Case of Study

Here it is another successful case of study produced by my favorite ad agency RENERAGE MARKETING. In previous posts we have mentioned the HSBC, hopefully you enjoy this piece of work.
You're walking around Manhattan during the 2003 US Open, wondering what was happening in the afternoon matches. Just then you spot an umpire's chair right in front of Grand Central Station, and hear a voice yell, "Agassi leads two sets to one." You smile. Someone runs over and hands you a Nike tennis ball. You smile again.
DEFINE THE CHALLENGE
To drive traffic to and increase sales at Niketown's Manhattan location, and create a buzz around Nike Tennis during the 2003 US Open.
CAPTURE THEIR ATTENTION
To showcase Nike's commitment to tennis, we unleashed teams of "Nike Tennis Players" to stage drills in crosswalks, do play-by-play of Open matches, and assist New Yorkers with opening hotel doors, hailing cabs and more.
Since it's not every day you see ball boys running across 42nd Street, the players drew a crowd. And lucky for these crowds, the players handed out Nike tennis balls and collateral that drove those crowds to Niketown for a chance to open a locker full of Nike Tennis gear. Once any member of a crowd went to Niketown, they had the opportunity to take a picture holding the U.S Open "cup" in front of a stadium graphic - and receive a refrigerator magnet of the photo as a keepsake.
This is exactly a clear example of how creative people work "Think outside of the box"

do you want go through ?

Most of the times i invest my time searching for new things related with visual arts but sometimes its worth to post things that were pioneers in the duty-task. This billboard apart was really important when was developed. Take in consideration the time when was done roughly 5 years and Grey Worldwide knew how to made the thing done. To begin with, the execution is marvelous, the idea catch exactly what they are trying to communicate.
Clever at first glance, but isn't lube more about the great sexual experience? Will women really like this? Just tossing it out for discussion

Piet Mondrian

The 20th century is distinguished in art history for one invention above all: abstraction. The Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a pioneer in this development. His reputation rests on about 250 abstract paintings dating from 1917 to 1944, a modest number for over 25 years of work. Each painting was worked and reworked, built layer by layer toward an equilibrium of form, color, and surface.
Mondrian named his style "neoplasticism." That is how he translated his own Dutch phrase nieuwe beelding, which also means "new form" or "new image." The style was based, he explained, on an absolute harmony of straight lines and pure colors underlying the visible world.By the end of 1920 he had invented neoplasticism, in which pure primary colors and black lines came together in a unity that was neither random nor systematic but intuitive. Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red shows Mondrian's typical balancing of large areas of "non-color" against smaller accents of color, producing a structure in which restless sliding is resolved in a stable whole.Space is no longer a background for depicted objects; instead, the entire painting is an object of its own. Mondrian painted on a tabletop, not an easel, and built his own frames out of narrow strips of wood set back slightly from the canvas surface "to bring the painting forward from the frame... to a more real existence," as he put it.

NOLITA

In this blog we have discussed some of the Oliveiro Toscani's campaigns like Benneton and the italian fashion brand. He now presents us another piece of work getting a powerful insightThe ad had start of Milan's fashion week, and was featured in a two-page center spread in the daily La Repubblica and other newspapers as well as on billboards around the country.
Toscani, best known for provocative ads for the Benetton clothing company featuring death row inmates and people dying of AIDS, was commissioned to shoot the ad by Flash&Partners, which puts out the fashion label Nolita.
"Toscani literally stripped his subject, to show everyone through this nude body the reality of this illness, which in the majority of cases is caused by stereotypes caused by the fashion world," Nolita said in a statement on its Web site.
The fashion industry has been in the spotlight about anorexia since the 2006 death of a 21-year-old Brazilian model who died from the eating disorder.
A fashion manifesto initiated by the Italian government and signed last year by representatives of the Italian fashion chamber called for regulations on age and weight for models participating in the myriad of fashion events held in this country year round.The subject of the Toscani photo, a 27-year-old French woman named Isabelle Caro, says on her blog that she is a comedian, and has suffered from anorexia since she was 13 because of a difficult childhood. She says she wants to get better because she loves life.Giorgio Armani, who presented his Spring-Summer 2008 show Monday, said the campaign - while using a "harsh and crude" image - was "correct, opportune," ANSA said.
There is no doubt Toscani is a master in advertising, the creations of this photographer are so insightful with a deeper connection with the audience like no one else

