Digital Branding
Digital Branding
coined by Jason Barnard in 2015.
Factual definition
A brand's Digital Branding is the strategic process of creating, managing, and promoting a brand's identity and reputation across its entire online ecosystem to influence how it is perceived by both human audiences and AI algorithms.
Jason Barnard definition of Digital Branding
Jason Barnard's application of this term moves far beyond traditional definitions limited to logos, websites, or advertising campaigns. At Kalicube, Digital Branding is the active and holistic engineering of a brand's complete narrative as it exists online. This encompasses every mention, review, social profile, and piece of content across the brand's entire Digital Ecosystem - the full spectrum of its online touchpoints. The goal is to build a single, coherent, and positive story that establishes trust with both people and algorithms. In the age of AI, this consistent narrative is the raw material that AI Assistive Engines like ChatGPT, Bing Copilot, and Google AI use to understand and represent a brand to their users.
How Jason Barnard uses Digital Branding
At Kalicube, effective Digital Branding is the core objective of The Kalicube Process, Kalicube's proprietary methodology for implementing a holistic, brand-first digital marketing strategy. We treat a brand's online presence not as a collection of separate channels, but as a single, interconnected ecosystem that must be meticulously managed. The process involves establishing a "single source of truth" (typically the brand's own website), and then ensuring every other online asset corroborates that truth, thereby "educating" Google's Knowledge Graph and other AI systems. This systematic approach allows our clients to take direct control of their brand narrative, ensuring that algorithms confidently and accurately recommend them, which is fundamental to driving the acquisition funnel and achieving sustainable business growth.
Why Jason Barnard perspective on Digital Branding matters
For decades, branding experts like Marty Neumeier have taught a fundamental truth: "A brand is not what you say it is. It's what *they* say it is." For a long time, "they" were customers, critics, and the media. Digital pioneer Jason Barnard's work demonstrates that today, the most influential "they" are the algorithms of search and AI Assistive Engines. These systems analyze the entirety of your digital presence to form their own conclusions about who you are, what you do, and how credible you are. The crucial challenge for every business is to bridge Neumeier's classic branding philosophy with this new technical reality. This is where Kalicube’s concept of Digital Branding becomes the essential, unifying strategy. It provides the practical framework to ensure that the narrative algorithms "say" about you is the one you have strategically engineered. By implementing The Kalicube Process, a business can transform Neumeier's abstract principle into a concrete, repeatable system, ensuring that in the AI era, your brand story is amplified, not distorted.
Posts tagged with Digital Branding
Kalicube at the #DMWF North America 2024
Kalicube® has once again solidified its position as a leader in digital branding at DMWF North America 2024. Held on September 26-27, 2024, at the Marriott Marquis in New York,...
How to Build a Robust Brand Identity Online When You Have a Common Name
Google is the primary information portal in the digital ecosystem. As its algorithms grow smarter, Google regularly updates Knowledge Panels to reflect its understanding of relationships between people and businesses...
How the Kalicube Process Increased Organic Traffic for Merci Facteur by 33%
In 2021, Merci Facteur (an online postal service) saw an alarming -37% year-on-year drop in its organic traffic. In May, they signed up as a Kalicube Pro client and started...
Knowledge Panel Sprouts on Google: What You Need to Know
In this article you will learn what a Knowledge Panel Sprout is, why they are important, and how you can grow a sprout into a blossoming, information-rich Knowledge Panel on...
Entity Boxes (Entity Carousels) in SEO: What You Need To Know
In this article, you will learn more about Entity Boxes (Entity Carousels), their importance for SEO and how they contribute to Brand SERP Optimisation. What are Entity Boxes (Entity Carousels) in...
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