What does and should my brand stand for? How can my brand resonate with audiences?.
For 50 years, the world’s top brands have trusted Kantar to shape their future.
Define and build Meaningful Different and Salient brands. Identify value and design a strategy for your brand to create long term sustainable value.
• Strong emotive clarity drives
• 1.5X
• Pricing Power
Our Brand strategy experts help you know where to play, how to win, and keep winning, infused by our Meaningfully Different and Salient framework (MDS).
Kantar MDS is externally validated and one of the few selected frameworks in the industry to be MASB certified.
How we can help you:
- Identify and maximise value in your category (Market Understanding)
- Position your brand portfolio to create value (Brand Positioning)
- Ensure instant recognition for your brand assets through a proven system 1 approach (Brand Imprint)
Brand Strategy expertise in 70 markets to answer all your brand questions and provide insights and advice to shape your brand future
Brand expertise. Powered by MDS, amplified by tech.
How you can shape your brand future
Grow category value by finding new space
Matrix unlocks category value with a systematic approach to Finding New Space for your brand and portfolio. We help direct portfolio management, brand fit, innovation and/or communication efforts to where they will have maximum impact through identifying and prioritizing opportunities.Key Features
Proven
Consumer behavioural model to drive survey content, analytics and deliverables removing uncertainty and facilitating confident decisions making.
Future Shaping Insights
Shape your brand by unlocking meaningfully different growth opportunities, informed by Kantar’s externally validated Meaningful Different Salient framework.Find New Space
Unlock growth opportunities whether you're looking to move your brand into new categories or occasions, expand your audience or inspire new product development
Own Meaningfully Different positions for your brand(s)
With a focus on emotion, NeedScope provides direction to develop and differentiate brand positioning and deliver a consistent experience across all touchpoints. Our validated framework and unique tools help you build a meaningfully different brand or brand portfolio that will drive strategic and competitive advantage predisposing more people to your brand.Key Features
Best in class Brand Positioning Framework
Identifies the best brand (portfolio) positioning opportunities based on deep understanding of underlying emotional needs.
Trusted brand equity framework
Informed by Kantar's externally validated Meaningfully Different Salient framework, NeedScope uses a powerful framework to design a differentiating brand positioning and ensure consistency in brand execution.A world class solution
Driving brand growth through 20,000+ projects across 115 markets.
Align every touchpoint to your brand positioning
Needscope AI decodes the underlying emotion a brand communicates at an intuitive, faster system 1 level. Based on machine learning, NeedScope AI recognises the emotion in visual imagery and music. This ensures every touchpoint and activation is aligned with your brand’s positioning.Key Features
AI semiotic decoder
Understands the emotion in your brand's assets to connect with the system 1 fast brain.
Optimise
Your brand assets to better align with your brand positioning.Execute
Your brand consistently across touchpoints, based on emotion.
Transform brand insights into strategy
An integrated robust process to transform your brand research insights into a fully developed brand strategy. Our proprietary approach draws on NeedScope tools as well as our considerable brand expertise. Key stakeholders are engaged throughout the process so there is clear brand direction and ownership of the strategy.Key Features
Proven Brand Positioning framework
Turns brand insights into a differentiating brand strategyBring brand positioning to life
Develops a brand ambition, touchpoint guardrails and a brand book to support your brand strategy.Brand Architecture guidelines
How to enter new space for growth with proven Brand Architecture principles and the power of the NeedScope framework.
Instant recognition for your brand's distinctive assets
BrandImprint uses cutting edge cognitive psychology to measure how quickly and easily consumers recognise your brand's assets and connect them to the brand. Through direct questions and response speed tasks Brand Imprint accesses the intuitive 'type 1' responses evoked by logos, colours, shapes and other assets brands use to trigger recognition in advertising environments.
The method includes a combination of questions and speed of response tasks to access intuitive, 'type 1' responses evoked by different brand assets. Brand assets includes things like logos, colours, slogans, shapes, and anything else that a brand uses to trigger recognition in advertising environments.
Key Features
Proven System 1 approach
Leverages the latest developments in neuroscience and cognitive psychology.
Your brand's most Distinctive Assets
Identifies the assets intuitively and uniquely associated with your brand. Trusted positioning framework
Using NeedScope framework to understand whichc assets will create consistency across all communications and touchpoints to drive your desired brand positioning.
