I£ANTAR M WARDBROW PT BRA D DAN E BRAND GUIDANCE 22 11 IT’S TIME TO THINK OF AS A GROWTH OPPORTUNITY essful disruptive brands have shown tremendous and rapid growth over the past 10 years whereas the growth of more established brands seems dwarfed parison. Our recent analysis of 2000 brands measured in the BrandZ™ global database over three years, between 2014 and 2017, found that fewer than one in 10 brands grew. Amazon is the archetypal disruptive brand. By making people’s lives simpler, less expensive and more convenient Amazon has grown its brand value by 2,228%, far outdistancing the BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, which grew by a creditable 152%. Sadly, Amazon is the exception not the rule. Most brands were stuck in categories where no brand achieved significant growth. In the same three years Amazon doubled its brand value. Even a 1% change in market share to an established brand can be very valuable. So how can a brand ensure it is one of the few that does grow? We cannot all work for an Amazon, flix or an Airbnb but even a 1% change in market share to an established brand can be very valuable. The rest of this report documents how conventional brands can learn from the disruptors and create opportunities for growth if they add a little disruption into their marketing mix. 2,228% BRAND GUIDANCE 44 33 RELATIVE BRAND STRENGTHS VS. EXPECTED MEANINGFUL DIFFERENT SALIENT -25 -5 15 35 55 DISRUPTORS BRANDS THAT GREW BRANDS THAT DECLINED DEAD & DYING GET OUT OF FORT ZONE If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table. JEFF BEZOS. FOUNDER, CEO OF AMAZON Most established brands operate in fort zone of business as usual. Existing practices and protocols encourage doing more of the same. Routine and inflexible budgeting limits creativity. And, dare we say, research data often supports staying in fort zone. This is not the fault of dat