We look at the challenges to conducting research in Egypt and how to overcome the barriers to capturing quality data by going mobile. Charles and Praveen discuss the findings of a local study on handsets and share brand equity findings that puts Millward Brown Egypt at the forefront of innovation in market research.
Charles Foster, Managing Director, Millward Brown Africa & Middle East & Praveen Abraham, Country Manager Egypt, Millward Brown
2. is the set of associations
(ideas, memories and
feelings) in the mind of a
consumer.
What is
a brand?
KNOWLEDGE
Facts about the brand
(an understanding of what
it is, what it’s called,
what it looks like)
EMOTION
Feelings,
social values,
desirability
EXPERIENCE
What the brand experience
is/would be like
(its benefits, how it is
used or found)
4. Salient
DifferentMeaningful
The five key inputs…
Meets
Needs
Affinity
Unique
Dynamic
Awareness
Intensity
The MDS approach has inputs which short,
quick, & easier to administer
Please drag each brand onto the scale to indicate how
different they seem to others in the market. You can
place more than one brand in each box or leave a box
empty. Please place all brands on the scale before
continuing.This type of questioning improved the model fit by 16%
Further development work through BrandZ:
>40 countries, >50,00 brands, >800,000 consumers
5. MDS derives three key summary metrics of brand equity
related specifically to core business objectives
P O W E R
is a prediction of the brand’s
volume share based purely
on perception, absent of
activation factors.
P R E M I U M
is the ability of a brand to
command a price premium
relative to the category
average, based purely on
perceptions.
P O T E N T I A L
is the probability that the
brand
will grow value share based
purely on current
perceptions.
THREE KEY SUMMARY METRICS OF BRAND EQUITY
Are consumers predisposed to
choose the brand over others?
Are consumers predisposed to
pay more for the brand?
Are consumers predisposed to
stick with the brand in future
or try it?
6. Meaningfully different brands…
7
E A C H O F T H E S E M E T R I C S A R E C R E A T E D F R O M M E A S U R E S O F
H O W M E A N I N G F U L , D I F F E R E N T A N D S A L I E N T B R A N D S A R E .
… Have much greater
POTENTIAL to gain
value share in the future
… Can command a
price PREMIUM
… Have the POWER
to capture significantly
MORE VOLUME
POWER
PREMIUM
POTENTIAL
7. Apple: unique personality and tangible
product innovation = differentiation
worth paying for
137 248 131
137 158 272
Avr =
100
$147b
MEANINGFUL DIFFERENT SALIENT
Avr =
100
Coca-Cola: first to mind for billions of
thirsty people = dominant volume share
for impulse category
$80b
10. Mobile interviewing is the fastest
growing methodology in the world,
because…
11
Consumers busier
Less accessible housing
Poorer quality ‘traditional’ data
Demand for faster feedback
11. Why consider mobile surveys?
12
ACTUALLY THE REAL QUESTION SHOULD BE WHY NOT?
1.91
BILLION
37%
GROWTH
15%
OFWEB
smartphones users by the end of 2015
– overtaking laptops and PCs*
in the number of global 3G subscribers in the past year**
traffic comes via mobile – more than double last year;
Mobile traffic share already over 50% in India and China***
*Source: e.Marketer Global report June 2014 **Source: Informa WCIS;
***Source: StatCounter Global Stats, 9/12
17. 18
MOBILE DATA
MATCHES UP
TO MARKET
SHARE
OVER TIME, MOBILE DATA MATCHES UP TO MARKET REALITY EVEN MORE DUE TO
THE ABILITY TO COVER WIDER GEOGRAPHIES NATIONALLY
21. 22
MOBILE SURVEYS GIVE YOU GREAT
SHORT TERM ADVANTAGES
Consumers are connected to their
mobile phones all the time and find
it comfortable and engaging as a
communication medium better
interview context
Studies have shown that without
interviewers (over)prompting, mobile data is
more discriminating between brands and
reflect market reality better better data
quality
Speed of data access and deliverables
increases significantly.
