[Brand Identity & Creativity]
Identity is what remains when you turn off the advertising.
We plan and build brand identities that are recognizable, consistent, and capable of translating values, positioning, and promise into a visual, verbal, and creative system that works on every brand touchpoint. We work on emerging brands that are being born, established brands that are evolving, and players in the repositioning phase — with methodologies built on brand strategy, design system, art direction, and creative production at an advertising level. One goal only: to transform the brand from a name and logo into a living, recognizable, and scalable system that builds perceived value and competitive differentiation over time, well beyond a single campaign.
Main Objectives
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BRAND STRATEGY AND POSITIONING OBJECTIVES
- Define brand positioning with competitive analysis, perception mapping, and identification of strategic white space
- Build brand purpose, values, promise, and personality consistent with business identity and target expectations
- Develop a structured brand story that translates strategy into a narrative usable in communication and sales
- Align brand identity with commercial strategy, product, and internal corporate culture for end-to-end consistency
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VISUAL IDENTITY AND DESIGN SYSTEM OBJECTIVES
- Design logo, brand system, and scalable visual architecture across brand portfolio and multiple product lines
- Build a complete design system with color palette, typography, iconography, patterns, and application guidelines
- Define photographic, illustrative, and video treatment consistent with brand identity for future asset production
- Document structured brand book as an operational reference for internal teams, suppliers, and collaborating agencies
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VERBAL IDENTITY OBJECTIVES AND TONE OF VOICE
- Build an articulated tone of voice with guiding principles, brand vocabulary, examples of copy do’s and don’ts
- Define the brand’s verbal architecture with tagline, payoff, product line naming, and internal nomenclatures
- Develop copy guidelines applicable to internal copywriters, freelancers, and external partner agencies
- Ensure brand voice consistency on website, social media, email, advertising, and corporate communication
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CREATIVE DIRECTION CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES
- Develop creative concepts for integrated advertising campaigns on paid, social, video, and offline materials
- Ensure cross-channel creative consistency while maintaining specific adaptations for format and platform logic
- Build campaigns with longevity potential — not just a single execution but a system replicable over time
- Align creativity with measurable business objectives — not creativity for its own sake but functional to defined KPIs
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CREATIVE PRODUCTION OBJECTIVES
- Coordinate photographic production with art direction, location selection, talent casting, and consistent post-production
- Manage video production with concept, script, artistic direction, and advertising-level post-production
- Build a library of reusable creative assets across multiple touchpoints to maximize production ROI
- Select specialized suppliers for each type of production while maintaining centralized creative consistency
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BRAND APPLICATION AND TOUCHPOINT OBJECTIVES
- Consistently apply brand identity on website, social media, packaging, retail, events, and corporate materials
- Create templates and asset libraries accessible to internal teams for autonomous production consistent with the brand
- Define brand governance processes with hierarchical approvals, asset custody, and brand management
- Monitor consistent application over time with periodic audits on external touchpoints and review of improper uses
How do we work?
19ADV’s operational framework
in Performance Marketing
01
Briefing and definition of requirements
We analyze the business model, target audience, and reference markets — B2C, B2B, and D2C — and define concrete objectives and measurable KPIs: listens, visits, leads, awareness, and cost per acquisition.
02
Free diagnostic audit
If you are already investing in Spotify Ads, we analyze your account to identify issues and opportunities in campaign structure, segmentation, audiences, and audio and video creatives.
03
Strategy definition
We build the campaign strategy starting from the objectives not from the available formats and we define the targeting budget, mix of formats and integration with the other active channels
04
Production and setup
Gestiamo o coordiniamo la produzione degli asset creativi script audio voiceover e video e configuriamo le campagne su Spotify Ad Studio con tracciamento preciso degli obiettivi
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Ottimizzazione continua
We monitor performance and constantly optimize exposure frequency, targeting and creativity. No campaign is left running unsupervised.
