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GenStudio for Performance Marketing Brands

A brand distinguishes an organization, product, service or concept from others. Some aspects of a brand are objective, like a logo, while others are subjective, like tone of voice.

GenStudio for Performance Marketing uses the wealth of brand information from your Brand, partners it with Product and Persona information, and builds out a comprehensive brand identity. This brand identity is used to inform the creation of on-brand content using ĂÛ¶čÊÓƔ’s generative AI technology.

Manage Brands

After adding brand guidelines to GenStudio for Performance Marketing, you can manage and publish them. Publishing makes them available for your team to use in asset generation.

Brands can be in either a Unpublished or Published state. New Brands start as Unpublished.

You must publish a Brand to make it available for asset generation by your team.

Published brands can be edited (changes are immediately available), duplicated, or unpublished. Only published brands can be used to create and validate content. See Add guidelines.

Deleted Brands are archived for 30 days and can be recovered within that period.

Brands guidelines

Guidelines give GenStudio for Performance Marketing a clear picture of your brand-specific approach, tone, visual feeling, and more.

Some channel guidelines, abstracted from platform guidelines and ADA accessibility standards, are pre-populated as default values.

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The following guidelines sections detail each guidelines category, examples guidelines, and potential results. The guideline examples are sample inputs that shape the results output (result examples below)—use them to inform your own brand guidelines.

Brand voice guidelines

The following table shows each category of brand voice guidelines and guideline examples.

Guideline category
Description
Best practices
Tone of voice
Brand’s personality as expressed through written communication
Use descriptive words to clearly convey brand’s emotion and tone.
Examples: “genuine”, “playful”

Be concise (3-6 guidelines) and focus on key brand voice attributes.

Select words/phrases that are consistent across communication channels to build coherent brand identity.
Brand values
Principles that drive brand culture, customer experience, and business strategies
Use descriptive words to convey brand’s mission, vision, and audience needs.
Examples: “authenticity”, “inspiring”, “progressive”

Be concise (3-6 guidelines) and focus on core brand values/themes.
Editorial guidelines
Communication guidelines defining best practices for crafting brand messaging
Use positive phrasing (5-10 guidelines) to establish a strong foundation.
Examples: “Use simple, accessible language” instead of “Avoid using jargon”

Provide clear and actionable guidance.
Examples: “Keep sentences under 20 words” instead of “Be concise”

Reflect your brand’s style, such as using specific syntax preferences.
Examples: “Use an em dash instead of a colon”, “Use sentence case”

Craft precise guidelines that maintain consistency across outputs.
Editorial restrictions
Communication guidelines defining what to avoid in brand messaging
Use direct negative phrasing (5-10 guidelines) to specify what should be avoided.
Example: “Avoid using
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Provide clear and actionable guidance.
Example: “Avoid rhetorical questions”

Image guidelines

The following table shows each category of image guidelines and associated values. You must establish a category, such as ‘General art guidelines’ or ‘Product photography,’ in order to apply the image guidelines.

Guideline category
Description
Values
Description
General information for the specific category of image guideline added, such as “Product photography” or “General art guidelines”
Extracted from guidelines documents and manually configurable

Example for General art guideline: “Guidelines that apply to images that are not photographs, such as illustrations, and 3D renders”
Content type
Available content types for an image
Art or Photo
Composition
Details regarding the placement of objects, camera, and photography techniques
Extracted from guidelines documents and manually configurable
Environment
Details regarding the environment, such as background elements in the image
Example: “Prefer to use a sunny environment”
Color
Details regarding color family, color temperature, primary/secondary/tertiary colors, hue, saturation, contrast
Extracted from guidelines documents and manually configurable

Examples: “Ensure product is the main focus with minimal distractions”, “Vibrant colors”
Lighting
General or specific details regarding the lighting
Extracted from guidelines documents and manually configurable

Example: “Place a ring light in front of the person”
Mood
Describes the feeling of an image
Extracted from guidelines documents and manually configurable

Example: “Images must always depict positive, joyous themes”
Restrictions
Things to avoid regardless of other guidelines
Extracted from guidelines documents and manually configurable

Example: “Avoid shooting photos in cloudy environment”, “Avoid negative themes”, “Colors cannot be washed out”

Channel guidelines

Each channel has certain inherent guidelines that influence channel asset composition.

The following table shows each channel section, channels for which it is available, description of the section, guideline examples, and example results.