26. SYNCING IS MORE THAN JUST
GETTING GREATER FREQUENCY
27
Technology
helps
getting
better
coverage
for the study
& proof of
data
capture
27. It helps us
zoom in into
every
location to
have the
spread of
interviews
Cairo
Alex
28. Study details – Who & What?
29
Males and Females
Between 15 – 40 Years Old
Currently have an active
SIM in Egypt
Samples from Pan Egypt
1. Mobile handset brand
equity
2. Mobile internet behavior
29. Quick Facts
30
88%
answered thesurveys
using SMARTPHONE
38%ArefromDualSIMphone
46%Answered using a
SAMSUNGDevice
3 DAYS
To conduct
514 interviews
Minutes on
average to
complete
the survey
30. No environment is 100% mobile-free anymore!!
Relaxing 89% Travelling 61% With Friends 55% Watching TV 54%
While in bed 50% While Eating 23% In a Store In toilet 13%13%
31. Handsets or Hand sticks?!
32
89% go online on their phone daily
87%I don’t leave their home without their smart phones
I first look into my phone for mails, messages, updates, or
calls once I wake up82%
Says that they would rather sacrifice TV than Smartphone
86%
32. HOW CAN ADVERTISERS
TAKE ADVANTAGE
35
The challenge for advertisers is to:
INTRODUCING THE BRAND
PROPELLER
33. 36
38.3 17 16.7 13.5 6.5
Meaningful
154
Different
127
Salient
149
135
106
168
108
73
88
133
69
87
113
105
80
Take a Guess : Which Brands have higher Power?
Identify the propeller of brands.
34. 37
How does the brand stack up among “Youth”, “Cairo”
Youth –
15-25yo Cairo
39%
17%
19%
12%
5%
37%
16%
16%
14%
9%
Bought within
last 1 year
38%
20%
15%
13%
6%
35. Being Meaningfully different matters to Egypt customers – a lot
for Smart phones
Meaningful
Salient
Different
32%
59%
9%
Meaningful
Salient
Different
55%
30%
15%
POWER PREMIUM
In mobile handset category
POWER or Volume is driven
by ‘Meaningful’
However if brands want to
charge a PREMIUM, they
need to be ‘Different’.
36. Equity Map of mobile brands
39
iPhone along with Samsung and HTC are the meaningfully different brands ;
Microsoft and BB are considered different
Samsung
iPhone
SonyNokia
HTC
Huawei
Other Chinese Brands
Blackberry
LG
G-Tide
Microsoft
35
55
75
95
115
135
155
175
31 51 71 91 111 131 151
MEANINGFUL
DIFFERENT
SIZE OF POINT = SALIENT
38. Image Diagnosis - Marketing Levers
We build models for each study which help us identify how image associations group together
to drive the components of equity.
Emotional
Superior
Relevance
Service
Modern
Makes me feel empowered
Makes me feel always connected
Technologically advanced
Innovative brand
Offers a wide range of products
Easy to use
Best after sales services
Stylish design
Meaningful
Salient
Different
55%
30%
15%
POWER
39. Which attributes should I focus on to drive equity?
The emotional factors has the highest importance to be able to see the brand as
MEANINGUL and while technical superiority helps the brands to be seen DIFFERENT
31%
22%
18%
12%
17%
Meaningful
Contribution to Meaningful
22%
30%
18%
15%
15%
Different
11%
3%
57%
27%
2%
Salient
Contribution to SalientContribution to Different
Emotional Superior Relevance Service Style
41. Potential of brands to grow in future
POWER
POTENTIAL
38.3 17 16.7 13.5 6.5
90 82 56 34 77
42. Momentum of mobile brands
47
HTC shows high growth potential to its share of equity while Nokia in Cooling off stage…
Samsung
iPhone
Sony
Nokia
HTC
Huawei
Other Chinese Brands
Blackberry
LG
G-Tide
Microsoft
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% 30.0% 35.0% 40.0% 45.0%
POTENTIAL
POWER % (share)
Isyourbrandsetto
growinthefuture?
Are consumers predisposed
to choose you?
