A Consumer Engagement Tactic That Is Often Misunderstood

With consumers spending an average of 4.4 hours of leisure time daily actively engaged in content on their many screens, brands who have the insight to be interwoven into that content are organically consumed, with each appearance reaffirming preferred brand status through the implied celebrity endorsement received.

One of the most cost affordable ways to become part of that content, and to maintain consumer engagement, is through product placement in entertainment. In this blog, Hollywood Branded shares inside tips and an infographic for brand managers to secure easy and affordable consumer engagement tactics of product placement.

The Celebrity Stamp Of Approval

With 43% of consumers influenced to purchase products after seeing a brand with a celebrity, it’s no wonder that 72% of brands and agencies use entertainment marketing in their current marketing mix.  There is no question about the extraordinarily high level of influence of celebrities in our society.

The clothes that celebrities and social influencers wear one day fly off the shelves the next and when celebrities say they like a certain product, the sales of that product increases by double digit percentages. In this blog, Hollywood Branded shares 12 steps to celebrity event sponsorships brand managers should take before activating their next partnership.

Showing Off Your Brand In Real Time

With the help of Internet, everything's so much faster that we can message friends from the other side of the world in less than a second, video chat with families away from home, and we even check what's happening internationally in real time. For marketers, it means that every single event can now be an opportunity to improve the publicity of their products.

Advertising is no longer just about putting up a commercial on TV or designing a billboard, but being able to respond to real-time events, which provides brands a chance to demonstrate the true "who is" of their brand. In this blog post, Hollywood Branded shares 4 examples of real-time viral marketing responses and provides insight into 4 case studies of successful viral campaigns.

The Celebrity Swag Bag

Celebrity gift bags at events are one of the easiest ways to get the brand into multiple celebrities’ hands at events.  Brands of all categories benefit from the recognition and popularity products gained from the brush of celebrity fame from these gift bags given to celebrities at almost every Hollywood event.

Many brands covet the honor of being chosen as an Oscar or Sundance worthy talent bag item for the press leveraging ability to say a certain celebrity has been given – or chosen - the brand.  But how do you get your brand chosen for this star dusted PR opportunity? In this blog, Hollywood Branded shares 8 ways to successfully leverage brands for celebrity swag bag gifting that leverage press and provide content takeaways for marketers.

Making Sure People Know You Were There

There is a tremendous amount of hard work that goes into creating an event whether you are hosting it yourself or jumping on as a sponsor – booking the venue, organizing the vendors, booking talent to bring in more excitement, building activation stations on site, coordinating staffing, ensuring media will attend and cover - the list is somewhat endless.

To truly optimize all the hard work, brand managers need to create noise and buzz leading up to and surrounding the actual event, with the use of social media at events being the driving tool. In this blog post, Hollywood Branded provides a guide to 11 ways brand managers can use social media to make an event a success, along with a case study.