Vertical and horizontal branding
Better or different or both! You decide.
Brands are now adopting the vertical and horizontal branding strategies for growth of their brand. According to the branding strategies, a brand should be placed in market by giving huge impact on online and offline audience by their attractive product and content and that’s where vertical and horizontal branding entered.
Branding is requires a very long process to establish a brand in market by giving it a good and unique identity. And for this the most important thing is brand should either be “better” or “different”.So now coming to the topic
What is vertical branding?
Vertical branding is
branding in which a brand differentiates and describes itself as “better”, it
shows itself as having the better product than any other brand. For example:
apple is producing the apps such as computers and phones, I pads etc, but it
makes itself as being better than any other brand by introducing the slimmer screen
and a pretty well software.
This vertical
branding strategy is in trend since few years, many companies like: Himalaya water
bottles, coca cola, axe deodorant etc. are using the same strategy to build a
factor of trust in their audience. The trust is also the factor for gaining the
traffic and converting the viewers into clients.
While claiming that
a company is better than any other brand, it make the third party believe that
this company must have something good and make them try the product at least
for once. A
company with a vertical brand strategy utilizes a technology, material,
structure, or process that makes the product better in some objective
measurement. Examples of these objective measurements include horsepower,
gigahertz, miles per gallon, cost per acquisition, server response time, etc.
What is horizontal branding?
Horizontal branding is when
a brand acclaims itself or differentiates itself as being “different” or being “unique”.
It shows itself having so many different qualities than the brand of similar niche;
it makes itself as being different. For example: Mini cars, these are the
quirky smaller cars, which target to attract stylish people. In horizontal
branding, the product is usually appealing a certain type of customer, and that
becomes their quality customer.
In this horizontal branding
strategy customer is loyal towards the brand much more than the vertical
branding because it tends to show the unique nature f their product which is
not at all a lie, the product is meant to be different and hence the trust of
customer remains constant.
The price is little high but
customers cannot compare the price as being a unique and different product.
While claiming a company is
unique and different, this attracts a person by gaining t he attention to the
uniqueness of product rather than being better or not, “the change in lifestyle is always attractive” and hence the buyers
get the eager to adopt the change and brands apply this strategy to get the
traffic.
just soon going to post the further explaination, effects and types.
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