TAPE

We are starting the week and i wanted to come up with something new for the blog. This time im going to present you some really cool designers from my natal city (Mexico Shitty) . This guys are called Pulque & Revilox and own a very interesting blog, something i have never seen to be honestly. Basically the idea is just set up a design database where normal users can come to this blog and create a cool design in a TAPE, yes im not kidding you! . Apparently the process of designing your own tape seems pretty easy , you just have to select a certain image from the web and adapt it to the frame tape. The products( tapes) are not for lucrative purposes , its just for fun which i think its great.
You know when you find yourself surfing in the net sometimes you find things that are really worth it and this blog(TAPE) its one of those things!


As usual, you know i always post interesting things that can be applied to marketing. Of course this kind of design for tapes can be use for some alternative marketing. The sad thing is that the tape are not in the market anymore , or at least there is just a few people that still buy this thing. However this can be applied for another things related with music, like cds in order to promote a brand or a band. For example , we all know music industry is trying to reach new ways of promoting and selling their products like place bands in corn flakes or creating new sales channels in internet( ITunes, Blogs, Amazon) . But , i think this design can be very useful for marketers nowadays , its like another way to get a deeper impact or at least something different.

Retro shirts!

Here it is the next brand new shirt for cobrasnake. In past posts , i have showed to you some of his very first tshirts. Cobra Snake its a website in charge of take pics in hype parties where djs come and play . Some of the pics of this website cover events for I AM ROBOT, JUSTICE, DAFT PUNK and so many personalities in the underground movement. For another part, they develop some designs for tshirts, a lot of people is trying to get this t shirts for his unique design and funny images. I think the t shirts are so amazing, i like the drawings on it like old fashion with a different approach.
If you want to get some of this pics www.soldout. com its the to place to get them.

Old fashion bike

A brand is a product, service, or concept that is publicly distinguished from other products, services, or concepts so that it can be easily communicated and usually marketed. A brand name is the name of the distinctive product, service, or concept. Branding is the process of creating and disseminating the brand name. Branding can be applied to the entire corporate identity as well as to individual . In terms of marketing , branding is all the effort you make to get a certain appeal of your brand in consumers mind. The action embrace several components like creative design, logotype and colors.
May be you are asking your self what does branding is related with Paul Frank, well this brand has an excellent branding by his appearance , logotype and cool association with the monkey. In my personal opinion , i think for a brand its mandatory to contain a cool branding, it makes the consumers wish your brand , wish that hype that everyone is talking about.
I was surfing through internet and i stop by in paul frank's website to see what they have there, for my surprise i saw this cool bicycle and i just cant wait to talk about it here. We all love bicycles, its good way to make some exercise and more with a good bicycle who makes u look good,it seems that the bicycle its like from the 60's .I think the price is pretty available for everyone. They are around 400 dollars.

PoP ArT

Is time for some art. The relevance the art into advertising is mandatory, millions of graphic designers are influenced in some many ways with arts. The visual statement is always going to be part of arts. As a lot of you folks im such a big fan of the movement of pop art. Roy Lichtenstein was the master of the stereotype, and the most sophisticated of the major Pop artists in terms of his analysis of visual convention and his ironic exploitation of past styles. The work for which he is now known was the product of a long apprenticeship.


