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40 Product Product 3. Deliver Story Emotional connections with consumers have grown to become extremely important in today’s highly competitive retail market. Over the past recent years, successful fashion brands’ marketing department have worked towards designing new communication strategies to efficiently reach their targeted consumers. As a consequence, a switch in promotion priorities occurred and the use of costly traditional marketing such as advertising dropped considerably (4*). More focus has been given to contemporary marketing practice including in-store experiences and promotional events, which, combined, establish brands closer to their consumers. ‘ “You need to think about how your product become p art of the consumer story” ’ WGSN Story telling: Making it work for your brand. Storytelling is a new marketing technique highly popular nowadays amongst brands. It adds new dimensions to the consumer’s experience, who does not only stand as a client anymore but also as a participant of the experience. Often Story telling cross path way with story living, immersing consumers into a brand multi-perspective experience. Topshop constantly innovate in terms of customer interaction. For the aw13 unique show in collaboration with Google, story-telling and narrative were already the centre points of the project marketing strategy: “We had to make sure there was a clear story released in a strategic narrative order” Cristian Cussen to Fastcompany.com While the Topshop/ Google campaign focused on digital story telling the SS16 show will translate the digital story into a live story by introducing it into a physical space and allowing audience to come and live it alongside the brand. Topshop Village will translate its existing digital experience into a physical experience By organizing the Topshop Village, Topshop will offer the chances to its visitors to become part of its story and history by living an extraordinary experience and therefore generating unforgettable memories, and additional word of mouth promotion, which will forever be linked to Topshop and Covent Garden in visitors’ minds. ‘“Immerse the the consumer in story - they expect to engage, push back and become p art of the process” ’ WGSN Story telling: Making it work for your brand. 41