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What is Brand Community

Impact of New Media in Tourism
A brand community is a specialised, non-geographically bound community, based on a structured set of social relationships among admirers of a brand. It is marked by a shared consciousness, rituals and traditions, and a sense of moral responsibility.
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Communicating and Building Destination Brands With New Media
Anita Goyal (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India )
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7095-1.ch001
Abstract
The chapter aims to discuss building destination brands with the use of brand placements, like in movies and in songs, brand communities, and storytelling through new media options. The objective is to share how these three tools using new media can help build a destination's brand awareness, brand recognition, brand associations, and brand personality. The chapter presents the meaning of new media and old media and then details the meaning and applications of brand placements, brand community, and storytelling. There is a discussion to understand how these three tools help build a destination brand by sharing information with consumers. The use of three techniques will help gain consumers' attention and may develop their attitudes in favour of destination brands to visit the destination.
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Measuring Brand Community Strength
A community in which consumers who share a set of social relationships based upon usage or interest in a product gather and mutually interact.
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Social Media Brand Management
Group of consumers formed on the basis of attachment to a product or brand.
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Social Media and Business Practices
It is a structured composite of social relationships among the admirers of a brand.
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What Makes a Fan a Fan?: The Connection Between Steve Jobs and Apple Fandom
Consumer-centric community which is based on brand consuming experience.
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How Social Media is Transforming Marketing?
It refers to a community that formed on the basis of attachment to a product or brand and built upon shared values, common interest, and connections.
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Understanding Consumer Fandom: Literature Review and Conceptual Framework
Consumer-centric community which is based on brand consuming experience.
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Brand Fandom Insights: Marketing Themes and Trends From Practitioners
A specialized, non-geographically, bound community, based on a structured set of social relations among admirers of the brand (also see Brand Fandom).
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Brands, Fans, and Exchanges: Differentiating Between Fandoms, Transactional and Social Brand Communities, and Brand Publics
A group of people, unhindered by geography, who share a set of social norms surrounding an affinity for a for-profit brand and who are frequently motivated by extrinsic rewards.
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Entertainment Media: Times of Branded Content
Represents consumers social affiliation in association with a brand.
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An Exploratory Study of Metrics Used to Measure the Impacts of Social Media Utilization on Business Performance
A group of people, who are fans of a particular Facebook brand page and have some interests and likes in common.
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Advertising in the World of Social Media-Based Brand Communities
“A specialized, non-geographically bound community, based on a structured set of social relations among admirers of a brand” ( Muniz & O’Guinn, 2001 , p. 412).
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