organizing interactive activities and encouraging
users to share.
6.3 Optimize Consumer Experience
Consumer experience plays an important role in
emotional marketing, and brands need to convey
emotions from the details of packaging design and
after-sales service, Jellycat has successfully improved
consumer experience with its unique packaging
design, personalized customization service and the
opening of offline flash stores, etc. Brands can
improve consumer experience by optimizing
packaging design, providing personalized
customization service and opening offline flash
stores. Brands can optimize packaging, provide
personalized service and offline activities to enhance
the emotional experience of consumers.
7 CONCLUSIONS
This study examines the Jellycat brand's emotional
marketing strategy and reveals the brand's success in
the context of the “healing economy.” Jellycat's
precise positioning has enabled it to expand its target
market from the traditional children's demographic to
adults, especially young people, and to capture the
“healing economy” dividend. Jellycat has
successfully captured the dividends of the “healing
economy”. Through the classic Bonnie Bunny,
creative fruit and vegetable series and
anthropomorphic image shaping, Jellycat has
successfully conveyed the emotional values of
warmth, healing and companionship to satisfy the
emotional needs of consumers, which not only
improves brand awareness and goodwill, but also
increases consumer loyalty. On this basis, Jellycat has
successfully built a participatory culture in social
media interaction, user-generated content (UGC) and
brand community building. Consumers are not only
brand consumers, but also brand evangelists and
creators. This emotional marketing strategy enhances
the emotional value of the brand while expanding its
impact.
The theoretical value of this study lies in
expanding the boundaries of the application of
emotional marketing theory, enriching the theoretical
system of emotional marketing through the carrier of
plush toys, and revealing the mechanism of emotional
marketing in branding by deconstructing Jellycat's
successful experience, especially in the context of
“healing economy” and consumer upgrading. Only by
grasping the demands of young consumers who are
eager to be noticed, understood and recognized, and
by providing them with a stage to express their
emotions and show themselves with an open,
innovative and empathetic attitude, can a brand truly
capture the hearts of young consumers. (Yan, 2024).
The practical value of this study is to provide a
framework for other brands to implement emotional
marketing that can be learned from, helping brands to
better satisfy consumers' emotional needs and
enhance brand competitiveness.
In the future, the study of emotional marketing
can be approached from the perspective of how to
keep the concept of “healing” and “companionship”
fresh in the minds of brands. It may be necessary to
monitor the dynamics of emotional marketing
strategies over time to see how they evolve over time
and in different environments to meet the changing
needs of the market and consumers. On this basis, it
is also possible to discuss the strategies and
effectiveness of emotional marketing in different
cultural contexts and analyze the role of cultural
differences in emotional resonance. In the European
and American markets, emotional marketing
strategies may need to be adjusted accordingly.
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