“Apple was named the most valuable global brand in market research firm Millward Brown’s tenth annual BrandZ brand value report [PDF], seeing a 67% rise in brand value to $246.9 billion,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors.
“The Cupertino-based company surpassed Google, which ranked first in the 2014 report, to reclaim the top ranking in the study for the fourth time in the past five years,” Rossignol reports. “Millward Brown explains that its brand valuation methodology is based on three million consumers and more than 100,000 different brands in over 50 markets, with brand appeal measured against actual sales performance.”
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MacDailyNews Take: After last year’s anomaly, you;d think Millward Brown would have improved their brand valuation methodology. There’s no way an rational person or measure would conclude that Google was a “more valuable” brand than Apple in 2014.
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