Branding och hashtags : En analys av Daniel Wellingtons material på Instagram

Sammanfattning: The aim of this thesis is to get an understanding of how Daniel Wellington is using visual communication to communicate their brand identity on Instagram. It is also about how they use hashtags to engage their consumers into their brand community. The questions this thesis answers are “How does Daniel Wellington use visual communication to communicate their brand identity on Instagram?” and “How does Daniel Wellington use hashtags to engage their consumers?”. To answer these questions consumer to consumer marketing, influencer marketing, semiotics and snapshot theory have been used as a theoretical basis. Methods used for this thesis is a semiotic analysis with denotation and connotation. Through denotation and connotation, the chosen pictures have been carefully analysed to answer the questions of the thesis.             The results from the analysis shows that Daniel Wellington communicate their brand identity very good because the pictures posted on their Instagram represented it well. The sign of engagement in the hashtags turned out to be very engaging for the consumers to keep wanting to post pictures with and of Daniel Wellington’s products.