‘‘Once upon a brand’’storytelling practices by Spanish brands

  1. E. Delgado Ballester 1
  2. E. Fernández Sabiote
  1. 1 Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Murcia
Revista:
Spanish journal of marketing-ESIC

ISSN: 2444-9695 2444-9709

Año de publicación: 2016

Volumen: 20

Número: 2

Páginas: 115-131

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/J.SJME.2016.06.001 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Spanish journal of marketing-ESIC

Resumen

Todos hemos escuchado y contado historias. La gente es cautivada por las buenas historias pues tienen la capacidad de trasladarnos a sitios nuevos y hacernos vivir la vida de otros. Además, nuestros pensamientos y emociones parecen estar estructurados en forma de historias. Sin embargo, los consumidores no solo interpretan su exposición a las marcas y su experiencia con ellas a través de las historias, sino que las historias pueden persuadir y fortalecerla marca. Hoy en día, las empresas realizan enormes esfuerzos para construir su marca a través del uso de narrativas en sus actividades de comunicación. Este estudio exploratorio analiza el uso de esta práctica por parte de empresas espanolas ˜ de seis sectores. El estudio usa el análisis de contenido para identificar diferencias entre las empresas que usan y las que no usan las historias, las características y elementos usados en las 104 historias analizadas de 247 sitios web. Además, a través de un análisis cluster se identifican 4 conglomerados. Entre otros aspectos, los resultados muestran los principales objetivos de las historias, las tramas y arquetipos usados. Sin embargo, se constata en general que la narrativa o el uso de historias como parte de la estrategia de comunicación está infrautilizada por parte de las empresas espanolas ˜ y queda mucho por hacer para mejorar la calidad de las mismas. Las implicaciones empresariales de estos resultados también se ponen de manifiesto.

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