Sections
Channels
Description
Best practices
General
email, Meta, display ads
A second subject line or email preview text
Define overall tone/emotion to be consistent throughout email (2-5 guidelines).
Examples: “Maintain a friendly and approachable tone”, “Avoid overly formal language”
Subject
email
A compelling and interesting title to summarize the content of an email
Provide specific guidance (2-5 guidelines) on tone, length, etc. Add previously successful subject lines in Examples section for better quality output.
Example: “Align subject with email body”
Preheader
email
A second subject line or email preview text
Provide specific guidance (2-5 guidelines) on tone, ideal length, etc. Add previously successful preheaders in the Examples section for better quality output.
Example: “Limit to 60-80 characters”
Headline
email, Meta, display ads, LinkedIn
A title or phrase to grab the reader’s attention
Provide specific guidance (2-5 guidelines) on tone, ideal length, etc. Add previously successful headlines in Examples section for better quality output.
Examples: “Use punchy statements to grab attention”
Sub-headline
email, Display ads
A second or third title or phrase to grab reader’s attention
Provide specific guidance (2-5 guidelines) that define tone, ideal length, etc. Add previously successful sub-headlines in Examples section for better quality output.
Examples: “Use punchy statements to grab attention”
Description
LinkedIn
Descriptive phrases that define overall tone-emotion
Provide specific guidance (2-5 guidelines) on tone, ideal length, etc. Add previously successful descriptions in Examples section for better quality output.
Examples: “Maintain a friendly and approachable tone”
Body
email, Meta, display ads, LinkedIn
Marketing content that includes message, links, and images
Provide specific guidance (2-5 guidelines) on tone, ideal length, etc. Add previously successful copy to Examples section for better quality output.
Examples: “Limit to 80-100 characters”, “Avoid excessive acronyms”
On-image text
Meta, LinkedIn
Specific guidance on the tone, ideal length, etc. fo text that appears on top of images
Provide specific guidance (1-2 sentences) on tone, ideal length, etc. Add previously successful text to Examples section for better quality output.
Examples: “Focus on the moment”
Call-to-action (CTA)
email, Meta, display ads
(Call to Action) An instruction given to the reader that inspires a response. Usually one or two words, such as Get started
Provide specific guidance (2-5 guidelines) on tone, ideal length, etc. Add previously successful CTAs to Examples section for better quality output.
Examples: “Do not use end punctuation”

Default channel guidelines

The following default channel guidelines for Brands are applied per channel, based on industry best practices and individual platform specifications.

Email
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Section Default guideline
Subject Limit to 2 lines or less
Preheader Limit to 2 lines or less
Headline Limit to 8 words or less
Body Limit to 3-4 lines
CTA Limit to 2 words or less
Paid social
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Section Default guideline
Headline Limit to 40 characters or less
Body Limit to 125 characters or less
Display ads
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Section Default guideline
Headline Limit to 6 words or less
Body Limit to 6 words or less
CTA Limit to 2 words or less
Meta
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Section Default guideline
Headline Limit to 40 characters or less
Body Limit to 125 characters or less
On-image text Limit to 5-6 words
LinkedIn
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Section Default guideline
Headline Limit to 70 characters or less to avoid truncation
Headline Limit to 200 characters
Description Limit to 100 characters to avoid truncation
Description Limit to 300 characters
Introductory text Limit to 150 characters to avoid truncation
Introductory text Limit to 600 characters
Introductory text Maximum of four emojis
Ad name Limit to 255 characters or less

Logos

Brand logos serve as visual symbols representing a company’s identity, values, and products. You can upload one or multiple logos (not to exceed 1GB per file) for a Brand in JPG, JPEG, SVG, or PNG formats. Logos can be added during Brand creation or from the individual Brands view.

Each uploaded logo includes the following details within the logo tile:

  • File type
  • File size
  • Resolution

From the actions menu (three dots) for a color, you can Download, Rename, or Delete a color.

Colors

Manage colors within individual Brands to ensure consistent and accessible text styling. Choose or define colors by a hex code or RGB code, and only solid colors are supported (opacity is not supported). You can add unlimited colors, view them in a gallery format, and rename them from hex or RGB code to a human-readable name.

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From the actions menu (three dots) for a color, you can Edit, Rename, or Delete a color.

Brand validation

In GenStudio for Performance Marketing, brand validation plays a crucial role, in conjunction with the generative AI functionality of Brands, Products, and Personas. It ensures that all your content remains consistent with your brand identity and accessibility concerns.

See Brand validation.

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