Honors College Theses

Publication Date

11-19-2018

Major

Marketing (BBA)

Document Type and Release Option

Thesis (open access)

Faculty Mentor

Dr. Lindsay Larson

Abstract

Having an online presence for a retail store has transitioned from serving as simply a new avenue through which a profit can be made, to a tool that can be harnessed to express a brand’s personality. So how do luxury brands manage to maintain a high-end, exclusive status on the highly available landscape of the internet? The intention of this research is to identify whether luxury brands are currently taking advantage of differential web atmospherics cues, in a way that significantly sets them apart from non-luxury brand websites. To do this, we measured elements including screen space, reduction of elements, logo placement, etc. Results suggest that there are several visual and textual elements which may be used to connote luxury branding online.

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