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Branding vs. Marketing — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Branding and Marketing

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Definitions

Branding

A trademark or distinctive name identifying a product, service, or organization.

Marketing

Marketing refers to activities a company undertakes to promote the buying or selling of a product, service, or good.It is one of the primary components of business management and commerce. Marketers can direct their product to other businesses (B2B marketing) or directly to consumers (B2C marketing).

Branding

A product or service so identified
Bought a popular brand of soap.

Marketing

The act or process of buying and selling in a market.

Branding

An association of positive qualities with a widely recognized name, as of a product line or celebrity
The company tried to improve its brand by donating money to charity.

Marketing

The strategic functions involved in identifying and appealing to particular groups of consumers, often including activities such as advertising, branding, pricing, and sales.
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Branding

A distinctive category; a particular kind
A brand of comedy that I do not care for.

Marketing

Present participle of market

Branding

A mark indicating identity or ownership, burned on the hide of an animal with a hot iron.

Marketing

Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair).

Branding

A mark burned into a person's flesh, as to identify a convicted criminal or a slave.

Marketing

Shopping, going to market as a buyer.
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Branding

A mark burned into a person's flesh for ornamental or aesthetic purposes.

Marketing

(dated) Attending market as a seller.
Marketing was a time-consuming task for truck farming families, as the round trip could take most of the day.

Branding

An association of disgrace or notoriety with something; a stigma.

Marketing

(uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising.
A bachelor's degree in marketing

Branding

A branding iron.

Marketing

The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.

Branding

A piece of burning or charred wood.

Marketing

Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.

Branding

(Archaic) A sword
“So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur” (Tennyson).

Marketing

The activities required by a producer to sell his products, including advertising, storing, taking orders, and distribution to vendors or individuals.

Branding

To mark with a hot iron, as to show ownership
Branded the steer.

Marketing

The exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money

Branding

To provide with or publicize using a brand name or other readily recognized identifier
A line of cars branded with mythological names.

Marketing

The commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service;
Most companies have a manager in charge of marketing

Branding

To consider or label as disgraceful or infamous; stigmatize
Branded the deserters as cowards.

Marketing

Shopping at a market;
Does the weekly marketing at the supermarket

Branding

To impress firmly; fix ineradicably
Imagery of the war has branded itself into the national consciousness.

Branding

The process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person or animal.

Branding

The promotion of a commercial brand of product in order to give it greater public awareness.

Branding

Present participle of brand

Branding

The act of stigmatizing

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