Find the key to your brand’s success using brandr Index
brandr Index is an all-in-one, comprehensive report covering the brand attributes that matter the most to your customers. It delivers data-driven insights you can start implementing right away to increase the effectiveness of your branding and marketing strategies in a constantly evolving market.
There is little pointing at 2023 to be a "walk in the park" for Norwegian businesses. If you haven't invested in insights the last year, a lot of your insights will be outdated. Covid, AI and digitalization has changed the customers mindset for years to come. The market is rapidly changing and the competition is getting tougher.

Why is it important to measure your brand's performance?
- Understand how your brand is performing compared to national and international competitors
- See if your marketing is efficient and find out what can be improved
- Increase ROI on your marketing
- Understand your customers and their expectations
- Set relevant strategic goals
- Improve employer branding and hire more focused and engaged employees
- See which elements of your branding have the strongest perception
- Detect if there is a gap between internal and external image
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What will you find inside the brandr Index report?
The brandr Index report was created to include the four pillars of measuring your brand's health. The report is a solid foundation for any brand to improve and grow through data-driven decision-making from customer feedback.

Differentiation
The report details how your brand stands out in the customers' minds and what are the key elements that make it different from the competitors. This will enable you to better position yourself on the market.
Segmentation
You will also receive information about which customer segments you're reaching and how well is your brand doing among those audiences. You can use this information to decide in which demographics to invest and if there's any new targets you might be missing.
Perception & Image
The report also contains information about your customers' experience with your brand and how they're perceive it. This way you can adjust your strategy and message to better suit your target audience.
Social Responsibility & Sustainability
The last element of the index measures the brand's strength regarding sustainability, environmental policies and social responsibility factors, which grow increasingly important in today's market.
Why do brands grow faster with us?
The brandr Index was founded by Dr. Fridrik Larsen, which is one of the world's leading branding specialists. The index is designed to make reporting on brand development informative, clear, visual and actionable. After 15 year of research, development and testing the brandr Index is available and used widely across markets in Europe.
React & adjust quicker
Companies using the brandr Index are able to keep an eye on all brand development within a single report and react quickly whenever the situation calls for it. This makes consistency across multiple platforms doable, even with new platforms popping up all the time, such as TikTok, Clubhouse, Discord and Twitch.
Monitor brand health
By using direct consumer feedback, our clients do not waste money on inefficient tools and creative concepts. They are able to systematically pre-test and post-test the health of their brand with direct feedback from the target group. The report contains various benchmarking features to enable our clients to quickly react to market changes.
Make data-driven decisions
The brandr Index uses competitive benchmarking to enable strategic and data-driven decision-making. Our clients can monitor the most important factors of their market positioning to drive growth and boost user satisfaction with accurate and reliable customer-centric data.
Improve communication
With accessible data that contains essential information presented in an easy-to-understand way managers have access to vital knowledge about the core strategy at their fingertips. This removes the disconnect between teams and departments and enables a great work culture with excellent communication.
Gain a competitive edge
Use a solution specifically designed to measure the over-all score of your brand with breakdown and benchmark to competitors, industry and geography. This will enable you to stay ahead of your competitors and gain a competitive advantage.


Make better, data-driven decisions
Establish meaningful connections with different audiences to improve trust and loyalty towards your brand. Understand how your brand is perceived and make better, data-driven decisions about your marketing and branding campaigns.
"The brandr index provides a practical way to gain unique insight into customers' minds and their relationship with brands."
– Magnus Haflidason | CEO Dominos Iceland

"The brandr index gave us a better understanding of how our customers relate to our brand. We have used the results to strengthen our marketing efforts and work systematically towards strengthening our brand. We look forward to measuring next year!"
– Oskar Thordarson | CEO Omnom Chocolate

"The brandr index is an informative and favorable measurement tool. We at 66° North use it to measure our positioning and assess the four factors which the index is based on; differentiation, segmentation, image & perception and sustainability & environment. The results from the report have been useful in our marketing strategy."
– Bjarney Hardardottir | CEO 66° North

"The brandr's reports have gives us very valuable information about our brands. Getting such well-implemented results about our brands from a wide range of customers is simply amazing and helps us in almost every aspect of the business. The whole process and communication with brandr was exemplary and very professional. We are excited to measure again next year."
– Sindri Jensson | Entrepreneur & Restauranteur

Our data expert Kristjan explains what the brandr Index measures
Why is it important to measure your brand?
- Get a global and national comparison
- See if marketing is efficient and find out how to improve your messaging
- Increase ROI on marketing expenditure
- Indicate whether customers are happy and why
- Set relevant strategic goals
- Obtain more focused and engaged employees
- See which areas of your image have the strongest perception
- Detect if there is a gap between internal and external image