Lichtenstein's development as a mature painter was marked by his propensity for working in successive series or thematic groups. The later groups tended to be interpretations and to some extent parodies of earlier Modernist styles - Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism. In the early 1980s Lichtenstein created sculptural maquettes constructed from flat shapes as three-dimensional graphic imitations of German Expressionist woodcuts. These, like his series of painted or sculpted brushstrokes of the 1980s, painstakingly created an ironic suggestion of spontaneity. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he returned to the use of Ben-Day dots in a new and refined application of his earlier style. Roy Lichtenstein died in September 1997. His paintings have marked some point in the pop art, so many artists in our century are very influenced by his work.

The Pop art culture is still connected very much to life in the Twenty First Century. Lichtenstein's work, as well as contemporaries such as Warhol hold relevance today and many of the messages portrayed can be directly linked to modern day life. An example of this continuing relevance is the use of Lichtenstein's and Warhol's images in U2's 1997, 1998 Pop Mart tour and an exibition in 2007

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/lichtenstein.html

BEST ALBUMS OF 2007

I know its a little bit early for this kind of things but i dont really care about it. Internet has brought too many possibilities to know different kind of music from al around the world. One of the core purposes of this blog is to show you good music , music that you will remember for a long time. Not the crappie things you listen in most of the normal radio stations and MTV. I know there is a lot of persons with different tastes and likes, but in my personal opinion since i was a little boy i always like to find different kind of music than the normal people.It's not the fact of being weird or alternative , the fact is just to listen groups that are good in terms of music, rhythm , instruments composition in order to create a good album .
Now im going to present what will everyone called as the best albums in the 2007 based in my criteria( i know a lot of people might be disagree or agree but i dont care). For people who is always reaching for music its quite difficult to select a chart of your favorite albums because of the amount of artist that you like. After one hour of selecting and dismissing some artists i came with the idea of doing two different charts of the best albums. The first chart will embrace indie music and the second one will be electronic or dance music. So here it is people, i would really like if some of you that might have discrepancies with the chart mention something.

TOP 10 INDIE MUSIC ALBUMS 2007

1.Artic Monkeys- Favorite worst nightmare
2.The Klaxons-Myths of the near future
3.Radiohead- In rainbows
4.LCD soundsystem- Sound of Silver
5.Arcade Fire-Neon Bible
6.The Rapture- Pieces of the people we love
7.Reverend and the makers-The state of the things
8.Silversun Pickups-Canvas
9.Cafe Tacvba-Si No
10.Air-Pocket Symphony



TOP 5 ELECTRONIC MUSIC ALBUMS 2007

1.Simian Mobile Disco-Attack decay sustain release
2.Justice- †
3.Midnight Juggernauts- Midnight Juggernauts Enhanced
4.MSTRKRFT- Work on you
5.Chromeo- She's in control

CALVIN KLEIN LIVE BILLBOARDS

There is a lot of places in the world where the concentration of people is remarking. Marketers take approach of this kind of places to integrate different media to conduct a message. Times Square is one of those places that has the ability to gather millions of tourists, citizens etc. The only problem to buy an space in this place is the the amazing transit of advertising that you cant even focus in one specifically , its almost impossible to stand out in the cacophony. Even though Calvin Klein knew that launching a normal campaign will going to be useless. However they developed this live billboards right in the middle . It was only live for one day this summer, it garnered media attention in 15 countries , 100,000 visitors to the campaign's microsite and 20,000 street team sample packs gone by mid-day and another 20,000 but day's end, netted three times normal sales for CK One at the nearby Macy's Herald Square location.

ART-VERTISING

STORKER PROJECT is a species propagation movement by STORKER seeking to incite select individuals from the public at large, perhaps you. This can be what is call "street installations" , the artists commit meetings or place several instruments around a certain area to transmit a core message. The purpose of this post is to show how advertising can be seen from the artistic point of view and still working effectively according the objectives. The implementation of art in advertising is an excellent way for create a good impression , the audience is taken from a different approach.
Guerilla advertising takes approach of all the factors previously mentioned, is a new ramification that agencies and clients are starting to seeking. Less budget, creative strategies deeper impact are some of the advantages of this new rebel way of doing marketing. This blog embrace and support all of the alternative ways to create marketing in an cost effective way. Reach for some ways to have a different impact that will give your organization a difference in the daily competition.
In my personal opinion i think an advertiser have to contain a little artist inside of the person because both can send perfectly a core message and remembering the brand in their minds from another perspective .