HotHeating Up
Cold Cooling Off
HTC is a hot brand (with high
power and potential) among
high income and older
audience and from Cairo
MS Lumia is having a very
high momentum among lower
income and age audience
43. But the story doesn't ends here …
48
Predisposition doesn’t always translate to action. Distribution and pricing
factors often intervene in the pragmatic forms of availability, visibility &
affordability – these can be barriers or facilitators to purchase.
Brand
Predisposition
Brand Selection
44. Hence, its necessary to understand the linkage between
Predisposition and Volume…
49
Brand Selection
% of market which is
CONVERTED to you at
the point of purchase
(i.e. RISK)
% of market which is
DIVERTED away
from you
(i.e OPPURTUNITY)
The language is aligned to how you, as marketers, intuitively think about
your brand’s performance
45. Samsung and Nokia are the only brand that gained on its market
share with more conversion at POS than others…
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Power Fulfilled
at point of sale
Diverted at
point of sale
Totalshareofclaimedusage
Converted at
point of sale
Power Score 38.3% 17.0% 16.7% 13.5% 6.5%
25.5%
5.3% 4.8%
8.6%
1.7%
20.7%
2.4% 2.9%
20.7%
1.2%
12.8% 11.6% 11.9%
4.9% 4.9%
1
2
3
Net gain/loss +7.9 -9.3 -9.0 +15.8 -4.2
Actual Volume 46.2% 7.7% 7.7% 29.3% 2.3%
46. 51
Power Fulfilled
at point of sale
Diverted at
point of sale
Totalshareofclaimedusage
Converted at
point of sale
Power Score 38.3%
25.5%
5.3% 4.8%
8.6%
1.7%
20.7%
2.4% 2.9%
20.7%
1.2%
12.8% 11.6% 11.9%
4.9% 4.9%
1
2
3
Net gain/loss +7.9
Actual Volume 46.2%
9.13
iPhone Sony Nokia htc others
5.76 6.38 2.18
1. Whom I lost to / gained from?
Samsung gained on volume from iPhone, Sony and htc while losing
majorly to Nokia (Lumia)
47. 52
2. Why we gained / lost at POS – Waterfall chart
38.3
46.2
4.2 -2 -2 1.5
3.9
3.1
2.21
-2.6
Power
Score
Not
available
Attractive
color /
design
Salesman
reco
Free
applications
Bundle
offers
Not
displayed
User friendly Price Claimed
Volume
share
Non availability and non display of other pre-disposed brands (iPhone, htc ) made
consumers buy Samsung …
Attractive color/design (of Lumia) coupled with sales man recommendation on windows
platform and price edge made consumers deviate from Samsung …
48. 53
To Sum up
The MDS framework:
Digital data-collection
Helps you build meaningful brands & grow brand value
Holistic in approach, yet can diagnose in detail the
barriers & facilitators to brand growth
Validated and linked to brands’ financial performance.
Consumers are spending more time on digital devices
Gives us better access to different consumer profiles
Better quality data with realistically short questionnaires
50. For more information contact:
Charles Foster – charles.foster@millwardbrown.com
Praveen Abraham – praveen.abraham@millwardbrown.com
Notes de l'éditeur
Honoured to be here.
Excetement & passion for Egypt & among our staff for MB in Egypt
Team was started with 8 people, grown to almost 30… Very proud of MB team & Egypt
Going to be discussing
An overview of our insight into Brand equity / predisposition to brands
A viewpoint on using mobile as an interview platform
Praveen showing you the results of a study done in Egypt on Mobile handsets using mobile phones as the interview methodology
So as we know brands aren’t very tangible…the product or the service we sell is, but not the brand and it is all made up in consumers minds…so how de we equate that to financial value.
We have long asserted that a brand exists in the mind of the consumer. Understanding that a brand is made up of the associations that live in a consumers mind is the first step in understanding how these associations affect consumer decision making.
