarise themselves with what your company has to offer. Operating locally, you can take care of maintaining strong business relationships with your loyal clients. Face-to-face interaction is a vital issue. Additionally, not everyone uses the Internet, and there still is a big group of people left to whom you should aim traditional advertising. If your target audience is, for example, the elderly, it is better to use traditional advertising, such as an ad in a newspaper. 

Unfortunately, not every one of the traditional forms is durable. Look at billboards, for instance. They can be easily destroyed by the weather. Leaflets, on the other hand, are often treated as rubbish. 

Digital advertising

Promoting your services or products on the Internet is very beneficial. Online, your advertising can be widespread easily. Then, there is a greater chance of being noticed and remembered. Since so many people are constantly using social media, digital advertising on such platforms helps you engage with a greater number of consumers and reduce costs. Moreover, it enables you to interact with clients faster. You can also tell the world more about your company, the employees and the values you cherish. 

Running a blog is a good way to promote yourself online too. Due to a company blog, you can take care of your image as a professional in your field. You can show commitment by sharing your knowledge with your clients and giving them advice. This way, you will gain their trust. To encourage potential customers, you can insert the links to your blog entries on social media platforms. 

Managing many social media accounts and a company blog may be demanding. New content should be added regularly. You need to stay relevant so that internet users won't forget about your brand. However, it's worth the effort.

What type of advertising is better for your company in particular? It depends on its characteristics, needs, and circumstances. Both traditional one and digital one have their pros and cons. In general, nowadays, digital advertising is necessary to keep up with the competition. Nevertheless, you shouldn't limit yourself to only one option. It will be best to advertise using different methods to increase your chances of success.

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tags: advertising, marketing, branding
categories: advertising
Monday 10.25.21
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Advertising agency - can it really help your business?

Are you wondering if hiring an advertising agency is a good solution? Or maybe you know it is, but you just seek some reassurance? Whatever your reasons, below you will find out why is it worth hiring an advertising agency and how can it benefit your business. Do not doubt it, it truly can. See what a good advertising agency can do for you.

What does it do? Good advertising agency in action..

For smaller businesses, especially new ones on the market, hiring an accountant is an obvious choice. But a marketing agency? Who needs that? Well, it turns out, you. Every business needs an advertising strategy, and if you are new in the business, or not-so-new but inexperienced in the field of marketing and advertising, such an agency is there to help. It can not only take care of your advertising strategy but also create brand identity, improve content and website optimisation. In other words, a good advertising agency will help your brand to be seen, noticed, and remembered. It will make your business stand out and earn for itself.

A marketing strategy expert - when it’s not you

As we like to point out, a marketing strategy is vital, and so is an advertising strategy. If you do not know how to create one, an expert from a successful agency will give you a helping hand. Such a strategy requires thorough research and thinking through the goals and operations of a company. It takes not only knowledge and understanding of marketing and advertising, but also time. Quite a lot of it. You can’t possibly spare enough time to do it right, especially if your business is on the verge of rapid growth, and that’s what you need to take care of. A good advertising agency will help you save this time by doing all the work for you. 

An expert will share his knowledge with you, and you will, no doubt, benefit from it. They have years of experience, they follow the trends on the market and among the customers, and they truly understand their job. Is there still any doubt as to why hire an advertising agency? Here are other benefits - they take care of every detail, of social media ads, display ads, commercial and printed advertisements, PR, budget management, and whatnot. It is saving time and making money by expanding a brand at the same time. So, should you hire an expert from an advertising agency? Oh, you know well the answer now.

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tags: advertising, marketing, business, branding
categories: advertising
Wednesday 09.15.21
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Brand Awareness - why your Brand should be a celebrity?

The general notion of brand awareness is actually simple, and there is nothing twisted about it. To explain it as plainly as possible - it refers to the consumers’ familiarity with a given brand. It describes who, and how, remembers and associates this particular brand and, as a result, what are the chances (if any) that a consumer will become a customer.

Recognising and recalling - what is brand awareness?

Brand awareness is often interchangeably used with brand recognition and brand recall. These two notions are not the same, as they are narrower terms than the idea of awareness itself. Brand recognition is related to the so-called aided awareness, which means that a consumer can name a brand on the top of their head when asked about an example. Brand recall refers to the situation when a person has recognised a brand, but only when shown on the list.

Make yourself known

Building brand awareness is crucial when entering a new market but, sorry to disappoint, the effort never ends. Even if your business thrives for some time, you need to take care of increasing awareness. Why? The answer is the same as always - more customers, higher profit, expanding business. The more people recognise you, the more of them trust you and buy from you. 

