Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by davisml » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 7:01 PM UTC

Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look
abcnews.go.com

Re: Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by count » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 7:20 PM UTC

Completely unrelated to the story, but why in the world does ABC News use 'abcnews.go.com' instead of just 'abcnews.com' (which redirects)? And could 'go.com' look any more like a domain squatting page?

Re: Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by mishmash » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 7:32 PM UTC

count wrote: post #2

Completely unrelated to the story, but why in the world does ABC News use 'abcnews.go.com' instead of just 'abcnews.com' (which redirects)? And could 'go.com' look any more like a domain squatting page?

ESPN does this too and I have no idea why. Maybe it's legacy from the portal years?

Re: Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by kennu » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 7:34 PM UTC

count wrote: post #2

Completely unrelated to the story, but why in the world does ABC News use 'abcnews.go.com' instead of just 'abcnews.com' (which redirects)? And could 'go.com' look any more like a domain squatting page?

It sets a global cookie for .go.com:

Set-Cookie: SWID=6AF8F108-71B2-4874-ACB7-29718B8D7C91; path=/; expires=Wed, 05-Jan-2031 19:33:42 GMT; domain=.go.com;

Re: Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by umjames » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 7:43 PM UTC

mishmash wrote: post #3

count wrote: post #2

Completely unrelated to the story, but why in the world does ABC News use 'abcnews.go.com' instead of just 'abcnews.com' (which redirects)? And could 'go.com' look any more like a domain squatting page?

ESPN does this too and I have no idea why. Maybe it's legacy from the portal years?

Disney owns ABC and ESPN. I vaguely remember plugs on TV in the mid-90s that mentioned go.com when referring to ABC or ESPN. I think this was the time period when most people were used to hearing AOL keywords instead of actual URLs and domain names when websites were advertised.

So yeah, it's probably legacy.

Re: Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by cookiecaper » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 7:44 PM UTC

mishmash wrote: post #3

count wrote: post #2

Completely unrelated to the story, but why in the world does ABC News use 'abcnews.go.com' instead of just 'abcnews.com' (which redirects)? And could 'go.com' look any more like a domain squatting page?

ESPN does this too and I have no idea why. Maybe it's legacy from the portal years?

ABC paid a lot of money for Go.com back in the bubble years, but yeah, it is pretty weird that that property has persisted for so long. They must have some reason to believe that it is beneficial.

Re: Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by dkl » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 7:46 PM UTC

I'm just sad this wasn't about the language Logo.

Re: Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by ntulip » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 7:51 PM UTC

And at the same time - Starbucks raises the prices of their Venti sized coffee. for real.

Re: Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by bumped » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 7:54 PM UTC

Reminds me of a story I read today about nodejitsu -> http://blog.nodejitsu.com/development-branding-and-4am-deli-...

Re: Starbucks Gives Logo a New Look

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Post by aresant » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 8:04 PM UTC

Two interesting tidbits in 3 pages on topic of the logo:

"the company felt it no longer needed to reinforce its name at every turn"

and

"The new wordless logo also is better suited to the company's expansion beyond coffee into a wider array of business lines and into more international markets."

The second point makes good sense to me, the first not as much.

As in removing "Coffee" from the logo is a good idea.

But eliminating "Starbucks" entirely going to cost them brand association, hands down, unecessarily.