Consumers have an impression of brands – ideas and emotions - which exerts an influence on their purchase behavior. This influence stems from the motivational power of the impressions associated with the brand in consumers’ minds. Strong brands predispose people to buy them..Our framework is based on key learning about how successful brands develop meaning, differentiate themselves and create salience.
Our new model, the Meaningfully Different Framework, will serve as the backbone for all of our solutions and brand advisory services.
To develop the Meaningfully Different Framework, Millward Brown used new research and analytic techniques to explore brand performance across three unique dimensions:
Beliefs: Extensive multi-country, multi-category evaluation of the Millward Brown brand equity database covering survey-based attitudes on more than 50,000 brands, and a culmination of 40 years of brand equity research.
Brains: New neuroscience research into how ideas and emotions shape consumer predisposition to brands.
Behavior: Ground breaking validation of the new brand equity model linked directly to sales using behavioral data.
Our findings revealed that meaningfully different brands are stronger. They capture five times more volume, command a 13% price premium and are four times more likely to grow value share during the next 12 months, compared to brands lacking meaningful difference. In fact, meaningfully different brands are expected to grow value share an average of 6.9% per year
Unique advantage of being rooted in the BrandZ database. Our knowledge bank of brands built up over 20 years of measuring brands annually around the world.
Brand Z base tells us that – years of measurement of equity tells us what brands grow & shrink & why…
A brands value lies in whether people will buy the service above all others and whether they will be willing to pay more…and the associations that a brand builds needs to deliver on these two elements to ensure commercial benefits
Understanding brand equity is key – it contributes to not just a consumers propensity to chose a brand, but also their willingness to pay more for it. These both contribute to a company’s revenue and profit.
Our solution provides a headline measure for each of these.
All three are built out the same core components (MDS), but mixed differently in each case.
We have found that generally Power / volume choice is dominated by Meaningful and Salient which explains why our competitors tend to focus only on these two), b
ut Different is much more important to Premium, where Salient has less of a role.
Finally, Potential sits somewhere between the two, but crucially is generated by looking at how Meaningful Different & Salient compare to expectation based on brand size.
Summary metrics that matter AND mean something!
POWER is a prediction of the brand’s volume share based purely on perception, absent of activation factors.
PREMIUM is the ability of a brand to command a price premium relative to the category average, based purely on perceptions,
POTENTIAL is the probability that the brand will grow value share based purely on perceptions, absent of activation factors.
..and because we have developed these proven metrics, we have been able to streamline our tracking offer focusing in on just what matters, to provide these measures at the core of what we deliver to help you grow your brand sales now and in the future.
VOLUME Source: Shopcom panel data merged with equity survey responses. Based on comparing Power scores to shopping habits of 1600 consumers. Analysis includes 65 brands in 4 categories. Based on comparing brands with High Power Scores (top 25%) to brands with low Power scores (bottom 25%).
PREMIUM Source: Shopcom panel data merged with equity survey responses. Based on comparing Premium scores to actual prices paid by 1600 consumers. Analysis includes 65 brands in 4 categories. Based on comparing brands with high Premium Scores (top 25%) to brands with low Premium scores (bottom 25%).
POTENTIAL Source: Millward Brown’s validation dataset, including 350 brands from diverse categories (CPGs and non CPGs). Based on comparing the odds of growth with high Premium Scores (top 25%) to brands with low Premium scores (bottom 25%).
In fact, meaningfully different brands are expected to grow value share an average of 6.9% per year
As an example…2 very strong brands…and how they perform on driving MDS…firstly you will notice that they over index on all 3 areas…which means strong brands need all 3, but the headline strength can be different…
As an example…2 very strong brands…and how they perform on driving MDS…firstly you will notice that they over index on all 3 areas…which means strong brands need all 3, but the headline strength can be different…
But… MDS can also be done on mobile
So whether its globe or Egypt …
Its simply not because mobile penetration crossed desktop, its more about the mobile traffic against desktop and also the level of engagement we / consumers have with this device. Let see some of the occasions where mobiles are used …
Insert a globe picture somewhere …
% key insights seen from the data…
Numerous security measures to cut out various attempted scams…
Thanks Charles. We are now going to look at a study we have completed via mobile in Egypt about equity of mobile handsets – to say more interviews done in smart phones about smart phones….