Mark Jenkins (b. 1970) is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using packing tape. His work has been featured in various newspapers and magazines including Time Out: New York, The Washington Post, The Independent, the book Hidden Track: How Visual Culture is Going Places, and on the street art blog Wooster Collective. He has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe and Brazil and is represented by Lazarides gallery in London. He maintains the website tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits. He was born in Fairfax, VA and currently lives in Washington DC.
Sometimes i like to post some things in this blog relevant to artistic things. The focus of all visual arts have to come together into a play in advertising. All of them can be embrace to work with some creative strategy in order to work together.

RETRO GLASSES

it seems that everything is going all the way around! I am not complaining about it, its just so impressive how trends in fashion, music, design are going backwards . I know there still a lot of fashion designers that create and innovate new things but in another hand the 90's are coming to stay a long time. To be completely honestly i am not disagree with this new trends in fashion, Who dont like 80's or 90's, i do! Thats certainty one of the main reason designers are catching up some 90's style.



In think these pair of sunglasses are great, i cant wait to have them. For another part i think designers most innovate with new and trendy designs that create a cut off in the fashion industry. Its ok to take some examples or references from the past but it will be better to take those examples and modify them in a way that will evolve as a innovative
Anyway , the important thing is that they are amazing and available in http://www.retrosuperfuture.com.
It seems that the classics wayfarer are kind of a normal ones now, try to flip your style adding some color on you. In my personal experience when i was about to bought a pair of sunglasses orange last year i was kind of afraid, you know like it will be a problem matching colors with your clothes and stuff but nahhhh who cares , you wearing a cool sunglasses dont give a @#$@#%#$

GUERILLA FOR DULCOLAX

For those persons who dont know what Delcolax is? Well is the no.1 laxative in the world( the top mind). They were trying to repositionate the brand in consumer's mind with an innovative strategy for advertising. One of the main challenges of Euro RSCG Germany was to increase the sales for this product because the german citizens were in a strict diet and they where trying to let them know that the product have helped millions of persons. The tube was placed strictly in front of drug stores in order to create a certain awareness in consumers when they were trying to go to the drug store.


I think its an excellent strategy for this kind of product. Also the execution is pretty funny and send a clear message to the audience to produce a raise in the awareness

AQUA-GLADE

Some people say that an image worth more than thousand words.I really believe it!
When i saw this print ads a lot of things cross for my mind. I think one of the most challenges for advertisers is when they are trying to send a clear message for an unusual product. For an ad agency side you know aqua-glide is a lubricant , you know what is the function of it, you know what is the purpose of using it, what you (most of the times) dont know is how to send a clear message that recall some attributes of the product in order to increase sales volume. I think in this case this ad agency showed who a good idea has to be exploded. Of course , it might be some people that would say this print ad is disgusting , but i dont see how you can relate this product to another thing and still sending the attribute of what will do.

Judge by your own, i know you people like this kind of things and thats why i just have the pleasure to show it to you.

MARKETING VS REALITY

TACO BELL NACHOS





BEEF CHEDAR

MITSUBISHI PAJERO

So you want a get a hot truck and the first thing you do , is to go to the car agency. Imagine that you go to mitsubishi dealer and you find a truck PAJERO dirty as hell. Impressing, huh?
This strategy was developed in India exclusive for Mitsubishi agencies. Obviously they know that the main target are men and they will be shocked at the moment of seeing the truck. The strategy take approach of the main attribute of the truck. The message clearly is" adventure, risk and emotion"

DIESEL HUMAN AFTER ALL

Personally im such a huge fan of fashion advertising but specially with diesel campaigns. I think they are just amazing , the sense of the themes and topics are just too shocking. It seems that the last campaign of diesel " Global warming ready" gave a lot of word of mouth, it creates such a particular controversy in the net. However, they are using the same strategy for this new one in a more futuristic way. This campaign is totally out of this world in-terms of budget and idea. The art is just amazing and the positioning is something we have never view.

