In an age of distributed content, brands are keener than ever to stand out to audiences. Across new social channels, at unique experiential spaces, and on new iterations of websites and print media, brands are investing in making sure their logos and associated iconography are instantly recognisable among a sea of competitors.
Research has demonstrated that even for brands with long-standing, iconic branding, brand visibility on social channels especially can be an issue. Newspapers and magazines, for instance, struggle to differentiate themselves from the platforms on which they publish, with much of their output being attributed “to Facebook” rather than to the brand itself.
Consequently, ensuring that your brand is shiny enough to stick in audiences’ minds is imperative, and new branding is feted with celebratory roll-outs across social channels, any number of press releases and traditional advertising.
But that drive to stand out can lead to potential problems, however, particularly for brands whose teams are spread thin across all those channels or has a lack of effective oversight.
The need to tailor branding to each new channel or environment often leads to situations that even the most comprehensive branding guidelines could not account for, from the need to conform to the rules on a platform to issues surrounding the licensing of fonts. That issue is compounded by the speed with which most brands need to react to new trends. The reality is that, even with guidelines, any number of factors can lead to that branding warping and changing ever so slightly with every new iteration.
At a time when strong branding is more important than ever, especially when brands can’t always control the context in which that branding appears, that gives competitor brands an advantage.
Consequently, the often-overlooked need for consistency of branding is climbing the priority lists for agencies and brands alike. Everything from consistency of colour to ensuring that every person with responsibility for deploying the brand has access to the correct font needs to be considered, but the reality is that it’s easier said than done.
This is where a company CI can go a long way in aligning the consistency of how your brand is represented across multiple platforms.
A corporate identity or corporate image is the manner in which a corporation or business presents themselves to the public. Corporate identity is a primary goal of the corporate communications, for the purpose to maintain and build the identity to accord with and facilitate the corporate business objectives.
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