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¶čÊÓÆ”âs 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Brands can be in either a Unpublished or Published state. New Brands start as Unpublished.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Published brands can be edited (changes are immediately available), duplicated, or unpublished.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.
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)âuse them to inform your own brand guidelines.
Brand voice guidelines
The following table shows each category of brand voice guidelines and guideline examples.
Examples: âgenuineâ, âplayfulâ
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.
Examples: âauthenticityâ, âinspiringâ, âprogressiveâ
Be concise (3-6 guidelines) and focus on core brand values/themes.
Examples: âUse simple, accessible languageâ instead of âAvoid using jargonâ
Provide clear and actionable guidance.
Examples: âKeep sentences under 20 wordsâ instead of âBe conciseâ
Reflect your brandâs style, such as using specific syntax preferences.
Examples: âUse an em dash instead of a colonâ, âUse sentence caseâ
Craft precise guidelines that maintain consistency across outputs.
Example: âAvoid usingâŠâ
Provide clear and actionable guidance.
Example: âAvoid rhetorical questionsâ
Image guidelines
The following table shows each category of image guidelines and associated values. You must establish a category, such as âGeneral art guidelinesâ or âProduct photography,â in order to apply the image guidelines.
Example for General art guideline: âGuidelines that apply to images that are not photographs, such as illustrations, and 3D rendersâ
Examples: âEnsure product is the main focus with minimal distractionsâ, âVibrant colorsâ
Example: âPlace a ring light in front of the personâ
Example: âImages must always depict positive, joyous themesâ
Example: âAvoid shooting photos in cloudy environmentâ, âAvoid negative themesâ, âColors cannot be washed outâ
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.
Examples: âMaintain a friendly and approachable toneâ, âAvoid overly formal languageâ
Example: âAlign subject with email bodyâ
Example: âLimit to 60-80 charactersâ
Examples: âUse punchy statements to grab attentionâ
Examples: âUse punchy statements to grab attentionâ
Examples: âMaintain a friendly and approachable toneâ
Examples: âLimit to 80-100 charactersâ, âAvoid excessive acronymsâ
Examples: âFocus on the momentâ
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Examples: âDo not use end punctuationâ
Default channel guidelines
The following default channel guidelines for Brands are applied per channel, based on industry best practices and individual platform specifications.
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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 |
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Section | Default guideline |
Headline | Limit to 40 characters or less |
Body | Limit to 125 characters or less |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 companyâs 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.
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.