Propaganda - Transforming brand and business equity


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Brand Multiple


At Propaganda, we developed Brand MultipleTM because we saw a real need in the market for a 360-degree brand aid, which could release the brand’s equity. It is a powerful tool, and the surest way to multiply the value of your brand.

Brand MultipleTM follows a detailed and thorough process, starting with a complete understanding of the client’s brief and a clear definition of the project. This is followed by three phases - diagnosis, prescription and treatment - to answer the specific needs of the brand.

Diagnosis
provides a 360-degree brand audit. For the buyer, it evaluates the true brand value and ensures that they know the strategic implications of their business aspirations. For the seller, this audit identifies ways of boosting a brand’s health, perception and, subsequently, its market value.

Prescription
is the stage where the business buyer is recommended a strategy for brand growth, based on the diagnosis. The strategic recommendation is directly aligned to the brand’s business objectives. For the seller, this stage provides insight into the way the brand can be best positioned. After evaluating all strategic alternatives, we will define the one that will deliver optimum multiple value during sale.

Treatment
is the critical implementation stage. It sees us working with the business buyer to implement a focused and defined brand strategy to achieve growth. For the seller, this stage will execute the identified brand strategy to ensure it is primed for profitable sale, and that potential buyers are made aware of the offer and the opportunities.

Brand Discovery


Brand Discovery knows the power of independent research. It’s the only way to unearth brand truths and develops a rich understanding of your business DNA. It’s the only way to unlock real opinions, real perceptions about your brand.

Discovery unearths key target audience and stakeholder insights, and uses these to create a compelling and differentiating proposition, and then communicates that proposition creatively. This program was born out of Propaganda’s belief that in order to deliver commercially accountable and strategically focussed marketing plans, we must get under the skin of our clients businesses.


The first, and core, phase
of Brand Discovery is a bespoke, rigorous programme of research, scoped and developed by the planning team. It is based on the client’s specific business situation.

The second phase
of the process is brand and proposition development. This is where the planning and creative teams at Propaganda analyse, interrogate and challenge the research to uncover the significance and implications for our clients businesses.

The final phase
concentrates on the strategic marketing plan. Propaganda will present different marketing plans in line with the agreed business objectives, financial targets and marketing budgets for the brand. This stage sees the Brand Discovery process culminating into a differentiated, strategically sound plan for the brand launch.

Brand Discovery helps us to understand the very essence of your brand, based on truth and unbiased insight; based on unclouded independent research. At the end of the Discovery process, we will know your brand and your consumer better than anyone else. And, that includes you.

Brand Lab


You know what your consumer is doing, thanks to quantitative research. But do you know why? If you want your brand to make an impact strong enough to change consumer behaviour and perception, you first need to know why they behave as they do; why they perceive your brand as they do.

Propaganda’s BrandLab team knows how to talk to consumers to get the truth, and not just focus-group answers. We believe in asking ‘why’ till we cannot ask ‘why’ anymore. Only then can we get a true brand insight. And only then can we develop an insight-rich marketing and advertising campaign brief that will influence your consumers in the way you want.

BrandLab helps you to understand how you can make your brand fit your consumers’ needs, instead of the other way around. You can only do that when you have crucial questions answered. Why is your consumer buying you? Or why are they not? Why do they connect to your brand, or, why they don’t.

By finding these answers, BrandLab also gives you the power to not just know what consumers need today, but also predict what they will need tomorrow. It helps your brand to stay ahead, and form a lasting relationship with them.

Through our BrandStarTM model we deliver a single-word equity that truly differentiates and strengthens your brand’s position and directs resultant campaign strategies.

BrandLab is here to out-think your competitors, and not outspend them.

Creative Logic


At Propaganda, our creative team will not just know your brand; they will know your business. Because here, creative doesn’t shy away from semantics.

Our creative planning department develops insight-rich briefs that enable and encourage the pursuit of the big idea. We will challenge the codes of your sector, blend strategic experience with tactical understanding, and finally bring everything together in our creative expression of your brand. Our ultimate aim is not just to build a brand. It is to build a brand with equity.

Our design department is passionate without being precious. That is what helps them to create stunning, award-winning work that also wins in the market. At Propaganda, we believe that a piece of creative can be dramatic, expressive and iconic, and be strategically strong at the same time. Logic and creativity - no brand should have to choose one and forfeit the other.

