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This “paper presents two studies that combine implicit and explicit measures of brand attitude with regard to two major brands (Coca-Cola and Adidas) and two different consumer brand touch points. [The] results show that implicit and explicit brand attitudes significantly differ regarding the analyzed brands and the analyzed brand touch points.”

“The current study aims to extend the discussion of the brand experience dimensions and to form the brand love, focusing on the members of the youngest consumer segment.”

“In this paper we examine customers’ emotional attachment to a brand name utilizing content extracted from social media. More specifically, we consider the emotions associated to brand love appearing in the form of terms in users’ Twitter posts.”

investigates what types of consumers could fall in love with their favourite brand and therefore examines to what extent brand consciousness and public self-consciousness influence consumers’ level of brand love intensity. Besides, this study investigates the role of brand visibility in brand love relationships.

“The objective of this study is to develop a conceptual model of co-creation and brand love. The main contribution of the present study is that is suggests both a direct impact of co-creation on brand love sub-dimensions as well as an indirect one through quality.”

“…This paper aims to examine how the antecedents of “Brand Love”, brand identification and sense of community influence loyal behavior and willingness to pay a higher price for “Brand Love”.” Structural equation modeling is used to analyze data collected for brands Zara and Modalfa.

“In this paper we establish that anthropomorphism has a very strong relationship with brand love. More specifically, we seek to understand which aspects of brand love are most influenced by anthropomorphism.”

The use of the construct “Brand Love” is relatively recent in explaining consumer behavior. However it is pertinent to think that a stronger consumer connection with a brand influences their behavior, particularly in terms of loyalty and willingness to pay a higher price for their “Brand Love”.

“This article presents a study designed to investigate and map the trajectories of brand love. Consumers described experiences related to the initiation and evolution of their relationships with their most loved brand.”

Nowadays, due to the wide range of products and brands consumers can choose from, organizations are having a hard time standing out and connecting with consumers. Establishing and maintaining a strong consumer-relationship is becoming more important but for organizations it is difficult to create a lovable brand. This study provided better insights to which different congruity facets and their focus led to greater love for brands.

The impact of brand personality and brand image on brand love has not been investigated in any empirical research; this paper aims to address this by developing a causal model incorporating brand love, brand personality, brand image and word of mouth (WOM) to investigate the relationships among them.

This article from The Marketing Review looks at ‘romantic brand love’, a unique facet of brand love that is stimulated by specific themes, products and brand symbolism in advertising. It also outlines the structure of romantic brand love and looks at how it is developed.

A Master’s thesis “conducted through an online survey amongst 410 students between 18 and 26, contributes to a further understanding of this by examining the influence of personality (as measured by the big five), the propensity to anthropomorphize and product type grid on brand love”.

Brian Sheehan talks to MarketingProfs.com’s Kerry O’Shea Gorgone about his new book Loveworks: How the world’s top marketers make emotional connections to win in the marketplace.

In this LinkedIn community question inspired blog post, we address the question if brand love is as effective and applicable in developing countries, and is a person with limited resources more likely to make a decision based on emotion than reason.