Celebrity and Personal Branding

Just read Tony Hawk’s Media Empire Grows With Help From Complex over at Adage. They talk quite a bit about the brands that celebrities are building. This leaves me wondering when saturation happens, when we have so many celebrity brands that we can’t see find anyone. We already have so much content, so much internet-based activity. Will we ever get to the point of “not being able to see the forest through the trees”?

My first thought is “no, we won’t”. We have tools for sifting through the massive forest of data. I guess the real challenge is how to differentiate yourself, fully connecting to an audience. The world of general is where the blizzard is. Specialization is where one can still be differentiated and engage deeply.