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Let Me Tell You A Story...
In an excellent earlier blog post a spirited argument was put forward for the primacy of the image over the written word in advertising. However, I’d like to counter this with a, hopefully, spirited argument not only in favour of words, but lots of them. I’m talking about long copy.
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The Boy Who Could Fly
I was a weird kid. No, really.
When I was but a wee lad I believed a lot of things that most would deem inconceivable.
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Put Some Emotion In Your B2B Marketing Campaigns
Marketers in the B2B space strongly feel that emotions have no significance in their marketing campaigns. But what if we tell you that it’s only partially true?
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It’s Show Time, Folks!
Words or pictures, pictures or words? This is the age-old argument for what works best in advertising.
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Gorillas and Bulls
Once a brand knows what it stands for and knows what kind of relationship it has with its audience, its marketing can be more adventurous and take more risks. Cadbury’s ‘Drumming Gorilla’ ad is a prime example.
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Have Some Respect: The US Creative Revolution
In my last post, I argued that European advertising haled from artistic roots and was the better for it. But most commentators seem to agree that it was Bill Bernbach of Doyle Dale Bernbach who unleashed a new era of creativity in advertising in 1950s America.
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