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TY - CHAP
T1 - Innovating and trading TV formats through brand management practices
AU - Singh, Sukhpreet
AU - Oliver, John
PY - 2015/10/30
Y1 - 2015/10/30
N2 - Television formats form a major cultural export and yet, there is no protection under copyright law. Format copycats or imitators freely develop game, reality and talent shows based on successful format ideas. Despite this, the format industry has developed an ingenious and complex suite of market based practices that are allowing a thriving format industry to appear. This chapter discusses how TV format makers use brand management practices, in the absence of any legal solutions, to innovate and trade in their products. These include a number of practices such as: developing and managing the format brand identity, developing localized brand extensions and leveraging the producers brand reputation.
AB - Television formats form a major cultural export and yet, there is no protection under copyright law. Format copycats or imitators freely develop game, reality and talent shows based on successful format ideas. Despite this, the format industry has developed an ingenious and complex suite of market based practices that are allowing a thriving format industry to appear. This chapter discusses how TV format makers use brand management practices, in the absence of any legal solutions, to innovate and trade in their products. These include a number of practices such as: developing and managing the format brand identity, developing localized brand extensions and leveraging the producers brand reputation.
KW - TV formats
KW - television brand management
KW - media brands
KW - branding
KW - corporate brands
KW - brand innovation
KW - brand protection
KW - brand extension
KW - format rights
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783319182353
VL - 1
SP - 187
EP - 197
BT - Handbook of Media Branding
A2 - Siegert, G.
A2 - Förster, K.
A2 - Chan-Olmsted, S.
A2 - Ots, M.
PB - Springer International Publishing
CY - Cham, Switzerland
ER -