Propaganda has enjoyed huge success in creative award shows. But the awards would mean nothing to the creative team if our brands were not as successful in the real world, where the consumer is the judge.

Creative Logic creates brands that stand for something. Creatively and strategically sound work does not need to play safe or take the middle path. Every piece of work in our portfolio has had the confidence to challenge norms and be different because they are rooted in logic.

News

Propaganda wins S.O.P.H.I.E Foundation account

Full service advertising and communications campaign to be launched in celebration of Sophie Lancaster and to support fight to stamp out intolerance


Propaganda, the strategic and creative agency, today announced that it has won the marketing account, without pitch, for S.O.P.H.I.E, the Foundation set up in memory of Sophie Lancaster, who was murdered in 2007. Propaganda will work in conjunction with Sophie's mother Sylvia to promote the positive nature of different subcultures, to campaign for tolerance within society, and to provide a lasting legacy for Sophie, a young, intelligent, caring and beautiful girl who was murdered, simply because she dressed differently.

Propaganda is developing a full marketing and communications programme for the Foundation (which stands for Stamp Out Prejudice Hatred and Intolerance Everywhere) that transcends all media platforms to successfully position the brand. It will be launched in November 2008 with a UK-wide press and outdoor advertising campaign. The campaign is inspired by Sophie's love of life, her freedom of expression, her desire to be individual, and the positive way in which she embraced who she was. The adverts will celebrate this, balanced with conveying the shocking reality of her murder in order to promote a new tolerance that is accepting of the different subcultures and the positivity that they bring to society.

On Saturday, 11th August 2007, Sophie and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, were returning to their new home, walking through Stubbylee Park in Bacup, Lancashire. A gang of youths, aged between 15 and 17 savagely attacked Robert without provocation; when he was beaten unconscious they turned on Sophie who was cradling her boyfriend, trying to protect him. Laughing and egging each other on they kicked, punched and jumped repeatedly up and down on Sophie's head; both attacks were of such severity that the police could not tell which was male or female. The leading police officer described it as ‘one of the most violent murders he has come across in his lengthy career'.

Robert was in a coma with bleeding on his brain, but gradually recovered over the following two weeks. Sophie did not wake up, and despite thirteen days of hopes and prayers, Sylvia finally had to switch off her daughter's life support machine. The judge described the murder of Sophie and the attack on Robert as a ‘hate crime' and ‘degrading humanity'. The five violent offenders received sentences ranging from four years to life. They showed no remorse.

On seeing the initial creative work for the campaign, Sylvia Lancaster commented:

"I was so nervous before the meeting, but when I saw the work, it perfectly communicated the core message of the Foundation, and how I want Sophie to be remembered. For me it was really important to balance Sophie's character as a sensitive, intelligent and caring girl, proud of who she was as well as conveying the horrendous and senseless circumstances of her murder. We have to hope that through the Foundation we can change people's feelings and misunderstanding of alternative subcultures and drive out the feelings of hatred that seem to plague our society. It would certainly be a fitting and lasting legacy for Sophie who had so much she wanted to achieve, and so much to give to the world; an opportunity that in life was pointlessly taken away from her."

Julian Kynaston, chairman, Propaganda, commented:

"This has simply been the hardest job we have had to do and it is impossible not to get caught up in the emotion. We could have easily used disturbing images of Sophie in hospital that have been in the media to generate the shock factor, but Sylvia was rightfully adamant that the campaign should be positive and peaceful. Just seeing Sophie's beautiful face both conveys the way that she lived her life and the shocking reality of what has been taken away. I am delighted that Sylvia has given us the opportunity to help work with the Foundation, which continues to generate so much support and empathy on a worldwide basis. For us this is the beginning, and our determination to succeed has never been stronger."

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Julian Kynaston, chairman, Propaganda, commented:"This has simply been the hardest job we have had to do and it is impossible not to get caught up in the emotion. We could have easily used disturbing images of Sophie in hospital that have been in the media to generate the shock factor, but Sylvia was rightfully adamant that the campaign should be positive and peaceful. Just seeing Sophie's beautiful face both conveys the way that she lived her life and the shocking reality of what has been taken away. I am delighted that Sylvia has given us the opportunity to help work with the Foundation, which continues to generate so much support and empathy on a worldwide basis. For us this is the beginning, and our determination to succeed has never been stronger."


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