How to use celebrity in brand building

When harnessed appropriately to a brand and a relevant communications idea, a celebrity can have a powerful amplifying and accelerating effect on people's minds.

How to use celebrity in brand building

Hamish PringlePringle+Pringle

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Executive summary

Andy Warhol's famous maxim has been misquoted from the outset. What he actually wrote on the frontispiece of the catalogue for his exhibition held at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in March 1968 was: "In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."1Nearly all commentators since have left out 'world' because they could not conceive of a...

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