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Celebrity branding-- Famosobrand - CONTROL SEPT 09 -

Those past months I learned quite a bit about celebrity branding and partnerships. Until then, my professional liaison with brands was merely products and services but never brands that literally speak, caught, eat, laugh and get dressed.

It is definitely and special dimension, is like being with a child that you want to behave as an adult and do what she or he is being told. This dimension makes me wonder about ethics and brands but not today’s topic, let’s focus.

Celebrity branding has existed since humankind records history, from Jesus to Beckhams all from celebrity brands is translated into clothes, trips, pilgrimage, food, watches and so on; nevertheless the commercial twist is generated on the XXth and XXIst century as marketing engineering. Celebrity branding however suffers and in most cases dies from the same sickness: bulimic exposure

To better understand bulimic exposure you must know is an extremely contagious virus that spreads around after a long sun and moon exposure, in other words, when a celebrity brand is totally overexposed with no criteria. Immunity is initially with them but most celebrities are unaware there is no vaccination, by the time they suffer firsts symptoms is too late and few treatments can battle the virus. The virus symptoms are presented in ways such as too much co-branding with totally different even contradictory brands which translates in like having too many friends in Facebook, let’s face it “ You can’t have 5000 friends” and your friends speak about who you are and do, besides, having too many friends just creates confusing situations, therefore, it is important to know them. Another alarm is being ubiquitous, meaning that celebrity brand is present at 2-3 or even 5 places at the same time “live”, really? The worst sign is whenever they try to make a public speech non related to their expertise or topic. Let’s say Victoria Beckham talks about how to save money, not credible, and brands require time to build trust.

Only regional or local celebrity brands can have special immunity based to the fact that out of their boundaries are safe. Spain is a clear example of plenty of celebrity brands that are not known at all out of the country, in case any symptom becomes visible they can just go to France and be safe.

When the virus appears with virulence affects your co-brand friends and no matter what your band is about even if you re an NGO, you’ll get it.

So, my advice is that if you will deal with this type of brands in the future be alert of all symptoms explained.



Estos últimos 4 meses he aprendido algo sobre marcas y famosos, o, lo que en ingles se llama “Celebrity branding”. Hasta la fecha, mi trayectoria profesional con marcas era de servicios y producto pero jamás con  marcas que tosen, hablan, comen, ríen y se visten.

Es una dimensión excepcional, como estar con una criatura que quieres que haga lo que el adulto dice, una dimensión que obviamente abre dudas sobre la moralidad de estas marcas, desde la marca y desde quien ayuda a su comunicación y marketing, pero esta columna no trata tema éticos así que lo dejaremos para otra ocasión.

Las marcas de celebridades existen y han existido desde siempre, desde Jesús a  los Beckham y todo ello significa, ropa,  viajes, peregrinaciones, comidas, restaurantes, relojes….etc…etc., pero el twist comercial que se genera en el siglo XX y XXI  es pura ingeniería de marketing. La mayoría de estas vamos a denominarlas famosobrand padecen y en muchos casos mueren de la misma enfermedad: bulimia expositiva.

 

La bulimia expositiva  es un virus que se contagia fácilmente, fundamentalmente a través de una prolongada exposición solar y lunar, es decir, abusar sin criterio de famosobrand. El famosobrand en principio es inmune a esta enfermedad pero no existen vacunas y además la mayoría ignoran que esta enfermedad les puede afectar; para cuando el contagio ocurre, ya es tarde. Pocos tratamientos pueden dar batalla a este virus. El virus se manifiesta en forma de exceso de diversificación en co-branding , es decir , es como tener 1000 amigos en Facebook sin saber ni quien es tu vecino, de pequeña ya mi madre me decía que es importante saber con quien andas.  Otro síntoma alarmante es cuando el famosobrand habla sin pensar, mejor el silencio, suele darse en eventos públicos en forma de discurso o comentarios mediáticos poco afortunados, la mayoría de  veces no relacionados con el amplio o escaso expertise del famoso/a. El caso mas agudo de virus se da cuando somos capaces de ver al famosbrand en 3 sitios a la vez, es decir como ser Dios y querer tener la facultad de la omnipresencia, no manejar la agenda adecuadamente suele confundir, y se producen malentendidos con estos 1000 , o, 10000 amiguetes (otras marcaS) que se echan en Facebook, alguien se ofende , y ya la hemos liado.

Se salvan los famososbrands regionales para recuperación y tratamiento, en España de esto hay muchos ya para estas famosabrands lo mejor es alejarse del ámbito regional. Las extensiones del virus llegan a ser complejas,  afectando un sinfín de áreas e industrias desde la inmobiliaria hasta las ONG.

Si alguna vez tratan profesionalmente con famosobrands les ruego estén alerta a este virus y  los síntomas explicados. 

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