Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron M. Glazer
Superfandom
How Our Obsessions are Changing How We Buy and Who We Are
W.W. Norton, 2017
What's inside?
To boost branding potential, foster and maintain a productive relationship with your fan base.
Recommendation
Squishable COO Zoe Fraade-Blanar and CEO Aaron M. Glazer provide a tour of the expanding world of pop culture fandom. The authors examine marketing, fan motivations and fan activities ranging from wearing costumes as Star Wars “cosplayers” to working hard to resurrect discontinued Polaroid instant film. Their book describes the allure and dangers that fans hold for marketers of pop culture. It shows how companies such as Disney and Cards Against Humanity successfully maintain mutually beneficial fan relationships. It also offers cautionary tales of fan engagement initiatives that backfired. Fraade-Blanar and Glazer provide an entertaining, informative and practical mix of subculture anthropology and marketing theory. Their insights are relevant reading for marketers, content creators and mavens of pop culture…and these days, pretty much everything is pop culture.
Summary
About the Authors
Zoe Fraade-Blanar is a faculty member of New York University’s Journalism and Interactive Telecommunications Programs and COO of Squishable where Aaron M. Glazer is CEO and co-founder.
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