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Reporting and analysis
Periodic reports with the metrics that really matter: real coverage, ad completion frequency, traffic generated and cost per result, no vanity metrics, just useful data
Brand Identity & Creativity Campaigns
Methodological approach
- Initial brand discovery workshop with C-level to understand business, ambitions, real values, and company culture
- Competitive analysis on positioning, visual identity, and creativity of industry players to identify differentiation
- Iterative development of the brand system with collaborative review and qualitative validation on key stakeholders
- Brand book as the final deliverable, accompanied by operational implementation and internal team training
Brand Identity & Creativity Services Available
- Brand strategy with positioning, brand purpose, brand story, and structured brand architecture
- Complete visual identity with logo, design system, brand book, and application on key brand touchpoints
- Creative direction for advertising campaigns with concept, production, and consistent cross-channel adaptations
- Naming, claim, and verbal identity with tone of voice, copy guidelines, and nominal architecture of brand portfolio
Integrated technology stack
- Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere) for complete creative production
- Figma for design system, UI prototyping, and real-time collaboration between creative teams and development
- Brand asset management (Brandfolder, Frontify, Bynder) for asset storage and brand application governance
- Collaborative tools (Miro, FigJam) for brand strategy workshops, conceptual maps, and structured visual thinking
Frequently Asked Questions about Brand Identity & Creativity
Conta più di quanto la maggior parte delle PMI italiane immagini. La brand identity riduce CAC nel medio termine, aumenta CTR organico delle campagne paid, migliora considerazione lungo il funnel B2B e costruisce pricing power che permette di non competere solo sul prezzo. Performance marketing senza brand è efficace nel breve ma fragile e sempre più costoso nel tempo. Brand senza performance è invisibile. Il valore reale sta nell’integrazione: brand costruisce demand, performance la cattura.
Ha senso fare rebranding quando l’identità attuale non rappresenta più chi sei (post-acquisizione, riposizionamento strategico, evoluzione del business), quando i competitor sono cambiati e tu sembri obsoleto in confronto, o quando il target di riferimento si è evoluto e l’identità non parla più la sua lingua. È costo evitabile quando viene fatto per moda, su impulso di un nuovo CMO che vuole “lasciare il segno”, o senza un razionale strategico solido. Rebranding richiesto da capricci interni produce confusione, costi e quasi mai valore misurabile.
Variable based on complexity and scope. Brand identity for SMEs with a limited scope (logo, basic design system, essential brand book): typically 15-40k€. Complete brand identity for structured organizations with brand architecture, brand portfolio, complex applications: 50-200k€. Rebrand of enterprise groups with multiple business units: 200-500k€ and beyond. Before the assignment, we define the scope, deliverables, and investment based on the real business objectives, not on standard price lists.
Brand identity complete with strategy, visual identity, verbal identity, and brand book typically requires 3-6 months. Essential brand identity for SMEs with limited scope: 6-10 weeks. Complex rebranding of structured organizations with multiple stakeholders and intricate internal validations: 6-12 months. Timelines mainly depend on the client’s internal decision-making complexity — a brand can technically be built in 8 weeks but may require months of internal alignment for hierarchical validations.
Strategic before visual. Free templates and tools produce aesthetically acceptable outputs but disconnected from strategy, positioning, and differentiation. A professional brand identity starts from business strategy, competitive analysis, target understanding and translates strategy into a visual and verbal system consistent with real objectives. The difference is not the elegance of the logo, it is the ability of the brand system to build measurable perceived value over time and to scale on touchpoints that do not yet exist.
Con specific long-term metrics. Brand search volume on Google, brand mention on social media and media, consideration lift in pre/post brand campaign studies, CAC reduction in the same channels compared to pre-rebrand, increase in pricing power measured as margin without loss of volume, NPS and loyalty metrics. Brand ROI is not immediate and rarely measurable in a single quarter; it manifests over 12-36 month horizons as a structural improvement in overall acquisition and retention metrics.