{"id":31118,"date":"2024-06-27T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/?p=31118"},"modified":"2024-06-28T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T13:43:41","slug":"brand-europe-needs-a-hero-movie-branding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/2024\/06\/brand-europe-needs-a-hero-movie-branding\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brand Europe\u2019 Needs a Hero Movie: Reimagining EU\u2019s Founding Father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Union faces several existential challenges. It\u2019s game time for the most successful \u2014 yet still fragile \u2014 international project in history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this article I argue that to endure, prosper and accomplish ambitious integration objectives, the EU must also revisit its branding. Because collective action and true solidarity are impossible without shared emotions. I propose fostering love for \u2018Brand Europe\u2019 by creating Europe\u2019s first hero movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what better hero than Jean Monnet, a French cognac merchant, tireless adventurer, and the EU\u2019s charismatic founding father?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/2024\/06\/brand-europe-needs-a-hero-movie-branding\/#In_the_Footsteps_of_Umberto_Eco\" >In the Footsteps of Umberto Eco<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/2024\/06\/brand-europe-needs-a-hero-movie-branding\/#Time_is_Ripe_for_a_Jean_Monnet_Movie\" >Time is Ripe for a Jean Monnet Movie<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/2024\/06\/brand-europe-needs-a-hero-movie-branding\/#The_Problem_with_Brand_EU\" >The Problem with Brand EU<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/2024\/06\/brand-europe-needs-a-hero-movie-branding\/#The_Fantastic_Life_of_Mr_Europe\" >The Fantastic Life of Mr. Europe<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/2024\/06\/brand-europe-needs-a-hero-movie-branding\/#Lovable_Europe\" >Lovable Europe<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"In_the_Footsteps_of_Umberto_Eco\"><\/span>In the Footsteps of Umberto Eco<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The late Umberto Eco loved the European idea. The Italian novelist and semiotician, however, also saw a problem. The European Union is losing the battle of emotions, as illustrated by British citizens\u2019 choice to leave the European polity altogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite significant budgets allocated to mass communications, the EU acronym summons little sentiment in the hearts of most Europeans. Eco proposed to correct this situation. In a 2013 piece in La Repubblica\u2019s L\u2019Espresso, he put forward a plan to engineer the EU\u2019s popular appeal by inventing a European hero, <em>un Asterix Europeo<\/em>. The suggestion received surprisingly little attention at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eco understood that the future of the European polity is directly tied to emotionally charged narratives. The last two decades of European politics showed time and again the reluctance of member-states to share each other\u2019s burdens in the face of crisis: be it the European debt and monetary crisis, the refugee crisis, or the current crisis of Russian aggression near EU\u2019s eastern borders. That\u2019s because solidarity can\u2019t function without the super-emotions that work through people\u2019s hearts, nerves, and guts. None of the instrumental solutions to European challenges will be sustainable if not grounded in effective identity politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A world-class expert in constructing popular narratives and heroes, Umberto Eco believed that the same creative tools could be applied to the question of European identity. He proposed that we revisit European history and discover \u2019a European Asterix\u2019, a hero of whom to speak to the Europeans of tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Time_is_Ripe_for_a_Jean_Monnet_Movie\"><\/span>Time is Ripe for a Jean Monnet Movie<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#EUArchives \u2013 Founding fathers of the European Union: Jean Monnet\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VRES0K_6rHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The stakes are high. The European project will need to be fiercely defended both internally from right-wing populists and externally from Russia\u2019s war machine, unchecked migration, and other geopolitical threats. Leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron are right to push for bold objectives like the EU\u2019s strategic autonomy, the European army, and joint migration management. But projects like that require popular support, which will not come without love for \u2018Brand Europe\u2019. That\u2019s why Europe needs a good story now more than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I want to propose is an idea for a motion picture. It would tell the story of the EU\u2019s defining hero, Jean Monnet (1888-1979), <a href=\"https:\/\/european-union.europa.eu\/principles-countries-history\/history-eu\/eu-pioneers\/jean-monnet_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a master architect of Europe\u2019s postwar reinvention<\/a>, an avid advocate of European military integration, and a French cognac merchant who came to be known as the founding father of the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it would have to be a very different kind of story. A good narrative for Europe would be about something other than the rights and wrongs of politics. The story would rather give people something to talk about at the dinner table, associating the European idea with pure excitement. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Problem_with_Brand_EU\"><\/span>The Problem with Brand EU<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The quest for the European \u2018we-feeling\u2019 is an old one. The EU institutions have been involved in this quest, at least since the 1970s, when the EU\u2019s cultural policy commenced. Today, the EU\u2019s efforts in this sphere are carefully monitored by the Eurosceptic press. For example, in the years leading up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/2016\/07\/brexit-effect-eu-brand\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2625\">Brexit<\/a>, the pro-Brexit press was ringing the propaganda bells in reference to the EU\u2019s multi-billion \u2019ad budget\u2019 that was allegedly larger than Coca-Cola\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the fears of the ever-vigilant Eurosceptics, EU communication currently offers little that can inspire spontaneous enthusiasm. That is why both branding experts and political scientists are critical of the European Union as a brand: not because the Union wants to be a brand, but because the branding strategy is outdated and out of touch with the contemporary communication space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This space is characterized by the