The campaign brought me two questions: Wouldn't be amazing to use some kind of robots instead of humans? Do they are trying to say that diesel brand is the futuristic trend for fashion?
Anyway here it is the some prints for "Human After all"

So this is what you call a fashion show????????

So you are representing a major brand or a luxury brand and you are trying to make a fashion show that will blow the mind of your clients...... Now you have a perfect option because Villa Eugenie productions will certainly make a huge event that knock your self off. This organization is based in Brussels but operates in all major fashion and luxury centers and has a permanent office also in Miami and its not only involve to make creative fashion shows ,but staging major events for luxury business to another lever. They type of customers they have are: Chanel, Dries Van Noten, Miu Miu, Maison Martin Margiela, Lanvin, Hermès, Hugo Bosss, Sonia Rykiel, Olivier Strelli, and the Adidas-backed Y-3.

CITY WITHOUT ADVERTISING

in 2007 , the main important city in Brazil decided to get a critical change in terms of advertising. São Paulo, became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a radical. São Paulo’s “Lei Cidade Limpa” or Clean City Law was an unexpected success, owing largely to the singular determination of the city’s conservative mayor, Gilberto Kassab.
The law came into action in order to fight against pollution water, sound and visual effect. Since this action, all of the billboards ,visual screens and advertising in bus were taken.
This is obviously not a regular law and the impact that might hit the population will be shocking. i wouldn't imagine myself living in a city with no outdoor advertising. Of course this law will force ad agencies to create or discover new channels to send their messages. Let's see how this law will work for one of the largest countries in the world.

IN AN ABSOLUT WORLD

In one of the last post , i showed to you one part of these controversial ads for absolute.I am really into them, the creative theme is absolutely amazing. Some people are really disagree with this new campaign , but for another part a lot of people are loving them. I think the agency its trying to repositionate the brand with antoher very clever topic in mind's consumers......

The hire-BMW undercover marketing

In 2000, after doing some research, BMW decided to find a new way to advertise their cars for the sake of advertising. They determined that their customers were, on average, middle-aged married males making $150K per year. They also determined that a majority of their customers chose what kind of a car they wanted to buy only after using the Internet. As a result of this, Jim McDowell, BMW's North American VP of marketing, came up with the idea to create a fast-paced, high-class, ultra-glossy way of showcasing their automobiles. The idea was to create a series of short films with a central, recurring character who drove a BMW and feature them on the Internet.
The movies would not be cheaply produced nor would they feel like an extended, overpriced commercial. To show that they meant business, BMW turned to Fallon Worldwide, their high-class international ad agency. Fallon, in return, hired high-priced Hollywood talent. British actor Clive Owen would star as the main character
Here are some of the best videos for this excellent marketing undercover strategy.

This one is directed by Guy Ritchie( one of the most recognized filmmakers in the world) and its interacting with his wife, that happens to be Madonna. Its a pretty funny short film. Of course BMW told the filmmakers to highlight one attribute of the car . I think Ritchie did a pretty good job showing this speed-moves of the car.




Since "Amores Perros" the first long film of Alejandro Gonsalez Iñarritu, he win a lot of popularity in the film industry. BMW realized that , and that's why they chose this filmmaker to develop a short film for them. . This one , is way different than the other one. So you can start to realize that all of the short films for "The Hire" are pretty different . Some of them are emotional as well.




If you are more interested of these short films .You can check all of them at You tube. There are 9 of them and its pretty worth it to see them .I think its a good opportunity to see something different and entertaining.

