Y&R’s BrandAsset® Valuator (BAV) is our proprietary brand management tool and global database of consumer perceptions of brands. For the past 20 years, we have studied consumer responses to more than 50,000 brands from hundreds of categories in 51 countries around the world. And collected data from close to 1 million people.
When launched, the BAV model turned the prevailing theory of how brands are built upside down. We discovered a new set of metrics that enable our study to be uniquely predictive as well as diagnostic. Unlike most brand studies, BAV looks at brands beyond the confines of their categories so we are able to identify a brand’s role in culture.
BAV measures 4 key pillars of brand health and 48 brand imagery dimensions consistently across markets. That puts us in the unique position of being able to diagnose brand challenges and opportunities, as well as provide early warning signs to brand fatigue, for both global and local brands. Our data can be leveraged for the development of brand strategic frameworks for growth unlike any other.