Brand Monitoring and Guidance
Brand Growth & Brand Tracking Solutions
The brand era has changed, but the power of brand hasn’t.
The strongest brands create value in more ways than one.
9x Higher volume share4x More likely to grow value share
2x Higher price paid
Kantar helps brands stay ahead in a fast-moving environment with a constant pulse on human and digital signals, augmented by synthetic data boost. Backed by decades of experience and global brand experts, our guidance enables faster, more informed responses that drive real commercial value.
At the heart of our approach is the Meaningful, Different and Salient (MDS) framework – the only independently validated system proven to connect brand actions to enterprise value. MDS reveals the strength of your brand as an asset, how it grows, and where to focus next.
Our solutions signal what truly matters:
- Diagnosing brand equity to unlock future value
- Keeping your brand on course through continuous tracking and forecasting
- Maximising campaign impact to accelerate growth
With 7 out of the world’s top 10 most valuable brands using Kantar for brand insight, you can be sure with the clarity, foresight, and confidence to manage brand performance and translate it into brand growth.
Find out more about Kantar’s independently validated MDS framework by the Marketing Accountability Standards Board.
Our Solutions
Discover your top brand equity indicators in seconds
Kantar BrandSnapshot powered by BrandZ offers brand equity insights instantly and completely free. Access data from the world’s most extensive brand equity study available now in an interactive dashboard.Key Features
Data
The latest BrandZ data at your fingertips.
Truly global scale
Intelligence on strengths and weaknesses of over 10,000 brands across 850+ categories in 42 markets.
Trusted brand equity framework
Kantar's Meaningful Different Salient (MDS) framework is the only brand equity framework that is globally accredited and externally validated to deliver commercial outcomes.
Unlock the future value of your brand
Kantar BrandEvaluator is an agile brand equity measurement tool providing a robust assessment of your brand’s current position and future potential allowing you to confidently make strategic brand decisions.Key Features
Embedded with Meaningful Different Salient (MDS) framework
All the richness and rigour of Kantar's brand equity research experience distilled into the product, ready for you to apply for your brand.
Results
In as few as 4 days.
Configurable
To your brand, your competition and your category context.
Harness the power of your brand with AI-enriched insights.
Kantar BrandDynamics is a tech-enabled, always-on brand tracking solution. AI-enriched foresight on business leading metrics allow you to keep tabs on your competitors in real time and promptly invest marketing resources.Key Features
AI toolkit
Our proprietary AI toolkit gives you daily lag-free and noise-free brand signals and data trends. Its daily forecasts help you anticipate the market and stay ahead of competition.
Industry-leading
Industry-leading fraud and bot detection AI keeps the panel clean and human, resulting in the highest quality data in the market. Our Qubed anti-fraud software uses state-of-the-art machine learning and deep neural networks to process over 300 features of each survey and score half a million surveys per day to identify fraud that humans can not and then removing them in seconds.
Meaningful Different Salient
Embedded with Meaningful Different Salient (MDS) framework - Be confident in your decisions with MDS proven to deliver commercial outcomes.
Future-proof the value of your brand
Kantar BrandHealth utilises fast-moving measures to track your brand and monitor your competition. Neutralize threats and quickly measure the impact of live campaigns using decision-ready data.Get a rich understanding of your brand equity with the Meaningful Different Salient (MDS) framework - proven to drive brand growth.
The BrandHealth dashboard blends short-term measures enabling fast course correction with an overview of the long-term trajectory of your brand.
Key Features
Best-in-class
Future ready tracking program for your brand, your category, your market - built on 50+ years of experience tracking the world's most valuable brands.
Meaningful Different Salient
Embedded with Meaningful Different Salient (MDS) framework - Be confident in your decisions with MDS proven to deliver commercial outcomes. Actionable
And decision-ready brand health KPIs give you a perfect blend of short-term indicators and long-term measures of brand growth.
Contact your Kantar team for more information or write to insights@kantar.com
Stay on top of disruptors and expand your view of the market
Kantar BrandDigital is a monthly brand tracker powered by digital search. Fuelled by Kantar’s proprietary AI toolkit, BrandDigital provides a much-expanded view of the market: geographies, languages, categories and brands as well as hard-to-reach markets.Key Features
AI toolkit
Kantar's proprietary AI toolkit captures and analyses everything consumers are searching for, in their own words, to ensure brands do not miss a thing, without restrictions of pre-set parameters or taxonomies.
Unparalleled access
To over 4.3 billion digital consumers, enabling you to cover more regions and geographies compared to working with other agencies. Machine-led, human refined approach
The machine does the data collection, collation, classification at speed and scale while our digital experts ensure the data is curated to deliver insights addressing your brand priorities.
Contact your Kantar team for more information or write to insights@kantar.com
Leverage the DNA of your brand to accelerate growth
Kantar BrandStructures identifies the top perceptual associations your brand should focus on. Expert consultants apply advanced statistical modelling to existing tracking data and other available data sources to explain the relationship between brand attitudes, equity and even sales. It identifies which levers will help you accelerate brand growth.Key Features
Applying the same modeling engine that developed MDS (Meaningful Different Salient) framework
Over the last 5 years we have delivered nearly 2000 brand models, for 400+ brands in over 45 countries
Unique brand expertise and human understanding of over 1500 Kantar analytics experts deliver strategic insights
Contact your Kantar team for more information or write to insights@kantar.com
Faster, smarter in-market campaign decisions
Kantar BrandCampaign helps you understand the in-market effectiveness of your campaign. Built on learnings around creative effectiveness, it provides an in-market assessment of the brand-building ability of advertising across all media channels. BrandCampaign allows marketing and brand teams to make better decisions about ongoing and future advertising investments.Key Features
Measures
Campaign performance while live and diagnoses reasons for performance to optimise creative mix.
Results
On your dashboard in as few as 48 hours.
Benchmark
Against robust ad tracking norms across markets and media types.
A Kantar-trained AI assistant to support your brand growth ambitions
Trained by Kantar brand experts, KaiA understands your brand growth needs and provides immediate answers to your most pressing questions in conversational, meaningful language. KaiA connects Kantar intelligence to consumer marketing, brand and sales data to give instant actionable insights that are easily understood and accessible across your organisation.Key Features
Leverage
GPT technology to summarise large volumes of complex data in a conversational manner in seconds rather than days
Benefit
From Kantar's rich experience of your busniess needs, providing insights specific to your categories, brands and business unitsDrive
Deeper insights by consolidating multiple datasets, reports and advanced analytics in one place, empowering your teams to self-serve
Contact your Kantar team for more information or write to insights@kantar.com
Case studies
Perspectives
Q: What is brand growth and why does it matter?
A: Brand growth ensures long-term relevance, improved customer loyalty, and competitive advantage.
Q: How does marketing intelligence support brand guidance?
A: Marketing intelligence uses data and analytics to shape brand KPIs and inform strategy.
A: Brand KPIs track awareness, loyalty, and equity, helping measure performance against objectives.
Q: How do I know if my brand is growing?
A: Measuring changes in sales, awareness, and market share are key growth indicators.
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