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Every single interaction between your brand and your customers has the potential to make them like your brand more or less, whether it’s the language used by your agents, how long they take to respond, or even how difficult it is to find self-service help on your website.
Your brand experience is impacted (positively or negatively) by many conversations on many channels at many moments you may not even realize are important. Software can give you both the scale and visibility to start to do something about it. The right tools help you to see what customers are really saying, how they’re really feeling and what’s impacting their perception of your brand in real time.
In this guide, we’ll cover what brand experience tools do, how they differ from customer experience tools, the different types of brand experience tools worth investigating, and how CallMiner and similar platforms can help you leverage conversation intelligence to close the gap between your brand promise and brand experience.
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Brand experience tools assist companies in perceiving, designing, and improving brand touchpoints from a customer’s point of view. With these tools, your company can collect insights from customer conversations, social media interactions, survey feedback, and more, and then transform that data into actionable intelligence.
Some focus on customer journey mapping. Others enable real-time sentiment analysis or provide brand performance insights across channels, including web, social, and contact centers. The idea is to identify friction points and overall perception, as well as moments when the experience breaks down or exceeds expectations.
When implemented correctly, brand experience tools provide product, support, and sales teams with visibility into the complete brand experience. This enables the company to deliver a consistent and unified experience across the enterprise.
Customer experience (CX) tools assess the customer journey from the perspective of whether and how well your company meets expectations, evaluating factors such as response times and rates, problem resolution, ease of use, simplicity, and overall satisfaction. Customer experience tools track the performance of specific touchpoints, workflows, and processes to ensure customers are getting what they came for without friction.
Brand experience tools take a broader view, helping you understand how each experience and interaction (before, during, and after the purchase of a product or service) affects a person’s perception of your brand. This includes tone of voice, emotional resonance, visual design, and how it either aligns with or fails to align with the promises you make as a brand.
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The two work hand in hand. Strong customer experience builds trust, while strong brand experience builds loyalty. Tools that capture both give you a fuller picture of how your business is actually being experienced, both in real time and in lasting memory.
Brand experience tools can be categorized into several key areas, depending on your objectives and brand experience initiatives.
Brand management platforms centralize brand guidelines, creative assets, messaging frameworks, and approved content so teams across departments and regions can deliver a consistent brand experience. These tools are particularly important for distributed organizations that need to scale branding without sacrificing cohesion. They ensure that every piece of collateral (e.g., an ad, customer email, or sales deck) feels on-brand and aligned with customer expectations.
Customer feedback tools primarily focus on capturing and centralizing voice of the customer (VoC) from surveys, reviews, and other types of customer feedback into one centralized location. Customer feedback tools are a valuable starting point for tracking customer satisfaction, recurring issues, or common complaints that a company can prioritize and address with actual customer responses.
Conversation intelligence platforms capture and analyze customer interactions at scale, across various channels, including phone calls, chats, emails, SMS, and more. Tools such as CallMiner use AI to surface human emotion, intent, and sentiment, and not just simple keywords, for a better understanding of how your customers and agents really feel about their experience.
Customer journey mapping and CX orchestration tools are customer experience platforms that provide a visual representation of a customer journey with a brand, starting with first contact all the way through to ongoing or long-term engagement. Customer journey maps allow brands to pinpoint where drop-offs in customer engagement occur in the customer lifecycle, which channels consumers use to move through the lifecycle, as well as “moments that matter” that have the biggest impact on CX.
Brand sentiment and social listening tools are utilized to monitor brand mentions and brand-related discussions on social media, forums, and review websites, among other platforms. These tools monitor the overall social perception of a brand and can inform companies of major changes in brand sentiment so that they can act quickly in response to any negative perceptions.
Digital asset management (DAM) tools store, organize, and distribute digital assets, such as logos, images, videos, and documents. They play a critical support role in brand experience by ensuring the right visuals and media are used consistently across marketing, support, product, and sales. When teams use the wrong version of a logo or a low-quality video in customer-facing content, it damages the experience. DAM tools help prevent that.
