BrandIndex reveals the most popular US brands of 2013

It's a long hard battle to the top, but Amazon.com pulled it off to be awarded the most popular kid in class, beating digital giants such as Netflix, Samsung, Apple and Google to the top spot.

It’s a long hard battle to the top, but Amazon.com pulled it off to be awarded the most popular kid in class, beating digital giants such as Netflix, Samsung, Apple and Google to the top spot.

Christmas 2013 was Amazon.com’s best season yet, with Cyber Monday seeing a colossal 36.8m items ordered worldwide, a significant increase on the 26.5m sold in 2012.

According to the data, customers embraced Amazon’s own Kindle products (pictured, with CEO Jeff Bezos), which were revealed to be its top selling items at Christmas. Good customer service coupled with its super-speedy Amazon Prime service were also behind its success, with many customers preferring to head to the site for their shopping over the stressful high street.

By carrying out around 2.5m interviews a year and posing the question: “If you’ve heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks through advertising, news or word of mouth, was it positive or negative?”, the BrandIndex from YouGov composed a list of the 25 most loved brands below:

  1. Amazon.com
  2. Ford
  3. Subway
  4. History Channel
  5. Lowe’s
  6. YouTube
  7. Walgreen’s
  8. V8
  9. Cheerios
  10. Kindle
  11. Samsung
  12. Netflix
  13. Aleve
  14. Olive Garden
  15. Home Depot
  16. iPad
  17. iPhone
  18. Apple
  19. Google
  20. M&M’s
  21. Target
  22. Geico
  23. Tide
  24. Dawn
  25. John Deere

It looks like its been a tough year in terms of brand perception for Apple, whose own tech creations – the iPad and iPhone – as well as its main rival – Samsung – were placed above it. Better luck in 2014, Apple!

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