Brand Storytelling: Integrated Marketing Communication for the Digital Media Landscape

This innovative new text introduces students to the power of storytelling and outlines a process for creating effective brand stories in an integrated advertising, PR, strategic marketing communications campaign that leverages the power of story within the reality of today’s digital first media landscape.

Keith A. Quesenberry is associate professor of marketing at Messiah University who has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Johns Hopkins University, Temple University, and West Virginia University. Quesenberry spent seventeen years in the marketing and advertising field as an associate creative director and copywriter at ad agencies such as BBDO and Arnold Worldwide, creating strategies and campaigns for startups to Fortune 500 brands including Delta Airlines, Exxon Mobil, PNC, Campbell’s and Hershey. Quesenberry is author of Social Media Strategy: Marketing, Public Relations and Advertising in the Consumer Revolution. Michael K. Coolsen is professor of marketing at Shippensburg University and an award-winning researcher and consultant. A social scientist and expert in data analysis, he has spent his career researching consumer behavior. Prior to his work in academia, he was a senior project director of marketing research at Arbor, Inc. (since merged into GfK Custom Research). His research has appeared and been published in Psychology Today, Harvard Business Review, Advertising Age, PRWeek, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, International Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications.