A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  Rank Brand 2007 Total 2006 Total % Change  
  203 Wachovia Bank Savings 75,195.3 74,200.7 1.3  
  1010 Wachovia Securities Financial - Investment Services 22,482.5 33,269.0 -32.4  
  1780 Walgreens Film Processing Stores - Drug 12,757.5 15,806.6 -19.3  
  42 Walgreens Stores - Drug 180,679.6 165,163.7 9.4  
  926 Walk Hard Movie 24,365.6 0.0 N/A  
  1366 Wall Street Journal Newspaper 17,033.1 1,870.8 810.5  
  1092 Wal-Mart Apparel Stores - Department 21,099.7 38,959.7 -45.8  
  260 Wal-Mart Electronics Stores - Department 63,778.5 71,580.5 -10.9  
  419 Wal-Mart Entertainment Stores - Department 45,199.3 24,679.3 83.1  
  726 Wal-Mart Grocery Stores - Department 29,913.5 29,345.5 1.9  
  29 Wal-Mart Stores - Department 246,609.4 229,417.5 7.5  
  1456 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Company - General 15,897.2 14,760.9 7.7  
  1635 Wal-Mart Toys Stores - Department 14,085.9 20,037.6 -29.7  
  1685 Walt Disney Cinderella III Video 13,627.4 0.0 N/A  
  1728 Walt Disney Jungle Book Video 13,244.8 0.0 N/A  
  484 Walt Disney Meet the Robinsons Movie 38,905.2 21.5 181,183.4  
  1769 Walt Disney Peter Pan Video 12,862.1 0.0 N/A  
  355 Walt Disney Ratatouille Movie 51,369.2 0.0 N/A  
  1174 Walt Disney Ratatouille Video 19,868.1 0.0 N/A  
  692 Walt Disney World Entertainment Park 31,308.5 102,190.6 -69.4  
  1476 Warner Brothers Movie 15,735.4 16,905.3 -6.9  
  192 Washington Mutual Bank Services 78,442.7 115,791.1 -32.3  
  1001 Washington Mutual Website - Bank Services 22,596.4 0.0 N/A  
  1199 Waste Management Inc. Company - General 19,522.4 21,979.1 -11.2  
  899 Water Horse Legend of the Deep Movie 24,755.6 0.0 N/A  
  1046 Watson's Stores - Pools 21,725.4 25,046.0 -13.3  
  955 We Own The Night Movie 23,557.5 0.0 N/A  
  952 WebMD Website - Medical Services 23,624.3 32,086.1 -26.4  
  1044 Weight Watchers Website - Weight Loss Program 21,786.0 4,224.8 415.7  
  175 Weight Watchers Weight Loss Center 84,655.1 68,331.5 23.9  
  1702 Welch's Fruit Juices 13,443.0 19,006.4 -29.3  
  428 Wells Fargo Bank Services 44,494.4 51,316.8 -13.3  
  17 Wendy's Restaurants - QS 302,814.5 369,586.4 -18.1  
  804 Western Union Wired Communications 27,045.9 38,813.0 -30.3  
  1293 Westin Hotels-Motels 18,129.0 25,133.9 -27.9  
  743 Westwood College 29,229.9 28,223.4 3.6  
  891 Whataburger Restaurant - QS 24,935.4 25,769.7 -3.2  
  1499 White Castle Restaurant - QS 15,476.5 12,503.8 23.8  
  734 Wickes Furniture Stores - Furniture 29,461.5 33,242.0 -11.4  
  663 Wild Hogs Movie 32,147.9 0.0 N/A  
  1569 Windermere Realtors 14,746.3 15,848.3 -7.0  
  1250 Windex Cleaner - All Purpose 18,735.8 0.0 N/A  
  578 Windex Cleaner - Glass 35,043.9 25,462.5 37.6  
  1400 Window World Stores - Window-Door 16,638.4 13,544.1 22.8  
  1534 Winn-Dixie Supermarket 15,136.2 10,964.0 38.1  
  1175 Wish-Bone Salad Spritzers Bottled Salad Dressing 19,866.9 16,329.4 21.7  
  1157 Work At Home Institute Website - Business Venture 20,102.2 17,172.3 17.1  
  623 World Reserve Monetary Exchange Direct Response Product 33,342.9 13,172.6 153.1  
  841 Wrangler Jeans 26,144.8 24,701.7 5.8  
  771 Wrigley's Eclipse Chewing Gum 28,286.5 19,379.0 46.0  
  758 Wrigley's Extra Chewing Gum 28,669.7 30,997.4 -7.5  
  364 Wrigley's Orbit Chewing Gum 50,792.2 48,229.8 5.3  
  842 Wyeth Pharmaceuticals 26,118.2 16,402.9 59.2  
 
Source: Nielsen Monitor-Plus. Note: Brands are ranked by U.S. media spending in thousands of dollars (excludes online).
Methodology: Finding America's Top Brands
How we create the list of American Top Brands and the Superbrands category rankings.
Retail: Best Buy is a leading mobile-phone retailer—isn't that enough? Apparently not. Last month, the big-box retailer acquired 50% of The Carphone Warehouse, which has 2,400 stores in nine European countries. The cost: $2.1 billion.
Travel: Airlines ranked last in customer satisfaction in a recent consumer survey. Combine that with the challenge of rising fuel prices and airline marketers face big challenges in 2008.
Beer, Wine & Liquor: Yellow Tail spent about $13 million on its "Tails you win" campaign. The effort helped grow the brand by yet another million cases in 2007. Having already made wine more approachable, the Australian import has now entered the sparkling wine segment.