Abstract

Words Have Meaning and Names Have Power—Assessing the Appeal of Personalization of Perceiving One’s Own Name on Coke Bottles

authored by

Sascha Langner, Steffen Schmidt, Nadine Hennigs, Evmorfia Karampournioti, Levke Albertsen

Abstract

Based on the main idea to put ones first name on a coke bottle, Coca-Cola’s “Share a Coke” campaign has since spread to currently more than 80 countries across the globe. And many other brands followed by also printing first names on their product packages (like Nutella or Langnese), although it is still unclear what drives the success of Coca Cola’s campaign in particular. In order to examine Coca-Cola’s campaign from a holistic consumer behavior perspective, the focus of the present study is on the assessment of (positive and negative) explicit and implicit consumer reactions. In this context, the following research questions are investigated: What is the impact of a personalized product packaging with regard to customer’s explicit and implicit brand-related associations? Are the explicit and implicit effects of different brand assessments influenced by different degrees of brand consciousness? An experimental study was conducted to measure the product-related explicit and implicit brand assessments. In the study a self-report questionnaire and a reaction time measurement (SC-IAT) was used. In January 2015 over 228 consumers participated. In order to test the main hypotheses, mean and group comparisons were applied. Our results reveal that for customers with a high brand consciousness, Coca-Cola’s product personalization positively affects attitudinal brand assessment on an explicit and implicit level. The opposite effect was shown for customers with low levels of brand consciousness toward Coca-Cola: Here the personalized product design evoked negative attitudinal associations on an automatic and impulsive information processing level.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Marketing und Management

Type

Contribution to book/anthology

Pages

629

No. of pages

1

Publication date

07.01.2017

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Marketing, Strategy and Management

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45596-9_119 (Access: Closed)