• Brand awareness is the ability of consumers to recognize the distinctive characteristics of one company compared to a competitor.

  • A company is perceived as having successful brand awareness where consumers can only recognize a company by visual or auditory cues without even hearing the company name.
  • The company’s marketing department comes up with signals that are then sold to customers.
  • Clues that can lead to brand recognition can take the form of names, trademarks, logos and jingles.