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About the Author
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Getting Started
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House of Brands or Branded House?
Brand architecture is commonly thought of as a choice
between a house of brands or a branded house.
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Your Options
Whether it’s a branded house or a house of brands, there
are several, more specific models to choose from.
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MASTERBRAND SUB-BRAND ENDORSER BRAND
One Parent Brand Parent + Children Siblings
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Your Options
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MASTERBRAND SUB-BRAND ENDORSER BRAND FREESTANDING HYBRID BRAND
One Parent Brand Parent + Children Siblings BRANDS Take Your Pick
Strangers
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Why You Should Care
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GET A CLEAR SYSTEM CLUTTERED ADVERTISING
Brand architecture gives you a clear system Too many brand logos in one ad demand
for introducing and maintaining trademarks. more attention than most prospects
If your brand architecture is unclear, you are willing to give. This can make a
will likely suffer from one or more of the marketer look unsophisticated or even
following: amateur.
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Masterbrand
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What Is a Masterbrand?
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That is to say, there is a firm-wide
brand promise, position, personality,
tone of voice and visual identity.
All individual products and services
roll up into this brand system. It is
a branded house in its purest form.
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What Is a Masterbrand?
NAMING DESIGN
This masterbrand uses descriptive, non- With only one name, there is typically
trademarked names for all products and only one logo. However, design can be
services. These names use plain, descriptive used to differentiate products, services
language. They aren’t unique enough to be and divisions, as seen in these example
considered trademarkable. from FedEx and Google.
FEDEX GOOGLE
FedEx uses descriptive names and Google relies on descriptive naming for the
differentiates between divisions using colour. majority of its homegrown products and services.
It uses icons to differentiate them and create
visual interest.
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Why Use a Masterbrand?
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Sub-Brand
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What Is a Sub-Brand?
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What Is a Sub-Brand?
NAMING
Sub-brands are useful when appealing to
different target audiences. They allow for
equally different product styles. You see
them all the time in automotive, athletic
and electronics branding.
DESIGN
With multiple brand names, there often
comes the need for multiple logos, designs
and brand experiences. Ford, for example,
creates distinct logos for its sub-brands.
EXAMPLE
While this is the default decision for
most marketers, it need not be. Just look
at Apple. Popular Apple sub-brands have
different names. But they use the same
simple colours and fonts to tie into and
reinforce the parent brand.
FORD APPLE
Ford benefits from its economy sub-brands Popular Apple sub-brands like iPhone, iPad
like the Fiesta ($14,000) as well as its upscale and MacBook may have different names,
sub-brands like the Expedition ($52,000). but they share the exact same logo style.
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Why Use a Sub-Brand?
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Endorser Brand
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What Is an Endorser Brand?
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What Is an Endorser Brand?
NAMING
Endorser brands have individually
trademarked names for their offerings.
DESIGN
The offerings – that is to say, the endorsed
brands – feature their own distinct logos
and visuals. This may sound like sub-
branding, but it isn’t. Here, the parent
brand’s logo is dramatically smaller. It
takes a back seat to focus attention on
products and services.
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Where Sub-Brands End and Endorsed Brands Begin
Ford is the parent brand. The Nabisco is the parent brand, but the
LOGO
Ford logo is still featured most Nabisco logo is small and found on
PLACEMENT prominently on all vehicles. the corner of the package.
Always uses the Ford name. Does not mention the Nabisco brand.
COPYWRITING
“Ford Focus wins…” “Nabisco Ritz wins…”
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Why Use an Endorser Brand?
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Freestanding Brands
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What Is a Freestanding Brand?
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What Is a Freestanding Brand?
NAMING DESIGN
The freestanding brand is an invented, There is never a visible connection
suggestive, or semi-descriptive trademark. to the parent brand.