Brand awareness can be, and is, built entirely from scratch. Here are some key elements that will help you understand, how to increase brand awareness:

  • Your brand is their friend - people tend to trust and choose those brands that they find appealing. How to make it attractive? It’s best to give it a face, present the brand as something more than just a money-making machine. There are many ways to do that. Be active in social media, comment, post, intrigue. Make sure that your content is not only about products or services, but also informs, gives advice, or entertain. Engage people to interact with your brand, and they will be more willing to stay.

  • A story behind everything - everyone, and everything, has a story to tell, and people generally like to hear some good narrative. Don’t be coy and share the history of your success, the anecdote or the tale. The choice is yours, but storytelling is an invaluable marketing tool.

  • Be associated - the well-remembered brands are the brands associated with something. If you want to be recognisable, engage in sponsorship, social actions, or other events. Find something that corresponds with the message and idea behind your brand and stamp it with your logo, so the participants of the event will keep the brand in mind.

Is it fame yet?

How can brand awareness be measured? It is a tough task, but not impossible. The easiest ways are traditional surveys (although in a modern, online form), in which you can ask respondents if they recognise your brand among others. You can also ask them which brand comes to their minds when they think about a given product or service (so-called aided brand awareness). Other tools might be helpful, like site traffic statistics or social engagement notifications. 


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tags: advertising, ads, marketing, branding
categories: branding
Saturday 08.28.21
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Plan the future — benefits of a strategy session

Planning ahead and foreseeing the future of a company might be a challenge. Even if the leadership meets every week to strategise and plan, more often than not, they meet the dead end. What’s the reason and how to change that once and for all? The answer is nothing else but a right strategy session.

We meet and then what?

What is a strategy session, and why should you decide to hold it? Generally, it’s a meeting of the company’s leadership with a competent strategist. The session aims to plan future actions for the business, improve (or create from the scratch) a successful brand and make it stand out from the crowd. The process might last a few hours up to a few days, depending on the state of the business and its goals.

A well-conducted strategy session consists of two parts. It starts with getting to know each other, or, rather, getting to know the brand. The brand strategist gets an insight into the company. It’s no sense to play hide-and-seek at this point, as the session is for your own good. The strategist will want to know about the industry, the business itself and its operations, but also a tad bit about the leadership, the core values of the brand, its competition and the target audience. The second part of the session is planning on the basis of the gathered information.

What does a strategy session give you?

A well-conducted planning session is like giving you a helping hand in a time of crisis. It might really work wonders. The strategist is an experienced specialist, and that in itself is a great advantage. Innovative ideas, unbiased opinion and knowledge are what the strategist brings to the table. The person from the outside, not involved personally in the company’s operations, is an opportunity to see the potential where the leadership couldn’t. The strategist has all that's essential to make it work — to make the business work. What’s more, the vast knowledge helps bring the brand closer to the audience and distinguish it from the competition. The strategy session makes the business float when it was on the verge of sinking.  

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tags: website, advertising, branding
categories: branding, advertising
Saturday 08.07.21
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Find your place — Brand Positioning

Even the ideally-planned brand is not profitable if it is not well-positioned. The process of brand positioning is probably the most crucial element of the whole business strategy. The potential buyers will not choose your product or service if they don’t associate the brand with any positive values. The right image in their minds is what really sells your offer.

Distinguish yourself

The goal of brand positioning is to make the company and its offer visible among other businesses operating in the same field. The market is fierce, as is the competition. If you want the audience to see and remember you, you need to work on that. That is when the brand positioning steps in. Its main aim is to place your service or product in the mind of the audience, so when a person needs to buy what you offer, they instantly remember the right brand — your brand. 

You can’t force them to bear in mind that your business exists, and they should choose it from the vast possibilities of the market. The audience needs to believe and engage with your idea. The whole brand strategy works on putting this idea in the mind of the audience. If the message is simple, clear, and identifiable it will intertwine with the brand, and in the moment of buying, will spring to the customer’s mind.

Brand positioning requires creativity

The process of brand positioning is not an easy one. It demands thorough research of the market, a creative approach and deep thinking. Before you start expanding and promoting the idea and the brand itself, you need to find the right gap, a niche for your operations. It requires three steps:

  • Understanding of the audience — create an audience persona, an average consumer, and try to follow their way of thinking. Get to know them intimately to determine what they really need.

  • Understanding of the competition — take a closer look at those brands that proved to be successful. Find the feature that distinguishes them. Then don’t repeat that feature.

  • Creative process — when you know what your audience expects and what your competition offers, fill the gap between these two.