sheer plurality of mass, social, and blog media, which can choose to transmit, ignore, challenge, or modify the symbols and narratives launched from Brussels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s more, as we have learned from the success stories of entertainment and marketing industries, people are much more enthusiastic when engaged as thrill-thirsty consumers rather than fact-seeking citizens. Facts, moral values, and political programs can be interesting, but what truly captivates people are fantasies, heroes, eccentricities, and creative deconstructions of ethical imperatives and conventions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any commercial or political project will ignore this rule at its own peril if what is targeted is the popular psyche. With this in mind, I wish to make a case for a very specific cultural project. Let us call it the <em>Jean Monnet Movie Project<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"thebr-posts-end-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"thebr-3432870460\"><div id=\"thebr-101560309\"><a class=\"advanced-image\" href=\"https:\/\/edu.thebrandingjournal.com\/brand-improvement-mini-course?utm_source=website&#038;utm_medium=banner&#038;utm_campaign=mini_course_articles&#038;utm_content=green\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" rel=\"noopener\">\r\n    <picture>\r\n        <source media=\"(max-width: 991px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mini-Course-Green-300x250-1.png\" type=\"image\/png\"\/>\r\n        <source media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mini-Course-Green-600x300-1.png\" type=\"image\/png\"\/>\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mini-Course-Green-600x300-1.png\" alt=\"mini-course image\"\/>\r\n    <\/picture>\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/div><\/div><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Fantastic_Life_of_Mr_Europe\"><\/span>The Fantastic Life of Mr. Europe<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jean_monnet_return_from_usa-1024x716.webp\" alt=\"Jean Monnet travelling, black and white picture\" class=\"wp-image-31121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jean_monnet_return_from_usa-1024x716.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jean_monnet_return_from_usa-300x210.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jean_monnet_return_from_usa-768x537.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jean_monnet_return_from_usa-380x266.webp 380w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jean_monnet_return_from_usa-800x559.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jean_monnet_return_from_usa-760x531.webp 760w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jean_monnet_return_from_usa-600x419.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/jean_monnet_return_from_usa.webp 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/es\/exhibitions\/the-jean-monnet-house\/jean-monnet-a-founding-father-of-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Europeana<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A script for the Jean Monnet movie is yet to be written, but there are plenty of biographical episodes that are available for adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Silhouette of an Assassin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of the story told by Fernand Javel, Monnet\u2019s chauffeur in Algeria during WWII. Monnet traveled to Algeria to work alongside Charles de Gaulle for the Free French Forces. It was the spring of 1943, and both Monnet and Javel received warnings that the French monarchists were out to assassinate Monnet. In what is a colorful description of the event, Javel remembers traveling the lonely Algerian roads in the middle of the night when he suddenly noticed a man lying across the road: \u201cInstead of stopping I accelerated as fast as I could and zig-zagged past him&#8230; Once the car had gone by, Monnet looked back and saw the silhouette stand up\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mad Marriage<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider Jean Monnet\u2019s love life and the hardships he had to go through in the 1930s to marry his beloved Silvia de Bondini, an Italian painter. Silvia was married to Francesco Giannini, an Italian diplomat who was Monnet\u2019s employee. Francesco was reluctant to grant Silvia a divorce, and without the husband\u2019s approval, the couple was out of options in the face of Italian and French legal settings of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Monnet\u2019s \u2018can do\u2019 attitude saves the day as he comes up with the most unconventional of plans. An entrepreneur, an anti-communist, and a lover of America to his very core, Monnet takes Silvia to communist Moscow (of all places), where it was possible to divorce and remarry at once. The plan works &#8211; the couple has a wedding before leaving the USSR forever. EU\u2019s founding father would later describe his marriage as \u201cthe most beautiful operation of his career\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, this may not be the behavior of saintly moral purity, but it shows determination, fight, and creativity, which are the things that famous heroes are made of. The point is precisely to move beyond the political black and white and discover humanity in all of its colors. Besides, would not most Europeans appreciate an EU that is a little less innocent and a little gutsier?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bonjour, mademoiselle Bardot<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or think of some accidental chats that Monnet might have had with Brigitte Bardot when the two neighbored each other in Houjarray, some 80 kilometers outside of Paris. Think of the Frenchman\u2019s friendship with John F. Kennedy, who credited Monnet for moving Europe \u201ccloser to unity in less than twenty years than it had done before in a thousand\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Great Gatsby<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But make sure to contrast such praise with allegations of insidious business ventures. For instance, historians argue that one of Monnet\u2019s roles in Canada as an eighteen-year-old representative of the \u2018Cognac Monnet\u2019 brand was to target the market of local Indians even though selling \u2018firewater\u2019 to Indians was prohibited by law at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of murky episodes like that, one of his biographers, Frederic J. Fransen, saw \u2018something of a Great Gatsby in him\u2019. In fact, in the 1930s Monnet became (briefly) a millionaire, a high point of his career as an international banker that took him as far as China, where he worked between 1934 and 1936. Not much is known about his day-to-day routines in the sinful streets of Shanghai, or the \u2018Paris of the East\u2019 as the booming city was called in the 1930s. But many stories of adventure and suspense await to be told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Burgers