Brand Management

At KDDI, we define "Tomorrow, Together" as our brand message to answer the question of what kind of presence we want to be for our customers and society. Through the evolution of the power to connect, we express our commitment to sustainably develop and grow together with our customers, partners, and society toward the future.
KDDI has developed the multi brand strategy for the consumer market, taking full advantage of the features of each brand, under the slogans: "Explore the extraordinary" for the au brand, "Simple-wo-minnani" (Simple for all) for the UQ mobile brand, and "Kimini-pittarino-jiyuue, isshoni" (Together to the freedom that is right for you ) for the povo brand. The slogans are a reflection of our commitment to better understand our customers and continue being the company that people choose.
We are making company-wide efforts to promote the improvement of customer experience, which leads to customer satisfaction. Establishing a strong brand and managing it properly is one of our key issues. For the proper management of our brands, we are striving to raise employees' awareness of issues like unauthorized use of trademarks and inappropriate use of logos by third parties, so as not to affect customer satisfaction or bring any disadvantage to society.

KDDI envisions itself as a company that aims to be "The company the customer can feel closest to," "A company that continues to produce excitement" and a company "Contributing to the sustainable growth of society," in order to realize its brand message. We aim to understand our customers through all points of contact and provide the best services at the right time.
Our communication efforts are strongly promoted as one way to realize this policy.

KDDI advertisements are created with the idea of contributing to improved customer satisfaction, based on the rules of the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations as well as voluntary standards and guidelines on placement of telecommunications services advertisements, to avoid interfering in the autonomous and rational choice of customers by unfair enticement.
When creating an advertisement, each department shares detailed information about the purpose of the advertisement and the details of the product or service. The created advertisement is inspected at each department before it is submitted to the review department for final approval. As a rule implemented since 2013, advertisements cannot be used without passing the final review. We select media that can be effective points of contact for communication with customers, as well as being cost effective.

Promotion Regime

From December 2022, the KDDI brand has been promoting initiatives aimed at realizing "KDDI VISION 2030" through TV commercials and owned media "KDDI Tobira". Through various customer touchpoints, we are strengthening the perception of empathy and expectations for KDDI.
For the initiatives of au, we rolled out the Santaro TV commercial series from January 2015 and "too sophisticated Takasugi-kun" series from January 2018. In an effort to spread the brand image of au under the brand slogan "Explore the extraordinary," we will continue to run both series with the aim of further increasing our popularity.
For UQ mobile as well, the new UQUEEN series was launched in September 2021 and we are striving to get the brand slogan, "Simple-wo-minnani" (Simple for all) widely recognized among consumers and improve the brand's favorability.