Use Case
Brand Health Tracking
Supercharge your brand health tracker with mental availability and category entry points. Delve into the core of consumer cognition and behavior, providing actionable insights for lasting brand success.
Leveraging Mental Availability for Brand Health Tracking
Incorporating mental availability into your brand health tracking is a game-changer, delving deeper than more traditional methods as it goes beyond physical availability.
Taking the mental aspect into consideration will reveal your brand's genuine standing in the consumer psyche at different moments in time where a product would be relevant to a customer's decision — the so-called Category Entry Point.
Out with the old, in with the new
For well-known brands, traditional tracking methods can't show much growth, and for new brands, it's hard to stand out from bigger competitors.
Common tracking metrics like TOM (Top-of-Mind awareness) are good for new brands, but not as useful for well-known ones unless they're entering entirely new markets.
Advantages of Brand Health Tracking
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Mental availability considers context like situational cues, associations, and environmental triggers — yielding deeper comprehension of a brand's role in consumers' lives.
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Brands with high mental availability excel in capturing attention and driving sales, offering better predictive insights than traditional metrics.
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Mental availability mirrors real-world consumer behavior, gauging a brand's likelihood to surface in a consumer's mind in various contexts.
Use Case
Enhance brand awareness with insights
Method
Dominate recall with Mental Availability
Method
Discover choice triggers with CEPs
KPIs to measure
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Network Size (NS)
It quantifies the average number of CEPs associated with a particular brand, based on the people who have MPen for that brand. The more robust and extensive network of associations is, higher the likelihood of the brand being recalled across various buying scenarios. -
Mental Penetration (MPen)
The percentage of category buyers who link a specific brand to at least one Category Entry Point (CEP). It's akin to brand awareness but offers a more impartial view, with less bias toward larger brands. -
Mental Market Share (MMS)
It measures a brand's size in the minds of category buyers relative to all competitors and across all CEPs. This score adds up to 100% across all competitors and is highly correlated with actual market share. -
Share of Mind (SOM)
It is similar to MMS but is calculated exclusively based on individuals with MPen (brand knowers) for a specific brand.
Essential Brand Health Tracking questions
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To offer insights
Which product features and USPs make our offer more attractive to consumers compared to other offers?
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For campaign impact
What impact did specific campaigns or advertisements have on my brand and consumers?
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For brand performance
How have our main brand KPIs changed and developed over time, and how do they compare with the competition?
More use cases & methods
Tracking
Consumer tracking
Strategy
Target group analysis
Strategyp
Brand awareness
Activation
IAT (implicit association testing)
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