Think definitely outside the box and find something that will distinguish you from other brands. Fulfill the needs and desires that are yet to be satisfied. That is your niche and idea that will position the brand.  


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tags: branding, design, marketing
categories: branding, advertising
Saturday 07.03.21
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Key elements of a successful brand

You have an eye-catching logo, a memorable slogan, and the right combination of colors. Does it mean you have a strong, successful brand? Not exactly, as the brand is much more than just these components. Your logo and graphic layout are just a surface of an ocean. What are the core, essential elements that constitute a brand, distinguishes it, and ensures constant trust and interest of the customers?

Make a statement, give a promise

When you’ve already established the vital elements of your business, including its purpose, logo, target audience, and all that, it’s time to make a promise. Make a statement, be heard, believed, and trusted. A successful brand needs to encourage its potential customers by simply explaining what they can gain and how would they benefit. Simple as that. What can you offer them that no one else can? Think it through and express it as straightforward as possible. Making a statement, presenting the brand’s values, and what you and your employees stand for is also noteworthy. Advocate for something, and the right audience will come to you.

How can you help?

Make your customers believe that the promises your brand makes will be kept. Tell them, or even better, instead of telling them, show it. That’s where the brand’s image plays a vital role. The right logo, slogans, website — they all convey a message; is your brand a first-class, premium service or a second-rate at best? Establishing a coherent image and making sure that every element supports the claim you made is a way to differentiate the brand from the dozens of others.

A successful brand keeps its promise

You made a promise, made a customer believe you, so now what? Keep that promise, live up to that statement. The reputation of your brand depends on the customer’s experience at every stage of the purchase. Browsing your website, visiting a store, buying and paying must be pleasant at least, if not memorable. A top-class brand brings the best possible experience. It pays off, as the customers return to you, give their recommendations, and mention your services to others. Word-of-mouth marketing is worth its weight in gold. 

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tags: branding, business, design
categories: branding
Monday 06.21.21
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Websites built to sell

A website is to your online business is as physical shop front is to your offline business. It is one of the most essential parts of your online success. The key is to leave a lasting impression on the visitors who land on your page. If your website doesn't demonstrate professionalism, credibility and attention to the smallest details like high end memorable branding or thoughtful font selection, clients might be scared away. You don’t want to create an impression that your website is one of those sites created hurriedly for scam purposes, do you? Not to mention that 75% of your web visitors will judge your credibility based on web design. Apart from the products or services you offer, a professionally designed website can be one of the differential areas of the business. Remember that the online world is immersed with a huge number of sites. While the majority of these sites are bogus, there are a huge number of others which are marvellous; therefore, you are up against a very stiff competition. If you can get a moderately priced web design that looks professional and which is of high quality, then you would have conquered one obstacle to competing online.

Professional website will make your advertising effort much simpler in light of the fact that you won't be disappointed with high bouncing rates—since Google uses your bouncing rates statistsics against your with regards to search engine ranking. This is because professionally designed site generates confidence and interest. It also assures the potential clients that you are serious with your business, and you are there to stay-who wants to deal with a scam website that can disappear overnight?

Thus, a professional, quality, and credible website forms a basis of your longevity. It also ensures that your brand identity is noted.

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tags: website, business, branding, marketing, design
categories: advertising
Wednesday 04.01.20
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Think Branding

New brands don’t just come from nowhere. They work hard to get the recognition they desire. They’re smart about appealing to their target demographics. Before a product or service launch, they take the time to think deeply about their brand identities: the colors, fonts, and other stylistic choices that make them who they are. In short, they engage in smart brand advertising. Smart brand advertising – Delivers a clear message ‘a brand identity’ – Establishes and confirms brand credibility – Connects with prospects intellectually and emotionally – Motivates prospects to take action – Inspires customer loyalty Brand Identity A brand identity is just what it sounds like: the character and personality of a brand. A brand identity is defined by the brand’s logo, web presence, product or service offerings, copy, and other visual elements that face the public. It is important that the company really thinks this through. Because these elements identify the brand, they should be strong and consistent. The brand identity can say a lot about the company as a whole. The logo, in particular, communicates volumes. The old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” applies here. Carefully matching the logo to the brand is the first step towards smart brand advertising. Brand Credibility Good brand advertising builds brand credibility. It inspires trust. Customers feel comfortable buying from a brand they trust. It also works to establish a brand as a leader in its industry so it can out - compete other brands. You can accomplish this in many ways, and a combination of approaches will probably be the most effective. Connecting With Prospects Brand advertising is about connecting and reaching out to potential customers to offer solutions they need. These solutions may make intellectual sense but they should make emotional sense too.

