Branding Glossary

Paid communications aimed at persuading an audience to buy a product, use a service, change a behaviour, or adopt a viewpoint.

A type of marketing in which a business rewards an affiliate for bringing customers to it.

A tool developed by Google to help marketing teams work faster and more collaboratively.

A standardized model of a personality or behaviour, often used in marketing, storytelling, psychology, and philosophy. Often used for Brand Archetypes.

A survey of opinions about a brand, often used as a benchmark before and after making changes to the brand.

The group of people for which a product, service, message, or experience is designed.

The quality of being genuine, considered a powerful brand attribute.

A digital alter ego; in branding, an icon designed to operate freely in a variety of
media. Often social media.

A survey that measures an audience’s familiarity with a brand, often divided into
“aided” and “unaided” awareness.

In behavioural psychology, the observation that the more people do or believe something, the more others will be inclined to do or believe the same thing.

On the web, a small, rectangular ad designed to attract users to a website.

Customer-driven marketing, as opposed to top-down or management-driven marketing.

A technique for generating, exploring, and evaluating ideas as a group.

Design that identifies a product or service and differentiates it from its competitors. Over time, this identity becomes a perception of a product, service, experience, or organization; a reputation. The brand is associated with a level of credibility, quality, and satisfaction in the consumer’s mind.

Anyone who promotes a brand through interactions with customers, prospects,
partners, or the media.

A strategic firm that provides or manages a variety of brand-building services across a range of touchpoints

The practice of closely linking customer experience and brand strategy.

A person experienced in building brands as strategic systems.

Anyone who promotes a brand through interactions with customers, prospects,
partners, or the media.

A hierarchy of related brands or brand names, often beginning with a master brand and describing its relationship to sub-brands and co-brands.

Any aspect of a brand that has strategic value, including brand associations, brand attributes, brand awareness or brand loyalty.

A distinctive feature of a product, service or company brand.

A formal assessment of a brand’s strengths and weaknesses across its touchpoints.

A concise, streamlined story that acts as the platform for an organization’s communications and creative.

A publication or online resource that outlines the strategy, key messages, and style guidelines for a brand.

A coordinated effort to increase brand awareness, brand equity or brand loyalty.

A shared understanding of a company’s purpose, value proposition, personality, and messaging that allows brand builders to collaborate with autonomy.

A measurement of how well a product, service, or company is recognized by its
audience.

The network of people who contribute to building a brand, including internal
departments, external firms, industry partners, customers, users, and the media.

The accumulated value of a company’s brand assets, both financially and strategically; the overall strength of a brand.

All the interactions people have with a product, service, or organization.

A series of related brands owned by the same company

A disconnect between business strategy and brand experience.

The outward expression of a brand, including its trademark, name, communications, and visual appearance.

Any effort or program designed to increase value or avoid commoditization by building a differentiated brand.

The strength of preference for a brand compared to competing brands, sometimes measured in repeat purchases.

A stated or implied guarantee that creates customer expectations and employee responsibilities.

A measurement of how strongly a brand name is connected with a category in the
minds of an audience.

A measurement of how familiar a brand name is to an audience.

A person responsible for protecting and developing a brand

A document that articulates the parameters of a brand for members of the brand
community; a standardized set of brand-building tools.

The verbal or written component of a brand icon; the name of a product, service, or organization.

The character of a brand as defined in anthropomorphic terms.

A manager or team responsible for strict compliance with the guidelines in a brand manual.

A plan for the systematic development of a brand in alignment with a business
strategy.

Positioning is what differentiates a brand in the customer’s mind. To win the positioning game answer this simple question: What’s your Zest Factor?

A strong brand promise is the value or experience customers can expect to receive every single time they interact with a brand.

A brand’s personality; the unique way it is expressed to the world.

A plan for the systematic development of a brand in alignment with a business
strategy.

Like a blueprint, a template required to ensure the correct layout of a final physical package.

The process of using a die to cut through materials, such as paper to create custom shapes and designs.

Full-colour printing that uses four constituent colours: Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, and Black.

A full set of characters in a specific typeface. A font family includes the design in various weights, such as bold or italic, and is more comprehensive and complicated to design than a typeface.

A gradual transition of colours used to add depth, colour the object, or render a shiny look to a design element.

JPEG images are an image type that don’t support transparent backgrounds.

A symbol, type, or design used by a brand to identify itself.

An arrangement of images, materials, and text intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept.

Pantone Matching System or PMS; a standardized colour matching system.

A printed sample of work to be checked for errors in the text, positioning, or quality of colour reproduction.

Portable document format is a file type often used to send print materials to a print shop. It is also useful for the web when there are multi-paged documents, reports, and forms.

Portable network graphics format used for lossless compression and displaying images on the web. The advantage of .png is that it supports images with millions of colours and produces a transparent background.

“Stock Keeping Unit” and is a number that retailers use to differentiate products and track inventory levels.

A document designed to compile all the elements that make up the DNA of your brand, both visually and ideologically.

the art or procedure of arranging type or processing data and printing from it.

A corporate identity or corporate image is the visual representation a brand presents to the public.

A trademark represented by a distinctive typeface or lettering style; like a logo

Zesty means being lively, enthusiastic
and spirited.

The heartbeat of your company—the thing that sets you apart from the rest, and highlights the heart and soul of your brand.

Navigating the brandscape as we map the areas needed for greater visibility and brand recall. Zesty Maps™ explore things such as colour, logo, photography, typeface, imagery, substrate, language, and other key elements. Using these maps, we can bring concepts to life with confidence that they will achieve juicy market results.