The most successful brands in the world successfully stick in our memories.
Many such iconic brands achieve this status by embedding themselves in the lives of their audience.
Though they do so in different ways, all use a multitude of tools and distinctive brand assets to do this.
These include the logo, the experience, the messaging, the imagery and of course the slogan.
In this article, you’ll discover 133 of the most memorable slogan examples and a step-by-step process to create one for your brand or your client’s.
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What Is A Slogan?
So let’s define what a slogan is so we’re all singing the same tune.
A slogan is a memorable and catchy phrase which captures the overarching theme of a marketing campaign.
Now the last two words in that definition, marketing campaign, are critical.
You see, a slogan is designed to embed key ideas of marketing campaigns into the mind of the audience.
Often these marketing campaigns are promoting the brands core offer, products or services.
Slogans are born as a means to make the marketing message memorable and often focus on
Features
Advantages
Emotions
Unique Difference
Experience
Broader Ideas
Slogan vs Tagline
So how does a slogan differ from a tagline?
Well, while the slogan is a tool for marketing campaign memorability, the tagline is a tool for brand memorability.
Slogans tend to have a shorter lifespan while taglines tend to have a longer one.
There’s a lot of confusion around the difference between the two and understandably so because successful slogans, often outlive marketing campaigns and become adopted as the overarching brand tagline.
But these are two different tools used for different scenarios.
As a rule of thumb, slogans make marketing campaigns more memorable, taglines make brands more memorable.
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1 They’re Concise
Though there are some rare examples of successful extended slogans, for the most part, effective slogans are concise spanning only a few words.
The longer the slogan, the more difficult it is to remember and the more likely it will be remembered incorrectly or not at all.
2 They’re Catchy
Some of the most memorable slogans in the world are remembered because they’re catchy.
How catchy a slogan is relies on the phonetics of the phrase and how the words work together to produce a pleasing sound.
The more pleasing the sound and the easier it is to say, the more likely it will be repeated and more importantly remembered.
3. They’re Meaningful
A slogan can’t just be a handful of short and catchy words that mean nothing.
The job of the slogan is to be remembered but it needs to be remembered for something.
An equally important aspect of the job of the slogan is to embed meaning into the mind of the audience.
The result of this is when they do recall and they do remember, they can align a meaning to the memory helping to shape their perceptions.
How To Create A Tagline Or Slogan (Agency Process)
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133 Best Brand Slogan Examples
Now we’ve laid the groundwork for the slogan and its role in helping to build a brand, let’s take a look at some of the most memorable slogans from some of the most successful brands in the world
Accenture – Let There Be Change
Adidas – Impossible is Nothing
Adobe – Better by Adobe
Airbnb – Belong Anywhere
Allianz – We Cover Courage
Allstate – You’re in good hands
Amazon – Irresistible. Delivered.
American Express – Don’t leave home without it
Apple – Think Different
Audi – Advancement Through Technology
Avis – We try harder
AXA – Know You Can
BMW – The Ultimate Driving Machine
Bounty – The Quicker Picker Upper
Budweiser – King of Beers
Burger King – Have it your way
California Milk Board – Got Milk?
Canon – See Impossible
Capital One – What’s in your wallet?
Cartier – Never copy, always create
Caterpillar – Let’s Do The Work
Chick-fil-A – Eat Mor Chikin
Cisco – The Network That Works
Citi – Citi Never Sleeps
Coca-Cola – Open Happiness
Colgate – Cleans More Than Just Teeth
Corona – Log Off, Lime In
CoverGirl – Easy, breezy, beautiful…
Danone – Dare To Feel Good
De Beers – A Diamond Is Forever
Dell – Yours Is Here
Discovery – The World Is Ours
Disney World – Where Dreams Come True
Disneyland – The Happiest Place on Earth
Dollar Shave Club – Shave Time. Shave Money.
Dunkin’ – America Runs on Dunkin’
eBay – Buy it. Sell it. Love it.
Electronic Arts – Challenge everything
Energizer – Keep Going And Going
Facebook – It’s Quick & Easy
FedEx – The World On Time
Ford – Go Further
Gatorade – The Sports Fuel Company
General Electric – Imagination at Work
Gillette – The Best Men Can Get
Goldfish – The Snack That Smiles Back
Goldman Sachs – You Can Money
Hallmark – When you care enough to send the very best
Harley Davidson – All for Freedom. Freedom for All.
Heineken – Open Your World
Hennessy – Never Stop. Never Settle.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise – HP Invent
Honda – The Power Of Dreams
HP – Keep Reinventing
HSBC – Together We Thrive
Huawei – Dreams Inspire Creativity
Hyundai – Better Drives Us
IBM – Think
IKEA – The Wonderful Everyday
IMAX – Think Big
J.P. Morgan – Make More of What’s Yours
Jack Daniel’s – Make It Count
John Deere – Nothing runs like a Deere
Johnson & Johnson – For All You Love
Kay Jewelers – Every kiss begins with Kay
KFC – It’s Finger Lickin’ Good
Kia – Movement That Inspires
KitKat – Have a break. Have a KitKat.
