Chapter 3 - Selfbranding and social influencers
Vloggers '' have identified, defined and crafted their own identity and communicated it across the virtual world where they know their target audience will be '’ Self-branding is the act of creating a brand for yourself. Obviously, but what does it mean, what does it include? Self-branding is related to the way others perceive you as a person and how you sell yourself as your brand. The content posted by vloggers (or anyone, really) is already part of their self-branding, as it shows how they want to portray and expose themselves, what their image is and which values and reputation they want to be associated with. If this self-branding is successful the creator can develop into a self-made celebrity. So if one wants to be taken seriously it is critical to take the self-branding serious as well. Let’s have a look at the visual self-branding of YouTubers. First of all, most YouTubers have created a specific name for their channel, which addresses their own name, o...