Before I share you the findings of Equity study through the meaningfully different framework, I would like to highlight couple of points which we learnt from the mobile studies across the region… 1. We are really impressed on the data quality through mobile … Lets see that through a sample survey video
Thanks to touch screen technology in smart phones – which allows us to create a drag and drop mechanism for scaling questions with multiple brands.
Which increases the engagement level of respondents and thereby reducing the length of interviewing - and in turn helps again on having better quality… And the responses are genuine
The second key benefit is geo-location tracking. This chart is the geo-location mapping of the mobile study conducted. It helps us to understand the spread of interviews. Technology has increased to the extent of controlling the number of interviews done within a set range of distance – I mean we can even set a rule that the gps location of each interview has to be in certain distance or we can set as within certain radius, only certain number of interviews can be done.
We can zoom further to any micro level to within a city and even area or streets…
Lets come to the study details and findings … Its conducted among dash dash dash …. In that 15 minute of time we had with respondents, we could not only administer the brand equity study but also some mobile and nternet behaviours.
Some quick facts …
Lets talk about some key consumer mobile behavior … Even Relaxing time is not alone – yes she is alone but with her smart phone… Even while chatting with friends, half of them still interact also with smart phones …Even while watching the same … And to the extent one in eight of us having a habit of using smart phones in toilets …
The way we interact with smart phones, we, almost everyone became addicted and attached to the hand sets … Earlier it replaced wrist watch, camera, FM, Audio player and now its started occupying TV time – prime advertising medium… and even started replacing social gatherings and playgrounds … we are connected more than before in a virtual world …
What do all strong brands have in common in terms of their assocations…they are meaningful in consumers minds both on an emotional and rational level, the are unique in some way setting them apart from the competition and they come readily to mind when consumers consider the category
There are three types of consumer predisposition to brands. We have a measure for each one:
Consumers are predisposed to choose the brand over others. This will drive brand volume, so Power predicts volume share based entirely on perceptions, absent of activation factors. We report Power as a percentage share because we want to reflect the relationship it has with Volume Share.
Consumers are predisposed to pay more for the brand. This will allow the brand to charge more, so Premium predicts the price index your brand can command, based purely on perceptions, absent of activation factors. We report the Premium score as an index because we want to reflect the relationship it has with in-market Price Index
Consumers are predisposed to stick with the brand in the future, or try it. This will prime the brand for future value share growth and is predicted by Potential, similar to what Voltage2.0 did, but improved. We express Potential as a % representing probability of growth.
All three predisposition metrics are based on the same foundations (Meaningful, Different and Salient) combined differently. All three (Power, Premium and Potential) are validated to in-market results.
Predisposition and in-market barriers and facilitators allow us to determine what drives your financial performance and the best way for you to leverage volume share and/or to justify your price point now and in the future.
Successful brands are meaningful, different and salient. The ideal balance for a specific brand is a function of both the category and the primary mode of financial return—sales volume or premium pricing.
There are three types of consumer predisposition to brands. We have a measure for each one:
Consumers are predisposed to choose the brand over others. This will drive brand volume, so Power predicts volume share based entirely on perceptions, absent of activation factors. We report Power as a percentage share because we want to reflect the relationship it has with Volume Share.
Consumers are predisposed to pay more for the brand. This will allow the brand to charge more, so Premium predicts the price index your brand can command, based purely on perceptions, absent of activation factors. We report the Premium score as an index because we want to reflect the relationship it has with in-market Price Index
Consumers are predisposed to stick with the brand in the future, or try it. This will prime the brand for future value share growth and is predicted by Potential, similar to what Voltage2.0 did, but improved. We express Potential as a % representing probability of growth.
All three predisposition metrics are based on the same foundations (Meaningful, Different and Salient) combined differently. All three (Power, Premium and Potential) are validated to in-market results.
Predisposition and in-market barriers and facilitators allow us to determine what drives your financial performance and the best way for you to leverage volume share and/or to justify your price point now and in the future.