How it works
- Free requirement consultation with branding expert
- Choose your target group
- Data collected through a survey
- Processing data from survey
- Presentation from a brandr Index consultant

FAQ
Why should i use brandr Index to audit my business?
- Get unique insights into how your customers perceive your brand.
- Get results simply and quickly, at a fraction of the cost of conventional market research.
- Invest in tracking the most valuable intangible asset you have: your brand.
- Get a benchmark for your brand against competing brands as branding is relative.
- Provide KPIs for the boardroom. Take the guess work out of marketing and enable strategic decisions.
Who can benefit from using brandr Index?
brandr Index is beneficial for most brands, including businesses and other organizations such as universities, NGOs, public services and sports organisations.
Any organization that needs to measure its brand’s positioning or ROI on marketing can benefit from using brandr Index. The index identifies scientifically valued constructs that matter to maximize ROI of marketing towards building a profitable brand.
Can i use brandr Index for benchmarking?
Yes, you can. A core component of brandr Index is to contextualize your data by providing reference points that are relevant to your brand, such as lowest, average and highest scores.
The brandr Index compares the key components of your brand (differentiation, segmentation, image and social responsibility) to your competitors and the market as a whole. Please keep in mind that the currently available benchmarking data varies based on industries and geographical markets. However, every client has options when selecting competitors to measure and to compare against.
How many survey respondents do we need?
The short answer is 300. The long answer is that it depends. You will need a representative sample from which to extrapolate information; the size of the sample will depend on your market, size, and other factors. A brandr research expert will guide you in the data collection process from design and recruitment to launch.
What does the brandr Index cost?
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What's the story behind the survey questions?
The brandr Index uses methods based on years of academic research, practical experience and field testing by Dr Larsen.
The research initially started with measuring hundreds of factors, which over the years boiled down to the most important questions we know work.
You have limited time to get reliable answers from survey respondents before they drop out or give inaccurate data. Therefore, the index measures the constructs that matter the most to consumers when it comes to the positioning of brands.
How does the brandr Index work?
Since brandr Index is a standardized method, it takes a short time to start the research and there is very limited role the client plays in the process. We aim to ask people that have experience with the brand. We deliver to you a draft email to send to the group you want to use as subjects.
In collaboration with a brandr research expert, you distribute the survey to your clients and/or stakeholders. The most common method of distribution is via email, using a newsletter subscribers list or a customers list. It is also possible to use social media, or you could use a panel
What do we do with the data results?
Once you have the survey results, you know the health of your brand. The next step would be to dig deeper into your brand to pinpoint the exact issues and make a diagnosis.
This will enable you to tweak your existing strategy or create a new one to strengthen your brand. We offer our clients further consultation and services to pinpoint exactly what needs to be done and help strengthen your brand. Contact your sales advisor for further information.
You can continue to return to your brandr Index to measure change year over year. We recommend that clients reissue brandr Index surveys annually to measure a brand’s progress.
Where is the data stored? Is it safe?
All data is stored on servers that are co-located in off-site data centres that undergo periodic SSAE 16 SOC audits and are constantly monitored for unauthorized access.
Comparisons
brandr Index vs NPS
The NPS (Net Promoter Score) is a single metric that was designed to predict the growth of businesses. Due to its simplicity, it has been used for a range of purposes, to measure loyalty towards brands, customer satisfaction, trust, or the performance of individual products. This simplicity is one of the main reasons it is used so much, not that it is the correct way to measure what it is used to measure. The Net Promotor Score does not reveal why you get the score you get from your customer.
brandr Index on the other hand is a multi-dimensional model that measures positioning and gives unique insights into HOW your brand is performing and WHY it is performing in that way. Brand equity and the predictive value of sales had never been measured, until brandr Index.
brandr Index vs Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Customer satisfaction surveys are a valuable tool for most businesses. They can be used for brands as a whole, specific business units, products or services. They are, however, limited to measuring satisfaction and its related attributes, rather than other important positioning factors such as a brand’s appeal, customers’ emotional investment with a brand or the brand’s perceived uniqueness.
brandr Index vs Brand Awareness
Brand awareness is the level of brand recall and recognition that consumers have of a particular brand and its specific product category. Brand awareness is a part of brand knowledge. Awareness studies such as Relevance, SoV and TOM can be both important and useful to measure. Insights from these differ from those you gain with brandr Index. Insights from the index give a deeper understanding of where strengths and weaknesses lie, their extent and to whom they are relevant.
brandr Index vs Brand Knowledge
Brand knowledge has two components: brand awareness and brand image.
Brand knowledge, or a consumer’s understanding a memory of a product, does not go as deeply as where your brand is positioned against competition and the return of ROI on your marketing budget. brandr Index can give you a more comprehensive overview of the constructs that matter most to consumers in a clear and visual way.