MAPS Intelligence

Communication Focus

How the category communicates. And how each brand does.

The industry’s communication landscape, then one brand at a time: tone, style, messages, how they have changed, how consistent they are. And, platform by platform, what each one publishes and how well it works. The example is a menswear tailoring brand compared with a younger competitor.

The Communication Focus tabs
Overview, Brands, Evolution, Consistency, Comparison — and a tab for each platform.
Overview

The category’s advertising market.

How much is invested, in which media, who makes themselves heard. And when spending data isn’t public, MAPS says so and reasons on what is available.

The industry’s advertising landscape
Fictional brand names; the industry sources are real.
One brand at a time

How it speaks,
and why it works.

Choose a brand — yours or a competitor’s — and MAPS reconstructs its communication: the tone of voice with examples, the style between rational and emotional, and then messages, campaigns, testimonials, an estimate of spend clearly labeled as an estimate.

Tone of voice with typical examples
Communication style: rational and emotional elements
Testimonials and partnerships with generic names.
Over time

How the communication has changed.
And how consistent it is.

Year by year, the changes of course and the strategic shifts. Then a consistency score — tone, visuals, messages, frequency — with the areas to improve and the recommendations.

The evolution of messages year by year
The consistency score of the two brands
Two brands, the same yardstick.
Comparison

Where they overlap.
And where they really diverge.

Not a table of differences: a reading. Two brands use the same words — “craftsmanship”, “made to measure” — but inhabit them in opposite ways. MAPS says so, and shows where the space is that no one is using.

The comparison: territories, overlaps, divergences
Fictional names and claims.
Platform by platform

YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn.

For each profile — yours and your competitors’ — MAPS reads the published content: how much, in what format, how often, how much the audience engages. Then an analysis that tells you what works and what to do, with the numbers.

The YouTube channel: video formats and AI analysis
YouTube: videos by length and the channel analysis.
The Instagram profile: numbers and AI analysis
Instagram: engagement, formats, frequency, and what to improve. Fictional handles and hashtags.

Post by post.
Why one worked.

The published content, filterable by format, with likes, comments and date. Open a post and MAPS analyzes it: how it did against the benchmark and the profile’s average, what worked, what’s missing, what to do in the next one.

The grid of Instagram posts with format, likes, comments and date
The brand’s latest posts. Blurred photos, fictional names.
The AI analysis of a single post: performance, strengths, areas for improvement, suggestion
The best post of the period: 114K likes, 37.8% engagement — and why.

Here too there’s an Expert you can ask, and the Synthesis ready in PDF or PowerPoint.

In B2B

When you sell to companies,
communication takes other routes.

In B2B, traditional advertising carries little weight. What counts are trade shows, the trade press, technical training, distributor programs, LinkedIn. MAPS knows this: in B2B projects, Communication Focus searches exactly there — which trade shows matter, who exhibits and in what role, which publications the supply chain reads, how lead generation toward decision-makers is done.

Trade shows and events: the calendar that matters for the supply chain, with who exhibits
A manufacturer of automotive aftermarket components: the trade shows that matter for the supply chain. The brand has a fictional name; the trade shows and exhibitors are real.
B2B digital channels: LinkedIn, technical SEO, electronic catalogs
And B2B digital: LinkedIn for lead generation, technical SEO, electronic catalogs.

Same module, a different map: the one your B2B customer actually moves through.

Find the space
no one is using.