{"id":31959,"date":"2010-02-10T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/blog\/?p=31959"},"modified":"2010-02-11T01:54:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:54:41","slug":"mtv-new-logo-for-a-changing-brand-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/mtv-new-logo-for-a-changing-brand-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV &#8211; New Logo for a Changing Brand Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when MTV promised to deliver music via television?\u00a0 The MTV of the 1980s was completely different than the MTV that teens watch today, and the logo has been changed to better reflect that new brand promise.\u00a0 While it&#8217;s true that the brand <em>name<\/em> should actually change in order for the name to match the promise, the company is only changing the logo at this time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearall\">The old logo (shown below) clearly promoted the &#8220;Music Television&#8221; part of the brand name.\u00a0 Afterall, in the early days of MTV, the channel was all about airing music videos.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31962 lazyload\" title=\"mtv_logo_old\" alt=\"mtv_logo_old\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mtv_logo_old.gif\" width=\"214\" height=\"170\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 214px; 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