Experience analytics and session replay platforms provide users with the ability to watch sessions and capture user interactions with websites or apps, allowing them to monitor user navigation throughout the site to identify where engagement is losing steam, where drop-offs occur, and where confusion begins.
Each of these tools tackles a different angle, but together they give you a full picture of how your brand is experienced and where you can improve it.
1. Leverage brand experience analytics. “Brand experience analytics solutions like CallMiner monitor 100% of customer interactions across every channel, providing valuable insight into brand sentiment and brand perception. The CallMiner platform captures both structured and unstructured information from every conversation, whether it takes place over email, phone, SMS, social media, chat, web surveys, and more, including not only the words customers use but also the emotions behind them.
“Brand experience analytics solutions go beyond the survey — which provides a snapshot in time —providing visibility into how brand sentiment changes from moment to moment.
“Thanks to real-time visibility, you can readily identify drivers of brand sentiment. For example, you’ll have insight into your customers’ behaviors and interactions that occur prior to an increase in brand sentiment to inform your marketing decisions. Conversely, you can discover what interactions customers have immediately before a drop in brand sentiment and take action to turn those interactions into positive experiences.”
- Everything you need to know about brand experience, CallMiner; X: @CallMiner
2. Use brand management software to manage brand assets and keep teams aligned. “Effective brand management software documents brand guidelines and facilitates collaboration on creative campaigns, maintaining a consistent brand image and ensuring all team members are aligned with the brand management system.
“Additionally, these tools streamline the brand management process and enhance overall efficiency by supporting the management of brand assets.”
- 10 Essential Tools for Brand Managers to Boost Efficiency, Slate; X: @slateteams
3. Centralize asset management to ensure consistency. “Brand management software ensures consistency across all channels, growing brand recognition and trust while increasing revenue by up to 10-20%.
“The software centralizes and standardizes brand assets, ensuring all teams and stakeholders have access to up-to-date brand guidelines and materials.”
- Courtney Bozigian, 10 Best Brand Management Tools To Boost Value & Efficiency, Digital Silk; X: @DigitalSilkCo
4. Get real-time insights for agile branding. “Brand research is a long process. But AI is making it real time.
“Offering immediate visibility into shifting customer preferences, competitor activity, and market dynamics, this has quickly become crucial for brands operating in fast-paced industries. This allows for immediate course correction if needed.
“Let’s take a product rebranding as an example. Once the new brand has launched, a business can use AI to monitor real-time customer sentiment across social channels from minute one — and make immediate adjustments if needed.”
- Will Webster, AI branding: Transform research and strategy with AI, Qualtrics XM; X: @Qualtrics
5. Personalization is crucial for enhancing brand experience. “Personalization is one of the most powerful tools for enhancing a branded customer experience. Customers’ expectations are high for personalized communication across all channels, and they’ll quickly abandon interactions that don’t offer the experience and personalization they feel they deserve.
Despite this fact, nearly two thirds of digital marketing leaders report that they continually struggle with personalization efforts. Conversation intelligence technology can help by delivering the capabilities to capture and analyze conversations across all channels, even when those channels aren’t connected or integrated.
“By using conversation intelligence to understand the brand experience at every touchpoint, you can:
- Create more personal connections with your brand, CallMiner; X: @CallMiner
6. Use AI tools to enhance audience alignment. “AI is already enabling brands to achieve far better audience alignment — understanding not only who their customers are but also what they value and how they engage with content.
“Looking ahead, AI will refine this process further by using predictive analytics to anticipate changes in audience needs. For instance, brands could identify how shifting cultural trends or economic conditions impact audience preferences and adjust their strategies accordingly. As we’ve already seen, this might involve creating campaigns that align with environmental values for one group, while focusing on affordability for another.
“Audience alignment is crucial because it allows brands to deliver more impactful, relevant campaigns.
“By building precise alignment with their various micro-segments, the brands using AI have a huge opportunity to improve ROI, strengthen brand loyalty, and stay responsive to evolving consumer expectations.”
