Emotionally Resonant Branding: The Role of AI in Synthesising Dynamic Brand Images for Artists in the Music Industry

Artificial Intelligence (AI) expands its recognition rapidly through the past few years in the context of generating content dynamically, remarkably challenging the human creativity. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of AI in enhancing personal branding for musicians, particularly in crafting brand images based on emotions received from the artist’s music will improve the audience perceptions regarding the artist’s brand. Study used a quantitative approach for the research, gathering primary data from the survey of 191 people—music lovers, musicians and music producers. The survey focuses on preferences, perceptions, and behaviours related to music consumption and artist branding. The study results demonstrate the awareness and understanding of AI’s role in personal branding within the music industry. Also, results indicate that such an adaptive approach enhances audience perceptions of the artist and strengthens emotional connections. Furthermore, over 50% of the participants indicated a desire to attend live events where an artist’s brand image adapts dynamically to their emotions. The study focuses on novel approaches in personal branding based on the interaction of AI-driven emotional data. In contrast to traditional branding concepts, this study indicates that AI can suggest dynamic and emotionally resonant brand identities for artists. The real time audience response gives proper guidance for the decision-making. This study enriches the knowledge of AI’s applicability to branding processes in the context of the music industry and opens the possibilities for additional advancements in building emotionally appealing brand identities.

A Review on Apparel Fashion Trends, Visual Merchandising and Fashion Branding

Visual merchandising encourages customers to enter the store by making it appealing to them and influencing their perception of it. It is the art of putting together effective display designs and ideas in order to boost store traffic and sales. It’s also a way to engage with customers and influence their purchasing decisions. A fashion trend occurs when a particular item, silhouette, color, or other new look rises in popularity. It changes with the seasons, and the store serves as a hub for communicating these changes to potential customers. Because items must be sold within a certain time frame, several display tactics are used to best present the merchandise and communicate the current fashion trends to customers. Visual merchandising becomes a key aspect of difference from merchants in the same category as retail firms, particularly fashion brands, try to compete in an already saturated market. Effective branding is now a vital success component for all types of fashion firms. Fashion brands may use effective branding tactics to build equity, promote consumer brand loyalty, and increase profitability. Visual merchandising is critical for inferring various customers’ perspectives and adding value to businesses. Its major goal is no longer to make items appealing in order to sell them quickly;it is rather to stand out, develop the correct brand image, and give the greatest possible customer experience. Visual merchandising aspects, when employed correctly, can infiltrate the buyer’s brain and prompt them to generate a favorable opinion of the store, allowing it to leverage its brand image. In this context, this research review focuses and aims to study the link between visual merchandising and Apparel Fashion trends, to study the relationship between visual merchandising and fashion branding and to find out the research gaps and scope for future research directions in the area of visual merchandising applied in fashion apparel industry.

Exploring the Attractiveness of Companies Branding D&I to Potential Employees in Online Recruitment

Concrete action on diversity and inclusion(D&I)is critical to companies’value creation and brand.Companies that intentionally fail to attract and retain a diverse talent pool will struggle to innovate,compete,and prosper.The advantages of a diverse and inclusive workplace include the reduction of homogenous thinking and an increase in novel ideas and perspectives due to the wealth of talent from diverse backgrounds.Previous studies have focused on the benefits of corporate D&I from a corporate perspective;however,there is scant research on the impact of corporate D&I from employees’perspectives.Resultingly,this study,through an online questionnaire,proposes to examine the impact of employer brand D&I on potential employees in online recruitment channels from the perspective of potential employees.The study results indicate that most Chinese companies still exhibit low levels of D&I during recruitment.This study also included an empirical analysis of 267 valid samples,which showed that:(1)the D&I of employer brand perceptions positively impact job search intentions,behaviour,and decision making.(2)Companies’D&I has the most significant influence on job seekers’decision making,followed by behavioural influence and cognitive influence.(3)The type of job seeker plays a moderating role in the relationship between employer brand perception and job search intention,behaviour,and decision making.(4)Online recruitment’s increasing popularity amplifies employer branding’s effect.Based on the findings,this study suggests how companies can use D&I branding strategies to attract quality talent and increase job seekers’job search intentions.

The City Next Door;Branding Alexandria, Egypt

Destination branding is a process of branding a place,a product,or a city,to attract investment,people,and capital.The growing role,significance and importance of destination branding and image in tourism is being widely explored.There is a growing body of research in destination branding and specifically with relation to tourism products and brands around the world and how they can use certain elements(element mix)to develop a sense of identity to a place.Branding has become very important in travel and tourism industry since it influences tourists’decisions to visit a place or a city and therefore it affects their level of satisfaction.The main aim of destination branding is to create value and enable destination marketers to successfully use the unique characteristics and attributes associated with the city(e.g.,products,services,arts,technology,location,culture,etc.)to differentiate,position their destinations and sustain a competitive advantage over other tourism brands around the globe.This paper,using case-study methodology,aims to report on a wider project with the aim to develop“Alexandria—the city next door”brand to be available for tourists’choices when selecting a destination to visit.

