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1.3.06

The top 10 most wit’-it g’d-up dope brands 

The BrandXpress Blog has a post on the top 10 for 2005—as far as American are concerned, surveyed by Energy/BBDO. And it differs from the lists from the Medinge Group, brand experts at Brandchannel, and the Landor end-of-year survey I’ve covered.
    is tops, followed by and . These do not really surprise me: each has made an effort to lead in their fields, and Adidas seems to come off with less “hard sell” than Nike. My theory is that that turns modern off, but the fact Nike came fourth frustrates that. However, some BBDO folks actually agree with me—which is good, as my theory comes from my own, earlier Gen Y research, which I hoped would have some similarities to research on today’s teens.
   A big surprise is ’s showing in fifth. Once upon a time, young people protested against and banned this brand for the poisoned baby fiasco. But it seems that hatred does not get passed on from generation to generation.
   Cadbury, , M&Ms and Kodak—the last is hardly a in my book—round out the top 10.
   There’s no or here.
   Also insightful were the changes since 1995. Back then, Coke led, and Nokia was not to be seen. was fifth but it has since fallen into being —no more multi-million-dollar helmed by Michael Jackson. Colgate, Disney and Reebok were present.
   These surveys are perhaps useful from the point of view of figuring out what has . , sophistication and even the impression of wholesome seems to have helped the 2005 top 10, lessons to bear in mind when this group becomes even more affluent in a few years’ time. The old ways, put simply, do not work—something many and authors have been saying for many, many years. Of course, that’s too hard for the to accept, holding on to their copies of post-war marketing books.

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