Çok Uluslu Marka Reklamlarının Küyerelleşme Bağlamında Göstergebilimsel Analizi

Abstract

With globalization, in order for brands to be successful in international markets, the products or services offered must be produced and marketed by taking into account the cultural elements of that country or market. While globalization was a new paradigm in international trade until recently, today, from a branding perspective, it has lost its initial effectiveness with the fact that consumers no longer feel affinity with the standardized products of global brands. Thus, the effect of local features emerged, and with it a new term, glocalization, which encompasses the global and the local, emerged. Glocalization encourages brands to “think globally and act locally” and does this by localizing certain elements of that brand to suit a particular country, using the global brand. Today, brands operating in different cultures apply to the glocal advertising strategy. The concept of glocalization, which is formed by the integration of globalization and localization and the combination of the words, has been widely used recently. In this study, it is analyzed how multinational brand advertisements use glocalization as a strategy. In this direction, advertisements of Lays, Sensodyne, Algida and Vodafone brands are analyzed by semiotic analysis method. Analysis results show that brands use glocal advertising methods specific to Türkiye.