- Will Webster, AI branding: Transform research and strategy with AI, Qualtrics XM; X: @Qualtrics
7. Understand your communities with deeper insights. “Brands need to truly understand their priority communities by gathering insights on, for example, why their members participate in them, how they feel about the brand’s products, what their unmet needs are, how they like to be spoken to, and what drives them to purchase and where. One global haircare brand carried out an analysis of its user communities to find a new niche of users who were proactive about preventing animal cruelty, allowing the company to include cruelty-free messaging and content for those users.
Similarly, a global security systems company found two important customer communities: a group of high net-worth art buyers seeking protection for their prestigious art collection and a completely different group of pet lovers, who routinely checked their security systems to see their furry friends while away. Communicating to these groups individually helped the brand’s value resonate with different users.
“Achieving this understanding requires a strong consumer-insights function with a cultural-anthropology orientation. A good understanding of the community will help the brand communicate well and generate an emotional response, which is ultimately what triggers a long-lasting relationship between the brand and the consumer; as positive emotions become deeply rooted, consumers develop permanent favorable associations with the brand.”
- Kabir Ahuja, Fiona Hampshire, Annabel Morgan, Jessica Moulton, and Alex Harper, A better way to build a brand: The community flywheel, McKinsey & Company; X: @McKinsey
8. Use personalization to shift the focus from the brand to the consumer. “Technology does a great job of expanding our palette to tell stories, but at the end of the day, this business is still about connecting with people. To help us inspire those stronger connections, personalization is key. Or rather, hyper-personalization.
“Personalization has already become the expectation. Hyper-personalization pairs predictive technology with data to provide a much deeper understanding of your audience. The end result is that your guests barely have to do any work, because you’ve designed the experience to come to them.
“It all starts before the show, with guests creating a digital profile. From there, beacon-enabled technology can pair with a mobile app to alert audiences to relevant sessions, lectures, or booths that match their interests. You can even manipulate digital signage using location-based tech to alert passersby of information that is of interest to them. Even the future of show booths is showing flashes of brilliance.
“The next logical steps are combining voice and face recognition software, virtual wallets, smart holograms, and 3D printers to provide a level of personalization never seen before. Someday soon, a guest will literally be able to wander around and design their own brand experience on the go.”
- Why Brand Experience Is the Future of Marketing, Freeman
9. Create interactive experiences. “Interactive brands tend to stick. Beyond merely observing, allowing customers to engage amplifies the chances of a favorable brand experience.
“Whether contributing ideas online, joining live Q&A sessions, or having hands-on experiences like sampling your product – participation breeds connection.
“Duolingo, a language learning app, actively encourages users to participate by setting daily goals, streaks, and interactive lessons. Users can also join clubs and compete, adding a social dimension to learning.
“IKEA offers a unique shopping experience with its maze-like store setup. Customers can touch, test, and visualize products in real-life settings. Additionally, children can participate in play areas while adults build the purchased furniture, deepening the brand interaction.”
- Ross Kimbarovsky, Brand Experience: How To Stand Out and Supercharge Your Business Growth, Crowdspring; X: @crowdspring
10. Build emotional connections. “Emotions drive purchasing decisions and brand loyalty. Brands that evoke positive emotions are more likely to be remembered and recommended. According to a study by Harvard Business Review, emotionally connected customers are more than twice as valuable as highly satisfied customers.”
- Shaikh Asif, The Ultimate Guide to Elevating Brand Experience: Proven Strategies, Trends, and Best Practices for Startups and Entrepreneurs in 2024, Alitestar
11. Implement progressive profiling. “Progressive profiling is a great way to collect consumer data without demanding too much at once. This caveat is especially important considering that 29% of users reported leaving a brand in the past 12 months because it demanded too much information. It allows brands to build detailed customer profiles organically, enhancing personalization, improving customer experience, increasing engagement, boosting data quality, and strengthening customer relationships.
“However, brands must remember that although they’re not collecting an overwhelming amount of data all at once, they are still collecting data. Just because consumers are more willing to accept this kind of data collection, that doesn’t give brands the right to disregard data privacy considerations like minimization and security.”