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tags: branding, design, creativity, ui, marketing
categories: advertising
Monday 03.30.20
Posted by Bart Radka
 

There are only 2 ways: Be distinctive or Be different

Differentiation is the idea that there is a different perceived meaning behind every brand - the key here being perceived, whether or not the brand meaning is actually different. In other words, if consumers do not perceive a difference, it may as well not be there. Differentiation as the “reason to buy” for the consumer. Academics have touted that brands will only succeed if their consumers perceive them as different from their competitors; however, research has shown that brand perception scores actually tend to be quite similar.

Distinctiveness is a brand’s ability to stand out so that buyers can easily identify it: “I know these sneakers with a swoosh are Nike, and these sneakers with three parallel bars are Adidas”. Distinctiveness is also a brand looking like itself. This characteristic is far more critical for brands than differentiation, as they need customers to quickly notice, recognize, and recall their brand over others. Not only this, but distinctiveness, or branding, is legally defensible. Branding can be trademarked, but points of differentiation cannot.

So how can a brand be distinctive?
Distinctive elements show customers what the brand is. These can include colours, logos, taglines, symbols, celebrities, or even advertising styles. In defining these elements, brands can begin to craft a story around who they are, making sure this story resonates and lingers with their consumers.

These elements are critical, as they play to the neuroscience that helps construct and reinforce memories. As such, the repetitiveness and recognizability of these elements help remove consumer cognitive burden. The more consumers can rely on an implicit reaction to a brand, the more likely they are to buy that brand #innovate

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tags: branding, design
categories: advertising
Tuesday 01.14.20
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Let's pop ya colour

When it comes to building a brand identity or a content marketing campaign, it can be difficult to know where to start. You may have an initial idea but bringing it to life and getting your message seen are always harder than initially thought.

Generally, you want your content to resonate with your audience in some way and for them to reach and engage with your marketing. A study published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science suggests that the psychology of colour may also be key to accomplishing this objective. The study demonstrates that consumers’ response to a brand’s identity and its use of colour may also affect their affinity for a brand. This means that marketers who successfully use colour psychology can influence purchasing habits and brand loyalty. While no one colour has been proven to drive sales more successfully than others, the use of colour psychology does appear to impact a brand’s ability to make itself stand out.

Many brands make use of the Isolation Effect, a principle that suggests that a unique colour in a field of uniform hues will stand out more. Brands that apply this psychological principle to brightly coloured call-to-action buttons on their monochromatic landing pages, or to bold packaging that stands out among competitors on store shelves, may have much more success in driving consumers to purchase. Colour is just one of many psychological tools that marketers can use to build successful brands.

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tags: branding, design
categories: advertising
Friday 01.03.20
Posted by Bart Radka
 

Branding Re-Branded

An evening of inspirational chat and a day sat on the other side of our ‘Dig’ process – we take a trip to Bristol for an evening with Michael Johnson of Johnson Banks to do just that.

A talk with the Johnson Banks founder took us through the highs and lows of the branding process in 5 steps, not forgetting step 2.5 – the space in the middle where we sit around trying to translate strategy into creative. We heard about some of the design guru’s best projects, some of which have pushed boundaries, and a few of his own personal targets, including raising £2 billion for Cambridge University. With over £800m already raised, the campaign seems to be working wonders to educate the next generation.

The workshop explored the process of brand and the balance between thinking and doing, something we believe in. A strong, well thought out brand enables you to engage with diverse audiences and ensures your message is clear, meaningful and delivered consistently. Effective branding can change customer perceptions and build long-term relationships. Bad branding, on the other hand, can mean being completely misunderstood, considered unsuitable or overlooked – something reiterated by examples of what some brands have achieved and where some have truly failed.

Working through a branding exercise allowed us to open a dialogue between our team and others in the industry about what works well and what doesn’t, identifying gaps in various markets and ways to build a brand around the gap including narrative, visuals and campaigns to promote it.

It was a great opportunity to turn the tables and approach this as a client – a very interesting experience!

A huge thank you to Michael for his energy and enthusiasm and giving our team the chance to meet fellow creatives at the beautiful studio.

We at Radka Advertising know how important developing and adopting the right branding can be. We also know it’s vital that all imagery should be formed around the true identity and individuality of the client. This is something that we take great pride in; getting to know our clients and understanding who they are, what they do and their unique message. We do this through our Dig process – it’s a key factor in why our branding is so successful.

If you’re looking to brand or re-brand why not get in touch and let us know who you are, what you do and how we can help you get your message across.

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tags: branding, design
categories: advertising
Tuesday 05.21.19
Posted by Bart Radka
 

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