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The issue threatening to mute sonic branding

WithFeeling's John Smeddle shares cautionary reminders to brand caretakers in the region who are primed for sonic branding.

John Smeddle, Head of Creative, WithFeeling on sonic branding within luxury brand marketingJohn Smeddle, Head of Creative, WithFeeling

Sameness. It’s a problem in sonic branding that needs to be sorted out quickly if this marketing tool doesn’t want to be relegated to the status of audio wallpaper.
This may seem contrary to any number of posts or articles you’ve seen recently (including from us) about the increased deployment of sonic branding in the GCC as part of user experience and not just an audio signature.
But research suggests an alarming percentage of brands which are using original music and sound across all customer touchpoints are all sounding like each other.
That’s a polite way of saying that your sonic branding is, at worst, either delivering the user experience of your competitor and market category, or at b


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.