and Westerns<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of Monnet\u2019s initial and later reactions when he failed to secure a spot on the first and final voyage of the <em>Titanic<\/em>. Or imagine him demanding an American burger in a classy Parisian restaurant. Rubbing shoulders with Europe\u2019s political and financial elites, Monnet was unusual in his passion for American pop culture, especially Westerns and fast food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Max Kohnstamm, a Dutch diplomat, once recalled having to anticipate Monnet going to classy restaurants so that he could prevent Monnet\u2019s grotesque scene of demanding the cook to make them burgers. As for Westerns, it is not so difficult to imagine the young Monnet himself having something of a wild West experience in North America, horseback riding to wherever his liquor interests would take him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cognac Adventures<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family\u2019s cognac business gave Jean Monnet a unique opportunity to become a world-touring adventurer from a very young age. And he took it, leaving Cognac for London when he was merely sixteen years old. \u201cWhy take the roundabout of studying law when I could go to the school of life and see the world?\u201d (<em>Memoirs<\/em>). And so he did, traveling to the ends of the world to develop a sales network for the up-and-coming Cognac Monnet brand (which you can still buy today!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before he was twenty-five, Monnet had already traveled extensively through Canada, Egypt, Greece, Sweden, and other countries, constantly breaking his back to outmaneuver the leading cognac brands of the day, Hennessy and Martel, as well as the emerging competition from whisky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"thebr-posts-middle-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"thebr-2312967101\"><div id=\"thebr-513655360\"><a class=\"advanced-image\" href=\"https:\/\/edu.thebrandingjournal.com\/ultimate-brand-building-system-marketers?utm_source=website&#038;utm_medium=banner&#038;utm_campaign=course_articles&#038;utm_content=blue_arrow\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" rel=\"noopener\">\r\n    <picture>\r\n        <source media=\"(max-width: 991px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TBJ-Brand-Building-System-Blue-Arrow-300x250-1.gif\" type=\"image\"\/>\r\n        <source media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TBJ-Brand-Building-System-Blue-Arrow-600-x-300.gif\" type=\"image\"\/>\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TBJ-Brand-Building-System-Blue-Arrow-600-x-300.gif\" alt=\"Course image\"\/>\r\n    <\/picture>\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/div><\/div><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lovable_Europe\"><\/span>Lovable Europe<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Europe-Flags.png\" alt=\"Image of people holding european flags\" class=\"wp-image-31130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Europe-Flags.png 800w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Europe-Flags-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Europe-Flags-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Europe-Flags-380x238.png 380w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Europe-Flags-760x475.png 760w, https:\/\/www.thebrandingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Europe-Flags-600x375.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Exciting episodes were plentiful in the man\u2019s life. Crucially, it is only in the context of these adventures and colorful episodes that Monnet\u2019s European vocation could be communicated in a captivating fashion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monnet\u2019s crowning achievement was to set in train, in the 1950s, the European integration process with the Schumann Plan and the European Coal and Steel Community. He effectively founded what is known today as the European Union. But this epoch-making episode should not be overstressed in the film\u2019s narrative. In fact, Monnet\u2019s pivotal role in the origins of the EU should probably be a side story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is noteworthy that official EU attempts to popularize the Jean Monnet story have been unsuccessful to date. That\u2019s because the Jean Monnet of official EU booklets, commissioner speeches, and museum exhibitions is an uninspiring, one-dimensional \u2018do-gooder\u2019 European saint in a boring suit, completely lacking in charm, with nothing else on his mind but Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dull characters like that do not resonate with audiences spoiled by the golden age of TV series. Fortunately, we have just met a different Jean Monnet, a real European Asterix whose story is full of adventures, moral dilemmas, eccentricities, and jaw-dropping moments. That\u2019s the stuff powerful brands are made of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Branding works in mysterious ways. A leather jacket itself may have little to do with a sense of mystery, adventure, and power, but a marketer can devise a story in which a tough, jacket-wearing detective solves a case in a deserted factory. Mystery, adventure, and power suddenly become integral features of the jacket, much like the leather texture is its integral feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why the link between this story (Monnet\u2019s life) and the ideal promoted (the European Union) doesn\u2019t have to be direct. There is no need to force the product onto consumers. There is no need to educate Europeans on how good the EU is for them. Rather, we should dissociate the story from the political ideal only to re-associate them indirectly, by investing the narrative with meanings, affects, and passions that draw popular attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jean Monnet Movie might be one way to start if we consider boosting enthusiasm for the European project. As Umberto Eco pointed out, most people love their heroes. He showed us a pathway towards creating a European tale. Now would be the perfect time to travel along it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer cnvs-block-core-spacer-1697033517619\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details cnvs-block-core-details-1697033257649 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Credits<\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cover Image: Photo by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@henri0019?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Henri Lajarrige Lombard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union faces several existential challenges. It\u2019s game time for the most successful \u2014 yet still fragile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":31134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"The EU faces existential challenges. 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