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The Future of Brand Growth: Kantar Unites Global Visionaries to Honor the Year's Most Valuable Brands

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AMZN Amazon is listed as one of the world's most valuable and impactful brands, recognized for its growth and consumer trust, but no specific performance metrics are provided. KO Coca-Cola is listed as one of the world's most valuable and impactful brands, recognized for its growth and consumer trust, but no specific performance metrics are provided. DIS Disney is listed as one of the world's most valuable and impactful brands, recognized for its growth and consumer trust, but no specific performance metrics are provided. GOOG Google is listed as one of the world's most valuable and impactful brands, recognized for its growth and consumer trust, but no specific performance metrics are provided.

The Future of Brand Growth: Kantar Unites Global Visionaries to Honor the Year's Most Valuable Brands The third annual Kantar Brand Gala highlights how intelligence, AI and Meaningful Difference power the next era of brand growth

NEW YORK, May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Marketing and advertising leaders from across the globe recently gathered for Kantar's third annual Brand Gala, an exclusive evening dedicated to honoring the world's most valuable and impactful brands. Kantar, the world's leading marketing data and analytics business, hosted the gala to celebrate the launch of the 2026 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands. Kantar's gala announced this distinguished list of winning brands and awarded six brands that exemplify the key principles driving growth today, which included Amazon, Coca-Cola, Disney, Fenty Beauty, Google, and TikTok.

The evening kicked off with a fireside chat between Jeff Greenspoon, CEO, Americas, Kantar, and Jessica Sibley, Chief Executive Officer, TIME, where they unpacked the evolving media landscape and shined a light on the enduring and growing importance of trust for marketers and consumers. Jessica shared how trust is a cornerstone for everything TIME does, "Trust for us is our number one value. It really signifies and stands for something meaningful, and it's become more than just our purpose. It's our actual product."

Throughout the evening, Kantar celebrated the trailblazing brands that have earned consumer trust while redefining global value - achievements validated by Kantar BrandZ's unique metrics of Meaningful Difference and future-focused momentum. Kantar BrandZ, now in its 21st year, quantifies how brand contributes to enterprise value, through a global analysis across 4.6 million respondents, 22,392 brands and 545 categories. According to 2026 data, today's most successful brands turn intelligence into action, integrate AI without losing their human edge, and continuously reinforce what makes them meaningfully different in an increasingly complex, competitive ecosystem.

The featured award winners were:

Kantar BrandZ continues to provide an unparalleled lens into how brands create value, transforming signals into intelligence and intelligence into foresight that drives growth. As the pace of change accelerates, Kantar remains committed to equipping marketers with the insights needed to build Meaningful Difference and sustain long-term momentum. Explore the full 2026 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report here.

About Kantar

Kantar is the world's leading marketing data and analytics business. We deliver the intelligence needed to power brand growth. We provide the signals that help organizations act quickly and confidently. We empower brands to make effective marketing decisions based on predictive evidence. And we help them craft powerful growth strategies rooted in the connection between consumers, brands and enterprise value. All this is powered by our uniquely robust human and synthetic data, our unrivalled IP, our AI-native platform and the team of global brand experts that bring this all together.

Notes to editors

Kantar's Brand Gala was built around Kantar BrandZ, the industry's leading brand valuation with insight from the world's largest and most comprehensive brand equity study: 4.6 million consumers, 22,392 brands, 545 categories and 54 markets. Discover the 2026 ranking of the world's top 100 Most Valuable brands here.

SOURCE Kantar