Employer Branding Management As A Strategic and Organizational Control Tool

The issue of employer branding has always had an intrinsic interdisciplinary content, since it builds a bridge for cross-fertilization between different disciplines （strategic marketing, strategic management, and human resources management）. This paper presents employer branding as an approach based on effective strategic organizational resources and a precise employer branding management process. In this paper, the target is to define a possible frame in order to interpret employer branding techniques as control and regulation mechanisms. Control in organizations has long been a topic of interest for researchers and practitioners, alike who generally recognize that control mechanisms are needed to ensure that organizations may achieve their goals. It has been carried out a field work on the Italian Aeronautical Meta district, that generates annual revenues equal to EUR 8.7 billion and employees 36,300 people, of whom approximately 10% are employed in the space sector. Through this field work, the intention aim is to understand if and how employer branding may create, enforce, and set up internal and shared meaning and values. In particular, stemming from the empirical research＇s evidences, this paper tries to conceptualize employer branding as a factor to persuade and influence the way that organizational actors enact in a socially constructed context. In this effort, the aim is to understand how managers may affect meanings, values goals, and opinions through an effective action on employer branding that can play a crucial role in affecting sense-making processes, meanings, interpretations of the symbolic environment. The paper therefore opens up to new horizons, since it embraces a new application for employer branding, considering it as a modern control system and proposing an innovative approach in managerial control, founded on organizational identity as a key concept in an organizational citizenship＇s perspective

Destination Branding： Brand Management and Brand Engagement of Health and Wellness Tourism in Thailand and the ASEAN Region

The 10 ASEAN CAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations） countries in Southeast Asia have been united for ASEAN community in 2015. Thailand is one of the members who take health and wellness tourism responsibility about tourism and product information, and health and wellness tourism standardization. Therefore, the researcher has studied in health tourism image in Thailand and ASEAN, because the image is significant cost to promote health and wellness tourism. They are factors that influence image management and also image attributes about health and wellness tourism in Thailand and ASEAN countries. In this study, the author aimed at the examination of influenced factors and the attributes for Thailand＇s and ASEAN＇s images of health and wellness tourism management and finding out the relations among cognitive, affective, and brand engagement in Thailand and ASEAN. This research could be used as guideline information for creation of plans and governmental policies of health and wellness tourism of Thailand and ASEAN region as well. The data obtained in this study included overall image and destination brand engagement, or personal engagement through way of life and daily life of Southeast Asian people. Southeast Asia has its uniqueness according to its slogan ASEAN Southeast Asia： Feel the Warmth. This is considered as one of unique activities in health and wellness tourism. Tourists can have their direct experiences with unique tradition of each nation.

Brands,Branding and Regional Cluster Development:The Emerging Economic Geographies of the Chinese Baijiu Industry

This paper investigates the vigorous economy of the Chinese Baijiu(a traditional liquor) with regard to the specific brands,their production and consumption and marketing,intersected with provincial and regional identities.The paper explores the ecological,cultural,social and political forces favoring or obstructing the Baijiu products’ branding across various provinces and regions.The Baijiu production largely falls into four categories,and clusters around seven distinct areas within the Upper Yangtze River Baijiu Agglomeration.These industrial areas have distinct development trajectories and branding strategies,impacted by factors such as environment,culture,brand identity and regional policy.The paper suggests that further work be done to gather research,to further strategize the branding,and to integrate the Chinese regional clusters into global value chains and global development.

Dynamic Analysis on the Main Transmission Device of Wooden Ice Cream Sticks Branding Machine

In order to reduce the labor intensity,improve the production efficiency and enhance the equipment stability and the branding accuracy of the pattern,we have completed a double-row high-efficiency wooden ice cream stick branding machine structural design.The rigid-flexible coupling dynamics model is established and the movement and stress of the first-stage chain drive are calculated and analyzed.The comparison of the theoretical calculation results shows that the dynamic modeling and the structural design of the equipment are reasonable and the result of dynamic calculation also provides the basis of load data for dynamic strength calculation of structural components.

Price leadership strategy or branding strategy:an empirical test of indigenous Chinese exporters

The effects of price leadership strategies and branding strategies on the export performance of indigenous Chinese exporters with a focus on developing country markets and developed country markets are examined based on the principles of strategy-environment co-alignment and marketing segmentation theory. Findings suggest that when focusing on developing country markets, the use of a branding strategy is more likely to enhance export performance. When focusing on developed country markets, neither the use of a price leadership strategy nor the use of a branding strategy enhances export performance. Finally, theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are discussed.