- Ammar Faheem, Six Tech Trends Shaping the Future of Brand Experiences, Thales; X: @ThalesCloudSec
12. Develop a cohesive brand ecosystem. “Linear thinking is one of the key obstacles to achieving an impactful digital experience. Most people think about how they can maximize native digital marketing channels, but a better approach is to consider it as an integrated element from the outset, using interactivity to connect people to the brand. We recently created a gamified environment for a client, combining basketball hoops with interactive digital content, resulting in a brand ecosystem where consumers were able to play with virtual characters using a real ball and hoop, connecting and unlocking physical and digital channels simultaneously while feeding shared social moments.”
- Alex Vera, How to integrate digital innovation into your brand experience, Quirk’s Media; X: @QuirksMR
13. Amplify live experiences. “Trade shows and conferences are chock-full of brands jockeying for attendees’ attention, and creating a memorable experience among the craziness can be a challenge. However, leveraging immersive technology can help ensure people remember their engagement with your brand.
“Sneaker-lovers will go to great lengths to snatch up the latest specialty pair, and limited-edition Adidas products sell out online fast. And releasing a limited-run product at a massive convention could lead to a stampede.
“To prevent mayhem and engage sneakerheads in a fun new way, Adidas let ComplexCon attendees buy highly sought-after products on the spot, via an AR-powered app developed specifically for the event.
“Users used their smartphone cameras to activate pick-up spot signs and then followed instructions to choose their pair. Afterward, they’d find their way to a designated locker to pick up their new pair. Not only was the process fast and easy, but it also created a buzz and captivated the event’s highly tech-savvy attendees.”
- 6 Ways Successful Brands are Leveraging Immersive Tech, Subvrsive; X: @GoSubvrsive
14. Leverage iBeacons. “iBeacons can give retailers or brands the opportunity to communicate directly with shoppers not only at a store level but in an aisle or even at a fixture. They are small, low maintenance, low energy and consequently very cost-effective; they can run for up to two years as they have a self-contained power source.
“Utilising iBeacons is a great way of amplifying a shopper’s customer journey and ensuring all touchpoints are attended to.
“Of course Apple had to practise what they preached, so the brand itself began using iBeacons at all 254 of its US retail stores in December 2013. Using the official Apple Store application for iPhone, users could shop for new items, check iPhone upgrade eligibility, or pick up an order they’ve already placed.
“At its free exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, Rolls-Royce made the most of cutting-edge iBeacon technology. Guests were handed iPads on entry that came complete with the ‘Inside Rolls-Royce’ app. The app used iBeacon technology to unlock interactive content as visitors moved through the multi-sensory installations.”
- Joss Davidge, 6 technologies you should be using for brand experiences, Because
15. Use gamification. “British variety store chain Poundland recently developed an interactive digital experience, Basket Chase, to better engage their audience and boost brand awareness.
“Basket Chase is a supermarket sweep-style game where users have to try and catch as many Christmas items in their basket as possible—bonus points are awarded for catching selected items. With fun sound effects and smooth animations, email capture was achieved via a chance for users to win a trolley dash at a Poundland store.
“To further expand the digital marketing campaign, Poundland decided to engage a larger audience to interact with the brand and the game via a fun, engaging video for organic and paid social. The results were very encouraging for the brand, which saw 38,840 plays, 36% returning visitors, and an astounding 63% of players submitting their email addresses.”
- Attilio Botta, How are brands crafting digital experiences that convert and drive revenue?, Bynder; X: @bynder
16. Amplify storytelling with technology. “One of the most effective ways to use technology to create an unforgettable brand experience is to tell compelling stories that resonate with your audience and showcase your brand values, personality, and purpose. Technology can help you create immersive and interactive stories that capture attention, evoke emotions, and inspire action. For example, you can use video, animation, audio, or virtual reality to create rich and captivating narratives that showcase your brand story, products, or social impact. You can also use social media, blogs, podcasts, or webinars to share your brand stories with your audience and invite them to join the conversation.”