L’Oréal – Because You’re Worth It
Land Rover – Above & Beyond
Las Vegas – What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas
Lay’s – Betcha can’t eat just one
Levi’s – Quality never goes out of style
M&Ms – Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
MasterCard – Priceless
Maxwell House – Good to the last drop.
Maybelline – Maybe it’s Maybelline.
Maxwell House – Good to the last drop.
Meow Mix – Cats Ask for It By Name
Mercedes-Benz – The Best or Nothing
Microsoft – Empowering Us All
MINI – Is It Love?
NESCAFÉ – It All Starts With a NESCAFÉ
Nespresso – What Else?
Nestlé – Good Food, Good Life
Netflix – See What’s Next
Nike – Just Do It
Nissan – Innovation That Excites
Oracle – Unbreakable
Pampers – Peaceful nights, Playful Days
Panasonic – A Better Life, a Better World
PayPal – Because You Have To
Pepsi – That’s What I Like
Philips – Sense And Simplicity
PlayStation – Play Has No Limits
Pokemon – Gotta catch ’em all!
Red Bull – Red Bull gives you wings
Rice Krispies – Snap! Crackle! Pop!
Ronseal – It Does Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
Salesforce.com – We Bring Companies and Customers Together
Samsung – Do What You Can’t
Shell – Together , Anything Is Possible
Siemens – Ingenuity for Life
Skittles – Taste the rainbow
Sony – Make.Believe
Spotify – Music For Every Mood
Sprite – Obey your thirst
State Farm – Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.
How To Create A Memorable Slogan
So now you have a healthy list of slogans for your inspiration, let’s take a look at the agency process for creating a memorable and effective slogan for your own brand or your client’s.
Step 1: Uncover Your Target Market
Before you write a slogan, you need to define exactly who it’s for.
Maybe you want to appeal to your entire market or maybe you want to run a differentiated marketing campaign to speak directly to a specific market segment.
Knowing exactly who you want to appeal to is a critical step to uncovering how to appeal to them
Step 2: Define Your Position
Who you’re targeting sets the tone for how you want that group of people to see your brand, your products, your services, your advantages, your difference, your experience or all the above.
Embedding your position in the mind of your audience is a long-term play though a slogan that drives that position home is a valuable one.
Step 3: Isolate Your Difference
The hallmark of an effective slogan is one that deposits a uniqueness wrapped in a concise and memorable phrase that’s easy on the ear.
The short and catchy nature of the slogan is the trojan horse though the uniqueness wrapped inside is where the real influence lies.
When you’re clear on your difference, you can add weight to your slogan.
Step 4: Create A Word Map
Armed with your audience, their desires, your position and unique difference, you have the seeds for an effective slogan though don’t expect something iconic to jump off the page… This takes work.
Use a mind map of word associations to find synonyms and associated words to expand your wordsmithing options.
There are no bad ideas here. This is a numbers game.
The more words you have to work with to craft a slogan, the more likely you are to create an iconic one.
Step 5: Distil Your Findings
You word map is all about expanding your linguistic possibilities to give you flexibility in your slogan development.
If that step is about quantity, this step is about quality.
Although there are no bad ideas when creating your word map, that doesn’t mean all should make the cut and that’s where quality control comes in.
Remove the words that aren’t fit for purpose so you’re left with highly relevant words to work with.
Step 6: Make It Meaningful
As you’re sifting through the quality words that have made the cut, you want to prioritise the weight of the words.
To put it another way, the first words for selection need to represent the message you want your audience to remember.
Is your product or service faster, better, more convenience a better experience, what’s the end result, the benefit to them and the difference to the rest?
Be highly selective with your choice to increase impact.
Step 7: Make It Concise
Although there are some examples of slogans that are both long and memorable, they’re few and far between.
As a rule of thumb, beyond five words, every additional word reduces the chance that your slogan will be remembered.
So as you sit down to write your slogan, think of your words as currency. You have five words to spend. Beyond five and you’re in debt.
Step 8: Make It Catchy
The first job of the slogan is to be remembered. If it’s too hard to remember then it doesn’t matter how much meaning or value is wrapped up inside, it will be quickly forgotten.
Only if it’s catchy and easy to remember does the weight of the difference and value have a chance to embed itself.
So use phonetically appealing words that dovetail with and compliment each others so it rolls off the tongue with minimal effort and maximum effect.
Over To You
Within a strategic brand, there are many tools used to grab the attention of the audience, deposit a meaning in their mind to ultimately influence first, their perceptions and then their decisions.
The slogan is one of the most effective ways to leave a lasting impression with your audience as to why they should remember your brand, your product, your service or your experience.
Take the time to define exactly what you want them to remember, then design a concise and catchy selection of words as your tool of delivery.
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