A cou­ple of months ago I posted a blog about the best way to make a big brand impres­sion and what level of bud­get spend gets you the desired out­come – an out­come that cre­ates a buzz and lot’s of it!

All clients want their brand mes­sag­ing to make a mas­sive impact, cre­ate lots of talk and increase sales far greater than that of the level of dol­lars invested. It’s the big, over­sized, cre­ative ideas that usu­ally cre­ate the most buzz but I also like to give credit to the smaller cre­ative ideas that cre­ate just as much buzz but on a smaller budget.

For exam­ple take a look at this fit­ness com­pany ad that ran on buses through­out Frank­furt – what a very well thought out, clever and cre­ative con­cept that every­one would’ve taken notice of and no doubt had a lit­tle fun in tak­ing the odd pic.

Another low bud­get ad that grabbed my atten­tion is this rip­per for a local karate school. It’s the sim­plest of ideas that really do cre­ate such an impact and I’m guess­ing that this could’ve been quite eas­ily thought of and imple­mented by the owner, a staff mem­ber or even student!

The fol­low­ing exam­ples of course all cre­ate enor­mous impact by deliv­er­ing a bold brand ges­ture due to their sheer size, cre­ative prowess and ideal posi­tion­ing in high traf­fic zones.


Time to switch to Swee­tex – this bill­board says it all!


A sim­ple head turner from Kinkos.


As the sky changes so does the mes­sage for Ben­jamin Moore Paints – we’ll match it.


One of my favourites – the clever usage of the sur­round­ing envi­ron­ment to really make a bold brand impression.

If you’d like to see your brand com­mu­ni­ca­tions cre­ate a buzz, make your com­pany more dol­lars and be the talk of the town through the way they con­nect with your mar­ket, why not give us a call.

Dominic Guthrie
Client Account Director

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4 Responses to “Big Ideas, not Big Budgets are the Best Way to Make a Big Brand Impression – Part 2”

  1. david says:

    More great exam­ples Dom of how small busi­nesses can make a big impact through big cre­ative ideas not big budgets.

  2. Hannah says:

    Ben­jamin Moore Paints clever adver­tis­ing is one of the best I have seen!.

    I’d love to see some of these big brand con­cepts imple­mented in our city.

  3. Dom says:

    Thanks for your com­ments Han­nah! I would also like to see some of these big brand con­cepts in Melbourne!

  4. Fun stuff!

    How­ever, imply­ing that these were all done on Small Bud­gets ( “…not Big Bud­gets”) is ques­tion­able. I’m sure plenty of small busi­nesses would still suf­fer sticker-shock when they learned the cost of exe­cut­ing some of these ideas.

    @artbrandplan

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