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How focused identities can help brands navigate a changing media landscape

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In today's rapidly changing and fast-paced media landscape, consumer attention is a rare and fractured commodity. Within this environment, marketing and branding must serve customers who are attending to multiple media simultaneously, while brand placement moves brands outside of advertisements and into incidental exposure. Some brands offer a strong, consistent, and focused brand identity on all consumer-facing fronts, from advertising to event promotion and retail environments. These brands can retain their effectiveness in this new media reality, as mere exposure is all that's required to activate their rich brand identity. At the same time, brand exposure effects illuminate the vast role of nonconscious attention and processing in consumer cognition and behavior. New research shows that even incidental exposure to a brand can alter consumer behavior in manners consistent with brand identity, producing effects which may persist outside of marketing contexts and occur even when the product is not purchased or consumed. These findings suggest that strong brand identities can retain effectiveness in the modern media environment, but further work is needed to explore their multi-dimensional effects on consumer life.

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  • Brasel, S. Adam, 2012. "How focused identities can help brands navigate a changing media landscape," Business Horizons, Elsevier, vol. 55(3), pages 283-291.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:bushor:v:55:y:2012:i:3:p:283-291
    DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2012.01.005
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