RADIOHEAD

This is a memorable post because one of my best friend from Vancouver , Canada wrote this thing for the blog. I think its a pretty interesting topic with a polemic impact in the e-promotion nowadays

So did you hear about the new Radiohead album? Yeah? Shit. So maybe I’m a little late. Ok, well, have you heard about how Radiohead have decided to issue the album solely from their website, with a price of whatever you, the consumer, wants to pay. Yeah? Well, I heard that too. About five thousand times. Read a review of ‘In Rainbows,’ which is the name of the new Radiohead album if you’re a Martian, and you wade through paragraph after paragraph of bullshit intellectuals adding their unasked for opinion on Radiohead’s selling strategy. When I asked for a review.
Now I’m in the enjoyable spot of writing for a marketing website, and I want to review the album instead to put all those inept reviewers in their place. I’ll compromise, and do it backwards, and make a review you’ll likely want to skip, and then have all my genius marketing observations at the end. Sound fun?




Radiohead are genius’s, they’re godlike, they figured out the theory of relativity, they were part of the original cast of ‘Gone With the Wind.’ They’re supposedly the modern Beatles, Time magazine believes that two of their CD’s are the most important of their decades, and Q magazine ranks ‘OK Computer’ the best CD of all time. Personally, I like them. They can hop from genre to genre, instrument to instrument, and everything flows, everything is cohesive. To me, the trick about Radiohead is that they do a bit of everything well. Give the Brit Pop junkies their falsetto on “The Bends,” the guitar freaks their solos on “OK Computer,” the electronica experimentalists their new frontiers with “Kid A” and “Amnesiac” and people who love the gray area in between all these extremes “Hail to the Thief.” When friends ask me to show them music, there’s always a suitably appropriate Radiohead song.
This makes actually critiquing a Radiohead album rather hard, because some of the songs that I don’t particularly like, might be the exact songs that some fans are looking for. However, being that I have a finite word count to this review, I’ll give a try for a critique. ‘In Rainbows’ is good, that’s something I think every fan will agree on. I think it is the type of album every type of fan can appreciate, and while it might not be their favorite, it should be second ahead of those other facets of Radiohead they are not such fans of. ‘Video Tape’ is a song to walk through a rain storm with, ‘15 Step’ should be your alarm clock, ‘Nude’ is something you play in the background while having a romantic dinner with your girl friend, and ‘Reckoner’ is gorgeous, the soundtrack to a bitter sweet day, the music that you hear walking past a church and makes you want to go Lime Wire hymns.

And my unnatural reference to Lime Wire is the perfect way to have a natural segue into marketing, since, as I’m sure you know, ‘In Rainbows’ needs no Lime Wiring, its free already.
Well, Radiohead pulled off a marketing coup. ‘In Rainbows’ was referenced everywhere: CNN, BBC, Time, local newspapers, local news shows, in interviews with Hillary Clinton. It fulfilled the task of some of the best ads without spending a single dollar: it was on the tip of everyone’s tongue, and they were curious about the product.
There is a dilemma of course. When I think of the point of marketing, I think of dollar signs, and while Radiohead has been able to make a tidy chunk of money, it’s doubtful this method is sustainable. Why was this record such a big deal: because it was a novelty, a product that asks your conscience, in addition to providing a service.
An analogy of why this would not function for products en masse, is the electric signs that measure the speed of your car. The first time you see one, and you realize how fast you are going, you think about it. Having that sign in front of you, telling you the immorality you are committing, it is inescapable. However, the second time you go past the electronic speed measurer, and you realize that there is no punishment for your speed, the moralistic questions would have already been pondered and you would have no incentive to slow down. Between a service for free, and a service for money, how can money compete, and to have a product attempt to morally seduce you with every purchase will eventually deaden your moral sense.
Any band that was to follow Radiohead in this scheme would fail, I feel. The success of ‘In Rainbows’ is largely due to the huge publicity, and the publicity was due to the novelty and the novelty cannot be recreated. Worse, anyone to follow this format would be labeled copycats, and the souls of the consumer would be turned against the band, and when a band is depending on a persons moralistic approximation of a bands worth, they want the consumer as happy as possible.
What this promotion did do, which in fact might have been its point, was to ask the excellent question of where does the music industry go from here. It’s a hard question, and Radiohead has to be given high praise for showing that alternative ways exist, even if they did not discover a true alternative.

