Category: Great Advertising
October 12th, 2007

What I Like About A Well-Built Brand.

Twenty-six seconds before you see anything more than a tiny URL.
An incredible twenty-seven seconds before you see a logo.

No voiceover. No hard-sell.

Just some music and some Erin.

This, my friends, is what a well-built brand earns you:

  • You don’t need to shout your name, because consistent, engaging creative and smart media buying have ensured that everyone already knows who you are.
  • You don’t need to slap the sell in your audience’s face because everyone already knows what you do.
  • You can just breathe easy, and give your audience a little something extra to…like about you.

It takes work. It takes belief.  But, if you can see the proverbial forest for the proverbial trees, the payoff for building a brand the right way makes great business sense.

Bravo.

 

P.S. To be fair, the GEICO cavemen did this pretty well too, before they overplayed their furry hand.

October 4th, 2007

Sparking teeth…

Feeling international…click here

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October 4th, 2007

Smack That

I woke up this morning thinking…what’s going on in Cairo?

…looks as though they like to "Smack That" just like resident AE, Suzanne Smith.

Click to experience a day in the hallways of the Mortar…SMACK

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Client: Melody TV
Agency: Leo Burnett, Cairo

October 2nd, 2007

Dove does it again… with “Onslaught”


Dove follows up its smash hit "Evolution" with another frenetic look at womanhood.

Continuing to create a movement in the way woman and the rest of the world view beauty, Dove (and Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto) brings us "Onslaught."

It inspires women and shocks the senses. "Onslaught" encourages parents to speak to their children (as they are urged to do so with drug abuse and sex) in the hopes of shielding them from an overload of messages directed towards them of "you just aren’t good enough the way you are so buy this."

It’s the kind of branding that makes the heart pound and the mind race. For that, we thank you; thank you for creating a movement and making our hearts pound.

Watch the video here.

Onslaught

October 2nd, 2007

The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.

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…and Action Jeans. They’re like action slacks, except action slacks are not endorsed by Chuck Norris, which means they’re useless piles of unwearable crap. 

We’re just going to stand back in awe now.