Since it’s a stranger to other brands in the
parent company’s roster, its own offers can EXAMPLE
follow masterbrand or sub-brand naming Viacom is the parent of a number of
conventions. freestanding brands. Notable Viacom
brands include: MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon,
Spike and Comedy Central. These
entertainment brands work well as
freestanding brands because each has its
own distinct audience, along with its own
brand promise, position and personality.
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Freestanding Brand: Toyota
TOYOTA
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Why Use Freestanding Brands?
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Hybrid Brand
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What Is a Hybrid Brand?
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Hybrid Brand: Microsoft
This approach is typically used when a firm overshadows a similar offer in the
is changing brand architectures, or acquiring roster. This was the case when Microsoft
existing brands through mergers or an introduced the endorsed brand, Bing,
acquisition. In such cases, the firm has to as an alternative to its failing Microsoft
preserve older product names and designs to Network (MSN) search engine.
keep customers happy, or to avoid confusion.
It behooved Microsoft to create a fresh
The hybrid architecture is also used when a new search brand that wasn’t visibly
firm introduces a superior new product that associated with MSN at launch. Only after
it proved successful did Bing become more
prominently linked to Microsoft.
MICROSOFT ® MICROSOFT ®
BING ® BUNGIE ®
INTERNET EXPLORER SURFACE ®
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Why Hybrid Brands Work
Most hybrid brand architectures work For firms using the sub-brand or endorser
because they allow for the peaceful brand architecture, introducing a descriptive
coexistence of old and new products. They masterbrand name can help when:
also allow for the merger or acquisition of
different types of brands. • There is a corporate initiative to market,
like a loyalty program
For firms that are primarily masterbrands,
• A descriptive name will work just as
introducing a trademarked sub-brand can well as a new trademark If a small to mid-sized firm invested its marketing dollars in a
help when:
• There is no time or budget to create roster of freestanding brands, it would likely be a waste of time
• Descriptive product names are too long a new trademark and money.
• Descriptive names will confuse the
audience
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Review Your Options
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MASTERBRAND SUB-BRANDS ENDORSER BRAND FREESTANDING BRAND
Parent + Child Siblings Strangers
When customers need to When customers need Best when brands target
immediately understand what to choose between many When customers buy more extremely different audiences
BEST FOR... a product is and does, and want similar company products because they are focused on and needs, or need to compete
to trust one leading brand like cars or sneakers a single star brand against their own existing brands
CORPORATE
Highest Medium Low Lowest
BRAND AWARENESS
COST TO
CREATE + MAINTAIN Lowest Highest High High
PROTECTION
FROM COLLATERAL
Lowest Low High Highest
BRAND DAMAGE
TRADEMARK
Lowest High High Highest
VIOLATION RISKS
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10 Steps to Brand Architecture Confidence
• Based on your analysis, determine
which brand architectures you
can safely eliminate
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Choose Wisely
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BRAND ARCHITECTURE TOOLS
1. Architecture overview
2. Brand name inventory and issues chart
3. SWOT matrixes
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Architecture Overview
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MASTERBRAND SUB-BRAND ENDORSER BRAND FREESTANDING HYBRID BRAND
One Parent Brand Parent + Children Siblings BRANDS Take Your Pick
Strangers
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Brand Name Inventory and Issues Chart
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5 – 7
FIRM NAMES UNOFFICIAL NAMES WEBSITE URLS TRADEMARK STATUS NOTES (SEE PAGE 32)
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FIRM NAMES UNOFFICIAL NAMES WEBSITE URLS TRADEMARK STATUS NOTES (SEE PAGE 32)
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SWOT Matrix for Masterbrand Architecture
INTERNAL REASONS
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
EXTERNAL REASONS
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SWOT Matrix for Sub-Brand Architecture
INTERNAL REASONS
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
EXTERNAL REASONS
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SWOT Matrix for Endorser Brand Architecture
INTERNAL REASONS
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
EXTERNAL REASONS
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SWOT Matrix for Freestanding Brand Architecture
INTERNAL REASONS
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
EXTERNAL REASONS
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