“Integrated Brand Planning Redefined” by Antonio Monerris

Propositions for a renewed framework of branding

FRIDAY, 17th July, 2015

Antonio Monerris has pioneered strategic Brand Planning and Communications from the late 80′s. He began his work in agencies such as HDM and Lowe to finally partnering with Young & Rubicam and set up Vinizius Y & R in Barcelona. Antonio Monerris has worked extensively with corporations and brands such as Danone, Diageo, Agrolimen, Sara Lee, Purina, Orangina Schweppes or Pernond Ricard among others. His experience includes FMCG, retail, health, premium & luxury and technology. He has encouraged and has been President of Account Planning Group, the organization that brings together the strategic planners in areas of communication and branding. Currently combines strategic brand consulting and communication with the collaboration with universities and schools.

Being authentic, being unique, being shared:

key cornerstones of contemporary branding

A simple and universal tool

Reach and Richness are critical measures of planning

Branding is a consistent belief

The brand is the will of being and meaning something in the consumer's mind.

Brands should always be a proposition, related to a meaningful insight

If a brand is not able to invoke a specific idea or value and fails to suggest more than fuzzy things, it becomes an

"underdeveloped" brand.

Meaningless awareness is a waste of money.

A brand is …

It is a meaningful and structured perception in the consumer's mind, capable of triggering spontaneous associations of ideas that influence the consumer transaction process with a product or service

(… defined by a guy call Antonio Monerris)

Memories that support opinions that influence decisions

The brand interferes with consumer value judgments...

(… also defined by a guy call Antonio Monerris)

…but also assume that complexity of a fragmented reality is the real challenge

Branding of should involve a "long-term plan" to build and maintain a distinctive, positive and competitive perceptions, both

internally and externally.

But change should be part of your brand Entity :adaptive branding is a must!

…We should believe in the power of brand beliefs:

because the views and beliefs of successful brands connect with fundamental human emotions and truths.

People actively shape brands today.

Participation and social networks are essential in shaping and managing brands.

Virgin

• Believes that the interests of ordinary people are abused by big, faceless, monopolistic corporations

• Stands up for the little guy …and has a bit of fun in doing so

Apple

• Apple believes the power of individuality should triumph

• So its entire culture is designed to challenge the traditional way

Sony

• Sony believes that we are all dreamers who like to let our imagination play

• It designs products to ensure the ‘play’ button delivers entertainment that is always a few steps ahead of your imagination

Branding is structure or system of meanings

The mastery of branding is knowing to laddering from matter into meaning

Brand FOUNDATIONS

Brand DELIVERY

Brand SELF

Propietary emotionAppropriate emotion/ significant / agent of purpose

Argumentative StructuresDeliveries – benefits – Structures or concepts

Cognitive FoundationsAttributes – meaning links– “evidences”

Branding is lasting and rich relation

"Today the brands are the people"

The emerging role of social media and consumer involvement in configuring and managing brands.

The centrality of the consumer is the key of today branding…and it means "visualize" a more demanding consumer,

impulsive and obsessed with getting more value for money

Knowledge and empathy for people is the only thing that cannot be copied, manufactured

or become a commodity

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The unique power is the preference.

Based on ties and relations that allow us to anticipate desires and preferences.

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Making Consumer an essential part of the being and living brands is the only way to counteract an environment "unpowered".

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The power of brands is in complete and continuous intimacy with

consumers

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To hear and understand is not enough. It is imperative to turn

that into active listener.

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Social networks = Capital

• physical capital

– Money, buildings, equipment

• human capital

– Education, skills, ability

• Social capital

• Networks of trust and reciprocity

Adopt a new brand paradigm

• open structures constantly changing

• They will be flowing, transiting, processing and constant updating.

• Brands will be an open source.

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brands might become demobrands:

spaces constantly meeting and dialogue with public.

Demobrands that can be defined as "meanings in common", in which the owner of the brand and its target co-manage the shared meanings.

“replacing the integrated enterprise with a network of external relationships, designed to offer innovation and flexibility to changing market conditions and opportunities”

Gary HamelLondon Business School

demo-brands identify and constantly generate meeting spaces and dialogue

opportunities

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Demo-brand continuously learn and undertake changes, established on consumers encounters and exchange.

Demo-brands are shared spaces for managing meanings

The branding could also be a lightweight form of power and influence.

It is a kind of "soft power“, because it allows to seduce wills without coercion; a very important form of power in a multilateral and fragmented world

“The love you get is equal to the love you give”