<![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Reasons Why I Love Each of The Ten "Best" Brands:

1. Coke: High Fructose Corn Syrup slowly killing off your poorer customers (i.e. most of them)
2. Sony: Rootkit, obvs
3. Toyota... uh, I've got zero bad to say here. Doesn't build enough hybrids?
4. Dell: uh-mazing service
5. Ford: American car company. Nuff said.
6. Kraft Foods: do you produce anything without high fructose corn poison? doubt it.
7. Pepsi: see Coke
8. Microsoft: Vista's SP1 due in 2009! Maybe.
9. Apple: wait, I don't get laid by hot geeks because I bought stuff at the Genius Bar? Ubun-what?
10. Honda: again, besides the fact that they don't produce *strictly* hybrids... I got nothin.

Transuranic

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Anyone bother to look at Harris the company and their client list? Anyone? Hmmm... serving clients like MICROSOFT.

This list has come out year after year and SHOCK! it's always been laughed at by everyone except for the mid-level marketing managers at companies who are on the list so they can brag. And they are usually clients of Harris. And Interbrand does the same thing.

Anyone think this is statistically important?

Anyone?

zl9600

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @Recury: You don't like it, shut your computer off and go outside. What do you expect, opera?

doctor_cos

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Why the hell does this have 500+ diggs? BRAND POLL, OMGAWESOME. Way to go, internet.

Recury

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Are y'all just missing the point, or do you really not understand the concept of branding?

FreakyStyley

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @r81984: There would be just what I said before..."They didn't ask me so this poll is shit."
Chances are, when someone tried to ask you, you were too busy or thought it was a telemarketing scam.

doctor_cos

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> This cannot really be the best brands list.

Ford is terrible, GM is known more in the world than Ford.

Also, WTF is up with Coca Cola, Pepsi is by far the better brand.

Why is sony on the list, I think that last time anyone thought they were good was back in the early 90s, now everyone hates sony and most of their products, especially the vaio, are overpriced and made cheaper compared to other lower priced higher quality brands.

r81984

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @bnosach: ditto what CREATIVELINKS said. You can't argue with these results. Indeed, it appears your complaint is that BP, Nokia, etc. have not done as good a job of branding and marketing in the US as Kraft.

nequam

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @dbeahn: Brand Awareness does not necessarily make it the "best" brand. It is just those brands with the highest penetration.

If I asked people to name a color, and the majority said Red. Does that mean Red is the "best" color? No, it would simply be the most popular, or well-known color.

To find the best brands, the question should be posed "If you could have any car what would it be?"

Or, "if you could have any soft drink, what would you want?"

Those answers would then be the "best" brands, since they have the highest desire rates.

CreativeLinks

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @Secret Agent Man: Agreed and well said. This is a poll whose results can't really be challenged, since almost by definition the responses are correct. Most people think Coca-Cola is a top brand, ergo Coca-Cola has done a great job of branding.

@bnosach: According to the press release, 2,372 U.S. adults were surveyed in this poll. I do not believe it was meant to be international. Toyota and Honda likely made the list because these brands are well-known to U.S. adults.

@snowferret: The brands are not chosen for them. "Note: These are spontaneous replies. Respondents are not read or shown a list of brand names."

not_seth_brundle

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> If the brands are chosen for them what's the point?

snowferret

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> NEQUAM
There are a lot of well-known non-american brands, like BP, Nokia, etc. that (IMHO), should've been included in contrast to Kraft Foods.

bnosach

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @bnosach: Huh?

nequam

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @mathew: How did I miss that one!!

doctor_cos

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Really? Ask someone in foreign country if they know what Kraft Foods is and you'll quickly realize why Americans like to say "World League" when it comes to their sports. What kind of egocentrism is that? Yeh, the Champions of the world, when no other team hasn't been playing. Hilarious.

I mean, assuming that your post says "Ford was the only American car manufacturer on the list", the list is meant to be international, right?

Anyway, the fact that brand #6 was included just makes me angry :)

bnosach

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @Secret Agent Man: Um... Yes Bic pens are good and all, but Bic also makes the lighters all those smoke-monkies can't live without.

Thrust

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @dbeahn:

You've got it. It's not that complicated. It's a list of the companies with the best brand, that is, the company which has the best "branding". Who do you recognise, feel comfortable with and see as a company that you respect.

The firms on the list are succesful in their branding. Bic, the pen company, may have a pervasive product, but as a company, they tend to lie pretty low and would not be counted on this list.

Secret Agent Man

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Ford and Kraft Foods? They must have surveyed a lot of trailer parks.

mathew

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Oh my gosh - I think we already had this argument in a previous thread -- the one that dealt with the "best brands for 20-somethings"...or something along those lines.

I think that in this situation, the "best brand" has little to do with its products, but moreso with its popularity, recognition, and saturation throughout the marketplace.

So don't go getting your panties all in a bunch if you think the "best" brand makes crappy products. That has nothing to do with it, otherwise this would be the "Best Products" list and not "Best Brands"

Just my 2 cents...

pinkbunnyslippers

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Best - exceeding all others. Now can we have two hundred comments on how they "should have asked me" and "I think [redacted] should have been number one."
Polls are shit. The presidential election is one, and look what we ended up with last time :)

doctor_cos

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> #1 in my books, always has been.

banned

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Then Sony still fails the "best brand" as lately, in even the same day, Sony's US CEO and Japan CEO constantly contradict each other. In fact, this whole year Sony has been putting their foot in their collective mouths at every press conference regarding the PS3 and SOE games. Also, Sony got in trouble twice with viral marketing this year as well.

axiomatic

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Define "Best". Maytag is a better brand than Ford when it comes to backing up their product. LG is a better brand than Sony based on sales for comparable items. Hell, if it's best KNOWN, where in the nine hells is Bic?

Thrust

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> @CreativeLinks: That's what makes a great brand. They aren't commenting on the quality of the company or products, just the brand and marketing.

dbeahn

]]> <![CDATA[Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple]]> Shouldn't this be the "Most Well Known Brands" as opposed to the "Best Brands".

CreativeLinks

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