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The lifestyle's activities build the salience, not the product

Regular brands often feature their product or service at the centre of emotional narratives. For example, Coca Cola's "Taste the feeling" campaign.

However, a lifestyle brand will feature its audience's activities above its product, so they can create a stronger association with the lifestyle. For example, Bicardi used the action-first, brand-second strategy to tap into the lifestyle of young creatives.

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A Lifestyle Brand

A Lifestyle Brand

Lifestyle brands care about your lifestyle instead of just selling you products. 

Red Bull, Nike, and Harley Davidson are examples of successful lifestyle brands. 

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Fostering interaction between audience members

Fostering interaction between audience members

Consumers rarely associate a sense of community with other buyers of a regular brand. But a lifestyle brand facilitates interaction between their audience members and drive salience in situations alongside product sales.

A good example is Harley Davidson, with a distin...

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Championing an identity or subculture is the end-goal

Championing an identity or subculture is the end-goal

The identity or subculture is not the means to an end, it is the end-goal.

Regular brands use identity and subculture as temporary means to greater ends. However, a lifestyle brand will produce deeper, long-term investments in its audience. It will embed it...

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