Barrett Nash

WRONG JOB?

A survey realized by ACNielses reveals that 60 % of the people end up working in another thing they wouldnt want it. This is how destiny is, fellas. Monster is the world leading network in search jobs all over the globe. Whether you're thinking about a new job, new career, a new city or a new direction... Monster helps you explore the possibilities and find the opportunities that are right for you.
Check what they did. The copy is getting the wrong job? So , they put persons with certains professions as doctors, hockey players and transit drivers doing their jobs in places that dont correspond . This campaign was developed in the streets of China. As u can see , you dont need a lot of monye to make a good campaign. The idea clearly specify what the campaign is about.
There is a lot of new way to conduct your campaing not only the conventials. More and more advertiser are seeing that the street is a new way to attack consumers and this is a total example of it. Think outside of the box

Hot Tshirts

It seems France is striking the world not only in music , also in terms of fashion. Everyone is looking for some justice t shirts for their amazing and cool design . Now im gonna present you antoher brands . They are selled in this webpage called
http://wesoldout.com/, which is incoorporated to a french store COLETTE. This store is in the middle of Paris, has the hottest things in street wear. Its pretty good but also super expensive. So if u want to check it out , be my guest!!!!!
www.colette.fr/




These last tshirts contained a particular design.I really like them , its like old fashion full of all colours. They were made by a website called www.cobrasnake.com that show photos of hypster and hot parties. They also make cool stickers





These last ones are a brand called SIX-PACK. As you can see the design is again like old fashion with urban features

RAPALA BILLBOARD IN FINLAND

How could a teaser would work effectively?
For those persons who dont know what a "teaser" is , well i will explain it to you. Teaser is a strategy used in advertising, commonly at the beginning of the campaign. It creates a moment uncertainty with audience , creating many questions as possible of the purpose of the campaign. Nothing is telled to the audience so , the audience will hooked up with your campaing.
Well in this case im going to present you a billboard that used kind of a teaser.

Rapala is lure organization based in Finland. The main target is the fishersman.
The billaboard was placed in Finland orginally. The idea was divided in 3 sections. At the beginning the billboard was only showing the fish with the lure on it. Then, the second part was to place a certain number of cats on the billboard . Making the allusion to the audience that the cats were trying to eat or get the fish .As the passing time, more cats were appearing in the billboard until the final section.
I think is an excellent idea. I always said that putting advertising in a physicial way is a new way to advertise a product. In this case, the ad agency used both, but the physical figures(cats) are part of a great strategy.

GUERILLA FOR REXONA IN VIETNAM

This is a clear example of how a simple idea with an strong message can work perfectly for your target





Excellent poster for Rexona in Vietnam. The intellectual authors of this creative idea was LOWE.
This idea its pretty simple with a huge impact. The poster is placed in different walls. It looks like its about to fall down.But when someone come to the poster and try to put it in the formal way , get a lovely surprise.
Again, as some of last post in this blog, the trend is not create normal advertising, the trend is to stipulate some interaction with the audience . Or interaction without didnt see it coming. Take them by surprise and will get a brand placement in ther heads and of course publicity with it.

BUY NOTHING TODAY

This November, environmentalists, social activists and concerned citizens in as many as 65 countries will hit the streets for a 24-hour consumer fast in celebration of the 15th annual Buy Nothing Day, a global cultural phenomenon that originated in Vancouver, Canada.

