Marketingowa analiza komunikacyjnych walorów sloganów reklamowych miast
Marketing Analysis of Communicative Values of Cities’ Advertising Slogans

Summary/Abstract: Slogans are important strategic tools used in marketing and branding activities of towns and cities. The aim of this article is to identify strategies of formulating slogans of cities by establishing categories of associations with the city, which their creators want to potentially cause among recipients of its marketing activities. Using the content analysis technique 144 slogans of small and medium cities in Poland were reviewed. The study’s findings showed that the creators of cities slogans frequently refer to the characteristics of the brand personality of the city, consisting mainly of its dimensions such as honesty and excitement, as well as to benefits of the experience. The results of studies have practical implications, because they provide the local governments with the strategy of formulating slogans of competitive cities. They have also social implications, showing the ways of influencing the perception of consumers as receivers of marketing activities of cities. The article is of the research nature.

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