Cutting through clutter and being noticed is job No.1 for any ad. Unfortunately, the marketing & advertising collectively wastes millions of dollars in production and media monies on run-of-the-mill ads which are simply ignored – not even disliked. I attempt to share a compilation of creative ads every week (and some commentary on industry issues occasionally). Here are some compelling creative ads I noticed week ending Oct 9, 2020: Flipkart Big Billion Days: double roles…
Every week I attempt to share a compilation of creative ads and occasionally some commentary on the business of advertising. This week’s compilation of clutter-breaking creative ads include the new brand identity from Intel (technically not an ad), a TVC from iPhone and more. Intel: new brand and visual identity Adverts created by brands are mostly ignored. That’s a horrible place to be – worse than being criticised as at least the work was noticed…
Every week, I attempt to compile a list of select creative ads with caught my attention. Getting noticed amidst clutter of media noise is a big deal – in fact the only metric that truly matters in advertising, as everything else is academic if the ad is just ignored. Here are a few which caught my eye the week ending May 9, 2020: Mint Mobile: New ManageMint Ryan Reynolds’ creative team does it again. The…
There’s a lot more to marketing than just advertising. Pricing, product portfolio strategy, segmentation, packaging, distribution and more as intrinsic to marketing as advertising. But thanks to media attention many equate marketing to be just about planning and implementing ad campaigns. As Mark Ritson points out in this brilliant article, says: Marketers have been gradually but consistently moved from product, price and distribution decisions by their companies because marketers at many companies are simply not…
There are hundreds of commercial messages vying for consumer attention everyday across traditional and new media. Only a handful are noticed. Here are a few creative ideas which caught my eye the week ending 12th May, 2017: Pampers, Tata Tea, Red Label and more. Some of them may have been released earlier this month but I thought they were worth sharing. 1. Pampers: #alittlethankyou In UK, Pampers recently launched launched its smallest ever nappy designed…
It has become customary for brands to make hoax announcements around April Fool’s Day. Brands in the tech domain seem to do it regularly – Google has been doing this for 16 years now. The hoax seems like a natural fit for news brands too as all it takes is just another seemingly plausible article. Consumer brands have joined the bandwagon too resulting in a surfeit of such hoaxes every year. Such efforts usually involve putting out…