Last week we reported about BrandingKorea publishing an interesting interview with Xiaoyan Zhao, a representative of the Nation Brands Index. Now it’s turn for Victoria Berry, a representative from FutureBrand’s Country Brand Index, to be interview by Clement Brossard and David Robert. Here are some of the interview’s highlights: About the Country Brand Index’s nature:…
The BrandingKorea.org website, which is an independent publication that monitors and discusses the strategies, activities and challenges related to the promotion of the Korean destination, has published a worth-reading interview with Xiaoyan Zhao, Senior Vice President and Director of the Nation Brand Index study at GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media. In the interview, Mr….
We’ve looked at Switzerland’s standings on the Nation Brands Index before (look at the Switzerland at the 2009 Nation Brands Index post for an example). Now it’s time for GenevaLunch, a Swiss blog, to report about the country’s rankings in the 2010 edition of the Nation Brands Index, which evaluates the strength and attractiveness of…
In mid October we reported about the release of the 2010 Nation Brands Index. Information about the survey results was scarcer than in previous editions, yet substantial details were known across a number of print and online media news. The Nation Brands Index is certainly not a survey for public consumption, but a tool for…
A new edition of the popular Nation Brands Index has just been released today. According to the Nation Brands Index 2010’s earliest known details, the United States continues to have the world’s most valuable country brand, a place it obtained in in 2009 after Obama’s election. There are minor changes in this year’s edition of…
Switzerland is widely admired for its system of government, but is not perceived as having offered much to the world in terms of culture.? These were two of the findings of last year’s edition of the Nation Brands Index, which put Switzerland in eighth position overall – three places lower than in the same study…
Last Wednesday October 7, 2009, we informed about the Nation Brands Index 2009. The clear news was the stunning rise of the US nation brand and Barack Obama’s effect on Brand America. As we focused mainly on this unprecedented phenomenon, we left aside a more indepth analysis of this year’s Index as a whole, and…
The long-awaited Nation Brands Index 2009, one of the cornerstones of nation branding and one of the most relevant tools to measure the nature and power of a nation brand, has just been released. The index, which surveys people from across 20 major developed and developing countries about their image of 50 countries, has revealed…
Last week we reported that Korea’s nation branding council president Euh Yoon-dae annouced that Korea won’t evaluate the success of its nation branding program against the Nation Brands Index (as it had been previously indicated), but against another index, whose design and creation has been charged to a fellow Korean foundation, the Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI)….
After nearly one “short” month of summer vacations, here we come again – with an update on Korea’s nation branding project. As all readers should be well aware of, the Korean government has embarked on a gross nation branding project leaded by Euh Yoon-dae to raise Korea’s nation brand value. The JoongAng Daily published some weeks ago…
As you may know, Lithuania has in recent years pressed some keys to improve its image in the world. The country even considered changing its Lithuania name to something more catchy, and it has also participated ina multi-national branding plan for the entire Baltic Sea region. More recently, corporate identity and branding über-guru Wally Olins…
The Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index (NBI) is an important benchmark for measuring a country’s brand image and for future management of that image. How the world perceives a country has a dramatic impact on business, tourism and diplomatic influence. Lisa Merriam interviews Laura Latshaw, Senior Vice President, GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media on how the Index was calculated,…