- How can you use technology to create an unforgettable brand experience?, LinkedIn; X: @LinkedIn
17. Monitor and manage your brand’s reputation. “In today’s globalized world, it’s also important to monitor how consumers perceive your business and take a proactive strategy to build a positive brand reputation. Probably a third of Pics.io users have come by word of mouth so you’d better protect your brand with reputation management software.
“Use reputation management tool to:
- The Role of Technology in Today’s Strategic Brand Management, Pics.io; X: @TopTechPhoto
18. Leverage geotargeting technology. “Geotargeting enables companies to provide relevant content, using customer location data. Companies can deliver personalized messages, offers, and advertisements to consumers based on the region they live in. The technology uses GPS technology in smartphones, saving resources for businesses on audiences likely to convert.
“According to Marketing Evolution, businesses can use geotargeting technology to reach consumers in several ways. For instance, companies can create geofences or virtual boundaries in a specific location to filter content in that region. When consumers enter or exit that region with their smartphones, companies send targeted ads, notifications, and promotions to consumers. Moreover, this technology enables businesses to analyze consumer behavior. They can tailor their marketing strategies to meet the requirements of their local consumer audience, ultimately boosting sales.”
- Asad Awan, How can technology be used to reach consumers?, Pitch Labs; X: @pitchlabs_
19. Leverage influencer marketing to build a strong social media presence. “Social media platforms are continually evolving, and brands must stay ahead of the curve to maintain relevance. Technology has facilitated the rise of influencer marketing, allowing brands to collaborate with individuals who have built loyal followings. This form of marketing leverages authenticity and trust, enabling brands to reach wider audiences.
“Practical Implementation: Brands can identify influencers that align with their values and target demographics, creating campaigns that resonate with their audience. Utilizing tools to track engagement and ROI can help brands measure the effectiveness of these collaborations.”
- The Future of Branding: How Technology is Shaping Brand Experiences, Brand Repairman
20. Use technology to improve your products and services. “New technology can help you improve your products or services by adding new features, functions, or benefits that solve your customers' problems or enhance their experiences. You can use tools like cloud computing, internet of things (IoT), or blockchain to create more efficient, secure, or innovative solutions. You can also use tools like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), or gamification to create more immersive, engaging, or fun interactions. By enhancing your products or services, you can differentiate your brand from your competitors and increase your customers' satisfaction and loyalty.”
- Your brand is losing market share. Can new technology help you turn things around?, LinkedIn; X: @LinkedIn
21. Build digital communities to create a sense of belonging. “Nike has successfully built a sense of community among its customers through its digital platforms. For example, the Nike Run Club app not only tracks runs but also allows users to share their achievements, join challenges, and connect with other runners. This sense of community fosters a deeper connection to the brand and encourages continued engagement.”
- Aslan Patov, How Nike Engages Customers Through Digital Innovation in Customer Experience (CX), Renascence
22. Enhance video marketing with AR. “One of the most recognizable applications of augmented reality as a marketing strategy is video filters on photos and videos. Social media platforms, like Snapchat and TikTok, made the feature incredibly popular among platform users. Over 250 million Snapchat users access the AR filters daily, and since its launch, Snapchat creators have built and shared over 2.5 million augmented reality lenses.
“Other brands have applied this same technology of superimposing a graphic animation over an image or video to their experiential marketing efforts. In a 2014 campaign, Pepsi installed AR-enhanced bus shelters to make it seem as though unexpected objects, like UFOs and a lion, were coming toward waiting passengers. Rather than showcasing their product, this approach created a unique brand moment that gave consumers a surreal experience they eagerly shared, generating word-of-mouth buzz for Pepsi.”
- Julianna Lopez, Improving Customer Experience: 5 Use Cases for Augmented Reality, CO— by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; X: @growwithco
23. Tap into user-generated content. “Airbnb, a leading online marketplace for accommodations, collaborates with influencers in the travel industry to showcase unique and inspiring travel experiences.
“By partnering with travel influencers and encouraging users to share their travel stories and photos, Airbnb creates a sense of wanderlust and builds trust among potential customers. User-generated content serves as social proof, reinforcing the idea that Airbnb offers authentic and memorable travel experiences.”
