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Umbrella branding involves using a single brand name for a company's multiple product lines to leverage the brand's reputation and increase familiarity with consumers. It allows brand values and goodwill to transfer between products under the same brand name. Co-branding associates a product with more than one brand to combine the strengths of both brands through a marketing partnership. While strategic partnerships pursue joint efforts, co-branding specifically designs products with dual brand identifiers through contractual agreements.

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Above The Line-Advertising: 12:34 AM 0 Advetising Comments Above The Line Below The Line and Through The Line

Umbrella branding involves using a single brand name for a company's multiple product lines to leverage the brand's reputation and increase familiarity with consumers. It allows brand values and goodwill to transfer between products under the same brand name. Co-branding associates a product with more than one brand to combine the strengths of both brands through a marketing partnership. While strategic partnerships pursue joint efforts, co-branding specifically designs products with dual brand identifiers through contractual agreements.

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Above the Line and Below the Line

These terms may have simple definitions as will be given below, but constantly one tends to
misinterpret the different forms of promotions and advertising as above-the-line or below-the-
line.

In an attempt to try and solve the confusion, let us look at a few different angles.

Above the line-advertising


is allocated to television, radio, press, outdoor and cinema advertising

Below the line-advertising


promotions, direct marketing, sponsorship and public relations

Origins of the term refer back to the balance sheet – Above the Line advertising costs are part of
‘costs of sales’ and are deducted before Gross Profit is determined, non-commission baring
advertising is part of the operating expenses and is deducted before Net Profit is determined.

Another way to view it is 'concept' delivery versus 'tactile' delivery.

So a concept media is one where you transmit ideas but nothing concrete ever passes to your
audience - radio, tv, billboards and even most newspaper ads.

Tactile delivery is giving the audience something they can actually touch - so coupons, direct
mail, product samples.

ATL tends to be visual/auditory where as BTL usually excludes auditory but includes sight,
smell, touch, and even taste.

Through the line (TTL) refers to an advertising strategy involving both above and below the
line communications in which one form of advertising points the target to another form of
advertising thereby crossing the 'line'. An example would be a TV commercial that says 'come
into the store to sample XYZ product'. In this example, the TV commercial is a form of 'above
the line' advertising and once in the store, the target customer is presented with 'below the line'
promotional material such as store banners, competition entry forms etc.
Published by: Renown Advertising & Management Group at 12:34 AM 0 Advetising Comments

Key Words: Above The Line, Below The Line and Through The Line
PUSH AND PULL MARKETING

Push and Pull Marketing

What is pull marketing?

Pull marketing is where you develop advertising and promotional strategies that are meant to
entice the prospect to buy your product or service. Some classic examples are "half off!" or
"bring in this coupon to save 25%" or "buy one get one free", etc.

With pull marketing, you are trying to create a sense of increased, time limited value so that the
customer will come into your store to buy.

An example of this is a perfume product. Women do not request to smell a fragrance they never
smelled before; it is simply "pushed" at them, through the right advertisement.

 Applied to that portion of the supply chain where demand uncertainty is relatively small

 Production & distribution decisions are based on long term forecasts

 Based on past orders received from retailer’s warehouse (may lead to Bullwhip effect)

 Inability to meet changing demand patterns

 Large and variable production batches


 Unacceptable service levels

 Excessive inventories due to the need for large safety stocks

What is push marketing?

Push marketing is where you develop advertising and promotional strategies geared toward your
marketing and distribution channels to entice them in promoting your product. As consumers,
you rarely see this type of marketing when it is directed to the distributors. It might include
wholesale discounts, kickbacks, bonuses, and other types of support. It's all designed to have the
retailer promote your product to the end users over a different product.

In recent years, I've seen a nearly exponential increase in the past decade - another type of push
marketing is taking over. It's the referral and word of mouth marketing. When companies
encourage happy customers to spread the word to their friends and families, that's a type of push
marketing. Or, when companies make ads that are controversial, cheeky, or downright shocking,
they create a little buzz - that's another type of push marketing.

An example of this is the car manufacturing company Toyota. Toyota only produces cars when
they have been ordered by the customers.
 Applied to that portion of the supply chain where demand uncertainty is high

 Production and distribution are demand driven

 No inventory, response to specific orders

 Point of sale (POS) data comes in handy when shared with supply chain partners

 Decrease in lead time

 Difficult to implement

Published by: Renown Advertising & Management Group at 12:29 AM 0 Advetising Comments

Key Words: PUSH AND PULL MARKETING


UMBRELLA BRANDING

Umbrella Branding

As with all effective brand strategy, umbrella brands require a single message, an expression of a
commonsense benefit grounded in human emotion that opens the way to own the conversation
within a business category.

With an umbrella brand, the number of interactions the consumer has with the brand increase
significantly, thereby reinforcing the brand values, and it helps transfer the goodwill to new
products and categories. But the umbrella brand needs to be focused: It must stand for the same
values across the category or range of products, and have the same emotional link.

Generally, consumer durables and services brands have used umbrella branding, while FMCGs
have not, but even they have resorted to brand extensions rather than new launches.

Independent brands only make sense when the product clearly has a different proposition from
the company brand; like Lexus from Toyota and Swatch from Omega.

In the case of Asian Paints, there were so many sub-brands, there was a reduction of media
weights for advertising each entity. Then, the company shifted to a brand-centric portfolio, which
involved a change of logo, product names, packaging and advertising. But the response from the
trade and consumers has been positive, overall brand synergy and shop presence have increased,
and the advertising is more effective, he added.

So unless the product is clearly different in the mind of the consumer, umbrella branding is the
way to go. NIVEA is a great international example of an Umbrella Brand.
Published by: Renown Advertising & Management Group at 12:28 AM 0 Advetising Comments

Key Words: UMBRELLA BRANDING


CO-BRANDING

Co-branding

Co-branding is a marketing arrangement that associates a single product or service with more
than one brand name, or otherwise associates a product with someone other than the principal
producer. The typical co-branding agreement involves two or more companies acting in
cooperation to associate any of various logos, color schemes, or brand identifiers to a specific
product that is contractually designated for this purpose. The object for this is to combine the
strength of two brands.

The marketing of Gillette M3 Power shaving equipment with Duracell batteries (both brands
owned by Procter & Gamble).

Many online companies think they are pursuing co-branding when in fact they are pursuing
strategic partnerships. Partnerships, which have different goals than co-brands, are a way of
leveraging a corporation’s own strengths and softening its weaknesses via a joint effort with
another firm.

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