Towards a Holistic Place Branding Model:A Conceptual Model Proposal

This paper proposes a comprehensive and integrative model which will contribute to a successful place branding.The new model is proposed based on the analysis of 30 previous place branding models and enriched by the literature review.The result of this work is the conceptual model that offers a more global perspective of place branding and consists of the following 11 interrelated elements:place,brand leadership,community stakeholders engagement,brand vision,brand architecture,brand identity,brand communications,brand image,brand experience,brand actions and brand evaluation,which must be incorporated into any place branding model as they prove to be relevant and play a strategic role in the branding process.They are essential for place brand development and management,and represent key success factors of place brands.The research implications are to give researchers a guide for literature development,theory building,and future research.The practical implications are to offer practitioners,professionals,local officials,and even governments a model that explains the place branding process to effectively create and manage a place brand.Unlike previous models which take different perspectives on the branding process,this one is holistic as it encompasses(almost)all of them.The new model highlights also new elements that do not appear in the previous ones.

The importance of product positioning and global branding for sustaining competitive advantage within the companies＇ global marketing strategy

In today＇s globally competitive world, because of the globalization, new business patterns and the changing nature of consumers, the companies feel the necessity to act strategic in the market and to reach up the target markets and sustain maximum customer satisfaction in order to compete and survive. In this context, within the study it is tried to define product positioning in international markets and global branding strategies conceptually and to focus on their contributions to the overall competitive advantage of the company. Initially, the study tries to present the association between product positioning and global branding approaches of the companies and sustaining competitive advantage. Justifications for the examination of the importance of companies＇ international product positioning and global branding orientations as a basis of creating competitive advantage were derived from the literature. It is suggested that the companies＇ product positioning and global branding orientations and sustaining competitive advantage are the important aspects in multinational management and international business areas. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of product positioning and global branding strategies of the companies with special references to various industries and global brands.

Palestinian Nation Branding via Public Diplomacy

The term“branding”is still contested when linked to nations;colleagues in Palestine would argue that the term“promotion”could be of a more positive impact;in fact,this paper will examine this issue as scholars automatically link“branding”to products,business,and trade.It is not easy to imagine the nation as a brand;a nation cannot re-make itself,like a company launching a new product.Branding a nation is inspired by its national identity which started to evolve with the evolution of the nation states;it heavily relies on people’s attachment to a shared land,shared history,shared language,shared culture,religion,clothing,behaviours,values,attitudes,or positions in dealing with internal and external variables.It is crucial to distinguish the identity for a nation which is usually done through studying the elements depending on which a nation promotes itself using public diplomacy.Public diplomacy is a soft power’s key instrument which we cannot ignore;in soft power,the narrative and the reality have to reflect each other.A nation’s identity is partly inherited from history and partly a continuing construction;there are aspects of national reputation which can be altered,for better or worse,by choice of actions,words,and images.Even the inherited parts of national reputation are open to revision as time goes by,states have gun a long way in their nation branding and Palestine cannot remain indifferent.This paper aims to address the importance of Palestinian national branding and to further shed light on how this could be done.Based on examples of other successful countries―case studies,the paper shall introduce a number of elements that shape a national identity;those elements are expected to inspire scholars and policy-makers in determining what is worth promoting in Palestine that would lead to successful branding of Palestine as a nation.In branding for Portugal,Cristiano Ronaldo,the soccer player was determined to be a national brand;the Portuguese chose to brand themselves with his initials CR7.Today,if you read,hear,or visit Portugal,you will find a lot related to CR7,whether we like soccer or not,CR became an attractive brand for his country.For their nation branding,Portuguese chose tourism,cuisine,culture,and sports rather than their history of conquering the world,and this paper will be inspired by this example and others.In Palestine,not much work had been put on nation branding;therefore,this paper will introduce the concepts and will try to examine how important it is for serving the national cause and the strategic national goals,in doing so,the paper will try to answer the following questions:What is nation branding?How is public diplomacy related to nation branding?Can public diplomacy replace nation branding?What is the image of Palestine and Palestinians abroad?How are we seen by others vs.how do we wish to be seen?Does Israel play a role in branding Palestine and Palestinians internationally?Is it important to consider a national brand/s for Palestine?What is the Palestine that we aspire to promote?

