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Personal Brand Authenticity and Social Media: The Top 5 Football Players’ Case

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he authenticity is a key factor which attracts the interest of young consumers in the more and more dominant virtual world full of “fake news”,“fake images”, and “fake impressions”. The celebrity authenticity is also important when it comes to gain the positive attitude of the audience and the success in the long term. The unique talent is crucial for all stars. According to football stars, the authenticity of their personal brands next to the extreme talent also brings greater financial success to the player due to the cooperation with media and advertising industry. The aim of the presented study is to explore the antecedents of the personal brand authenticity of the TOP5 most valuable football celebrities in the social media. To do it, the authors conducted a study among 496 Polish social media users. The presented study is the first sector analysis which assesses the authenticity of football celebrities' brands. The data have been analyzed by the structural equation modeling method (SEM). The findings suggest that consistency and candidness are the factors which to the greatest extent determine the authenticity of football celebrities in the social media.

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materiały konferencyjne indeksowane w Web of Science
Title of issue:
Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Social Media strony 118 - 124
ISSN:
2055-7213
Language:
English
Publication year:
2018
Bibliographic description:
Kucharska W., Firgolska A..: Personal Brand Authenticity and Social Media: The Top 5 Football Players’ Case, W: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Social Media, 2018, Academic Conferences and Publishing international Limited ACPI,.
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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