YouGov has released its US Buzz Rankings list for 2016, revealing that Amazon again enjoyed the best public perception, for the fourth consecutive year. The study, which measures consumer perceptions of brands, asks respondents whether they have heard anything about the brand during the prior 2 weeks and subtracts the percentage who answer they have heard something negative from the proportion who have heard something positive.
Six brands from last year’s top 10 made this year’s list, with Amazon, Netflix, YouTube and Google again occupying the top 4 positions (in that order). The other two brands again appearing on the list saw varying fortunes, with Lowe’s climbing 4 spots to #5 but the Cancer Treatment Centers of America dropping a couple of spots to 7th.
New to the list this year are: M&M’s (#6); Home Depot (#8); Dawn (#9); and Cheerios (#10). They replaced the following brands from last year’s list: Apple (#6 last year); Samsung (#7); iPhone (#8); and Walgreen’s (#10)....
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