Coming to the equity study … Again before we start looking into findings, I want to explain our new way of visualizing the equity though a video
Hoping all of you would have easily understood the indexing of meaningful different and salient – lets go for a small guess / quiz … You are seeing propellers of 5 mobile brands … identify those with the order …
Sony Xperia’s equity among youth are relatively higher while iPhone equity is higher among ppl bought very recently….
When we tried to understand what drives power and premium of smart phones category, being meaningful plays a significant role in having power while being different helps on charging a premium
Salience least impacts power and premium in the category in general …
Being different is not just enough, a brand should be meaningfully different to propel growth and claim a premium …
So which brands are considered to be meaningfully different in Egypt…
Lumia and BB are considered to be different but only iPhone and Samsung are the meaningfully different brands … Htc also joins the race with their stylish and techologically advanced models.
Next you will be asking me definitely, what drives this meaningful and different or how do I drive my brand to be more meaningful or / and different …
Our image diagnosis helps managers understand the marketing levers …. We build models for each study which help us identify how image associations group together to drive the components of equity.
And regress it to each meaningful, different and salient to guide you on what to focus to drive to me more meaningful and different …
In this case, Feeling empowered and connected plays a significant role for a brand to be seen MEANINGUL and while technical superiority helps the brands to be seen DIFFERENT and relevant suitable model and service support drives salience …
Then when we can further understand what differentiates each brand and what to focus on communication…
Technical superiority with stylish design and the emotional empowerment makes iPhone to be a meaningfully dufferent brand – HTC and Sony has a similar structure to iPhone but differs on design and service accordingly ….
This chart to be plotted with all attributes not factors …
Having understood what drives brand power , its more important to understand what is the result volume and the future growth potential.
We provide the future potential of brands … Samsung, iPhone and htc are having high potential for future growth than others … By plotting power and potential, it will help us to understand which brands are hot in the market and which are heating up or cooling off … In Egypt, smartphone consumer says htc is heating up while Nokia is cooling off … and to an extent Microsoft Lumia is heating up.
We provide the future potential of brands … Samsung, iPhone and htc are having high potential for future growth than others … By plotting power and potential, it will help us to understand which brands are hot in the market and which are heating up or cooling off … In Egypt, smartphone consumer says htc is heating up while Nokia is cooling off … and to an extent Microsoft Lumia is heating up.
But on reality, the story doesn’t ends here by me saying what is your power, premium and potential in the market …
Predisposition doesn’t always translate to action. Distribution and pricing factors often intervene in the pragmatic forms of availability, visibility & affordability – these can be barriers or facilitators to purchase which results in the actual tangible measure we all relate as our success – the volume …
Lets have a look at our data….
We know the power of the brand – ie the pre-disposed consumer base for each brand ….
Talk about chart – fullfilled + converted result Volume … then diverted to net loss/gain …
Samsung and Lumia has high conversion at point of sale and results in net gain while others lose…
Now I know there will be three more questions … 1) on converted and diverted, whom I got it and lost to 2) why my brand lost/ gained – what is that barrier and facilitator and 3) how should I minimize the diversion … i.e. how do I make use of the oppurtunity – who are pre-disposed to my brand but not resulted in volume
I’ll show now with samsung example who gained and lost to ….
And the key facilitator and barriers ….
Non availability and non display of other pre-disposed brands (iPhone, htc ) made consumers buy Samsung …
Attractive color/design (of Lumia) coupled with sales man reco on windows platform made consumers deviate from Samsung …
For the third question on what should I do then …. Lets meet in your or our office ….
We look forward to create meaningful impact …
Honoured to be here.
Excetement & passion for Egypt & among our staff for MB in Egypt
Team was started with 8 people, grown to almost 30… Very proud of MB team & Egypt
Going to be discussing
An overview of our insight into Brand equity / predisposition to brands
A viewpoint on using mobile as an interview platform
Praveen showing you the results of a study done in Egypt on Mobile handsets using mobile phones as the interview methodology