The Outcomes of the Co-branding Strategy

The objective of this study is to investigate the outcomes of co-branding strategy in the assessment of the brand managers of analysed companies on European market and verification if a co-branding gives the opportunities for internal and external development. The analysis of correlation between the outcomes of co-branding and two major categories of co-branding strategy （ingredient branding and symbolic co-branding） are also important. In the paper the results of empirical studies are presented. Recent primary research （2009-2011） was conducted in 50 companies which are present in minimum three countries of Europe and have realized co-branding strategy for three years. Questionnaire surveys were carried out throughout all 120 identified companies. As a result, data from 50 companies were obtained, which amounted to 41.7% of all companies polled. The analysis of findings indicates the different outcomes in case of two major categories of co-branding strategy. The results show the general evaluation of the co-branded projects as well as the possibilities of the internal and external development. The results also emphasize the significance of symbolic character of the co-branding strategy. The recommendations in this study are set forth, of course, with the caveat as to the limitations of the sample. Nonetheless, it is believed that the results of this study will alert companies to the potential outcomes of co-branding taking into account the category of cooperation. This research has resulted in practical contribution. From the substantive stand point, this research has shed light on the outcomes of co-branding. This information can be useful for managers to understand which effects can be expected. From a theoretical and practical standpoint, this research contributes to brand alliances research and has provided a better understanding of outcomes of co-branding and the correlations between the possibilities of internal and external development and chosen category of co-branding strategy. This text may contribute to further research in this area and as a kind of motivator for further discussion on this topic.

An Analysis of Consumers’ Perception Towards Rebranding: A Study of Hero MotoCorp

One of the significant marketing changes in the past decade involves the dramatic increase in the variety of ways in which consumers can express their identities, A key driver of this change has been the growth of one-to-one marketing and mass customization, This trend has led many companies to rebrand and reposition their products or services focusing on functional attributes to focusing on how they fit into a consumer’s lifestyle, In the recent years, we have seen a growing trend of rebranding in India such as Vodafone, Airtel, Hero MotoCorp (erstwhile Hero Honda) to media channels to across different industries, This trend has compelled several business conglomerates to rebrand and get a makeover of their products and services, These organizations, while conducting the rebranding exercise, emphasize on concentrating on the functional attributes to how they fit into a consumer’s lifestyle which are received very well by business houses, By revitalizing their brands, business houses are ready to face a tough challenge in the marketplace and earn a respectable market share too, The rebranding exercise of Hero MotoCorp provides fascinating insights, The drivers and methodology adopted by the two-wheeler manufacturer which includes the makeover of the brand architecture, brand name, brand logo and the positioning with the theme of creation, renewal and re-energizing the brand are worth mentioning.

Destination Branding by the Brand of Hotel

Most destinations around the world are alike in the services delivered to the tourists.Hence,it is becoming difficult for tourists to differentiate one destination from the other due to the similarity of resources,activities,and other services.Tourism destination,just like any other product,requires a distinguishing factor and that is where branding comes into play.Hence the aim of the study is to critically examine the impact of hotel brands on the branding of a destination.

Study on Hotel Branding Strategies

With the fiercer competition of hotel business, much attention has been paid to hotel brand equity, and particular attention has been given to the concept of hotel brand and ways to improve hotel brand management. In this paper, the concept of hotel brand and problems in building hotel brand are discussed, and strategies for hotel branding are put forward.

The Study of Evaluation Index System of Ingredient Co-branding Image Based on the Apparel Industry

On the analysis of Biel model and fruits from other scholars, conbining fast fashion clothing brands＇ characteristics and advantages/functions of ingredient co-branding, we built evaluation index system of ingredient co-branding image from three aspects： product image, corporate image and marketing hype image. It will have important effects between ingredient enterprises and terminal companys when they implement co-branding strategy.

What China Can Learn from US Branding Strategies

Chinese textile industry is a fledgling in terms of brands strategy, not yet able to flap its wings in all-weather climates of international market. How to build up a good brand to be a great company or to have a successful firm with a great brand is of primary concern if China continues to take the lead in the coming days, not satisfied with its status quo as OEM supplier.

Green Branding

China＇s Fujian Province is leading the way in successfulecological developmentFROM potholed roads,polluted skies and frequent water shortages to a gold medal winner of International Garden City awarded by the United Nations Environment Program and International Federation of Park and Recreation Administration.

Branding and brand equity measurement in the beer industry of Thailand

The objective of this research is to investigate a new concept model of brand equity measurement in the economy beer industry of Thailand by using five factors of brand equity which are brand awareness, brand liking, brand purchase intention, brand satisfaction and brand loyalty along with the consumer behavior. The respondents are 379 males and females who have at least occasionally had a beer during the past few years. The findings show that males are more likely to drink beer regularly and in larger quantities. The average respondent seems to drink beer in order to relax and socialize at parties. Respondents recognize Leo beer more than the other two brands in this study. Descriptive statistics and statistical analysis are presented for individuals, managers, as well as for advertising and marketing professionals. Suggestions and links for personal brand building are also offered.