- Tumisang Bogwasi, How Brands Attract Customers by Using Digital Technologies, The Brand Shop; X: @thebrandshopbw
24. Keep a finger on brand pulse. “If you’re only checking in on your brand experience semi-regularly, you’ll be working with already out-of-date data. The best way to continually measure sentiment, brand loyalty, consumer intent, and ease of doing business is by using real-time data, powered by AI conversation analytics.
“Today’s brand management software can automatically surface and prioritize emerging trends, risks, and user experience opportunities expressed by consumers, no matter which channel they’re on – from social media accounts to customer service conversations.
“Qualtrics’ XM Discover platform is a great always-on solution for this. It can scour every channel, and every interaction, to flag actionable insights. If you’re listening to the conversations people have about your brand with an omnichannel ear, you get a more complete picture of what’s really going on – and create a culture of action around those insights.”
- Your ultimate guide to brand experience, Qualtrics; X: @Qualtrics
25. Listen to your customers. “Providing an exceptional and personal customer brand experience is the #1 goal for brand management teams. Yet, many organizations struggle to cultivate an accurate and deeper understanding of the brand experience, limiting efforts to improve brand sentiment and increase brand awareness.
“Fortunately, there is a veritable gold mine of insights available to any company that takes the time to actually listen to its customers. Every day in thousands of conversations, your customers are telling your employees how they feel about your brand, products, and services. By effectively capturing and analyzing these interactions, you can extract helpful insights that can help to guide every aspect of brand management.
“CallMiner Eureka provides a powerful yet easy-to-use solution for analyzing omnichannel customer interactions at scale. With Eureka, you can gain insight from every customer conversation on every channel, interpreting sentiment and identifying patterns that can transform the customer brand experience.”
- The key to improving your customer’s brand experience, CallMiner; X: @CallMiner
Enhancing brand experience isn’t a guessing game. It’s a matter of listening, learning and acting on what your customers are saying to you every day. You just need the right tools to make it possible.
From customer feedback to sentiment analysis to journey mapping and more, every layer matters and feeds into the full picture: how your customers feel when they interact with your brand.
That’s where CallMiner can help.
By capturing and analyzing 100% of all customer conversations across all channels (e.g., voice, chat, email, social, and more) CallMiner provides real-time visibility into your brand sentiment, intent, emotion and friction. With CallMiner, you can quickly move past basic, transactional metrics and really understand the nuanced truth about your brand as it’s perceived by your customers.
With CallMiner, you can detect emerging trends and risks, align internal teams around a consistent brand voice, boost personalization efforts, and track how every interaction is shaping overall brand perception. Book a demo today to discover how CallMiner can transform your brand experience.
This is a fundamental distinction. Customer experience (CX) is functional and measures how well a process works, such as the ease of a return, the speed of a support response, or the usability of a website. Brand experience is emotional and perceptual; it's about the meaning a customer derives from every interaction. It asks: Did that interaction make me feel respected, connected, and positive about what this brand stands for? While a good CX builds trust, a strong brand experience builds lasting loyalty.
Surveys are a valuable piece of the puzzle, but they have significant limitations. They provide only a snapshot in time from the small percentage of customers who choose to respond. They often miss the "why" behind the score. Brand experience software, like conversation intelligence platforms, analyzes 100% of customer interactions (calls, chats, emails, social media) in real-time. This gives you a continuous, unbiased stream of data on true customer sentiment, emotion, and emerging trends that surveys can't capture.
The best starting point depends on your biggest perceived weakness. However, conversation intelligence is often the most powerful because customer service interactions are typically the richest source of unsolicited, emotional feedback. Alternatively, a social listening tool can provide a quick, broad view of public brand perception. For companies focused on visual consistency, a Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool might be the first priority.
Absolutely. While the insights are crucial for marketing and product teams, they are equally valuable for customer service leaders. Conversation intelligence can automatically identify compliance risks (e.g., an agent forgetting to read a required disclaimer) and highlight top-performing agents. These interactions can be used to create targeted coaching and training programs based on real-world examples, directly improving service quality and brand representation.