Featured in recent years by the likes of CNN, MSNBC, Wired, the BBC, USA Today, The Age and the CBC, the international event has been gaining mainstream momentum as the climate crisis drives average people to seek out greener alternatives to unrestrained consumption.

Timed to coincide with one of the busiest shopping days on the US retail calendar, as well as the unofficial start of the international holiday-shopping season, Buy Nothing Day has taken many shapes, from relaxed family outings, to free, non-commercial street parties, to politically charged public protests. Anyone can take part provided they spend a day without spending.

In past years, street activists have proven particularly imaginative in their celebrations, bringing zombie marches, credit-card cut-ups, and shopaholic clinics to malls and public squares in an effort to expose the environmental and social consequences of First World over-consumption.



Thus Adbusters magazine has managed to turn their annual “Buy Nothing Day” into a global phenomenon, currently celebrated in over 55 countries. The problem is that cutting back your spending, without cutting back your income does absolutely nothing to combat consumerism. Your total income gets spent, whether you like it or not. Either you spend it, or else you put it in the bank, who then loans it to someone else who will spend it. This is not an accident - total spending and total earnings in the economy always add up to the same amount, because your spending is someone else’s income, and your income is someone else’s spending. That’s because the economy is fundamentally a system of exchange. So the only way to make a dent in that is to withdraw from the economy completely, which means neither providing services nor consuming them. Yet somehow, an annual “Earn Nothing Day” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Another activities during this day include:

-Volunteers stand in a shopping mall with a pair of scissors and a sign offering a simple service: to put an end to extortionate interest rates and mounting debt with one considerate cut. Be careful though: in some first-world countries, carrying scissors in public can get you arrested as a "terrorist".

-The cheerful dead wander around malls, marveling at the blank, comatose expressions on the faces of shoppers. The zombies are happy to be among their own kind, but slightly contemptuous of those who have not yet begun to rot.

-The activity has the advantage of being most likely to piss off security personnel. You and nine of your closest friends silently drive your shopping carts around in a long, inexplicable conga line without ever actually buying anything.

KANYE WEST PROMOTING FENDI!

Rapper Kanye West, well known for his strong, blunt opinions and trend setting style as well as his unique music, has brought yet another shocker into the game. Known to promote anything from cars to fundraisers, his latest and greatest has got to be his support for Fendi. Using his head as a billboard, the Italian company paid West 10K to etch the designers logo into his haircut. Whether or not you see him as a sell out or a truly inspirational unique individual is up to you. But I can guarantee you that Fendi’s sales will more than likely see an increase because of the massive influence West has over today’s society, young and old.

So the question is : Does any famous person is now gonna sell his head to any advertising purpose? Do this can work with a normal people?

FACEBOOK ADS

Facebook has finally announced plans on how they will use their power to produce big money. As anticipated, the social network will implement a new ad revenue platform, called Facebook Ads, that will target the site’s 50 million members.

The company, estimated at $15 billion, will allow marketers to track what Facebook users are looking at, particularly what they are buying online. This information will allow advertisers to better tailor content to individual user interest, making the ads much more targeted.

Thought your “Favourite Books,” “Favourite Movies” and “Favourite TV Shows” on Facebook were just for your shear amusement? Not so much. It’s all part of a bigger marketing scheme to better target ads.

You’ve likely also added your gender, location, relationship status, work history, educational background and interests; likely you’ve added your age as well. You’ve helped make the research a whole lot easier for marketers.

“For the last hundred years, media has been pushed out to people, but now marketers are going to be part of the conversation,” said founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Forbes Magazine explained Facebook Ads will consist of “Social Ads,” “Targeting” and “Insights.”

“Social Ads are little ads that will be attached to news feeds. They will show up on the news feeds that users and their friends subscribe to. Advertisers can bid for the right to place their ads on the feeds used by people with the specific preferences that they want to reach,” Forbes explained.

Zuckerberg said 12 major companies have already signed on including Blockbuster, CBS, JPMorgan Chase, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Sony and Verizon