A Neat Piece of Brand Story Telling
When considering how to promote their insect spray, Baygon in Brazil took a fresh approach. What started as a great TVC campaign idea turned into a genuine guerrilla campaign, which when shot became a viral campaign. Sounds like great return on creative investment for this brand.
Posts Tagged ‘Viral-Marketing’
Working in the creative industry (in fact any industry for that matter) the one question that always seems to crop up at the start of any project is “what’s your budget?” Just once we’d love the client to say “hell, I don’t know – whatever it takes” but those clients and those budgets are few and far between. The ‘budget’ question is not without merit. If we know how much we have to spend (or don’t have to spend) then we can direct our creative juices towards the appropriate solutions. However, sometimes I wonder whether an awareness of budget restricts the creative brainstorm activity.
02.05.10
Goodbye Bush – Hello Remarkable Ad
Working for a creative brand agency I’ve always valued remarkable advertising and marketing. One particular stand-out for me was Veet’s “Goodbye Bush” ad that ran as a quarter page in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and Melbourne’s Herald Sun in January 2009. The ad was forwarded in a viral frenzy to family, friends (myself being one of them) and colleagues around the globe, by 3pm the same day had made it’s way back in the in-boxes of staff where the campaign had started – Euro RSCG‘s Sydney office.
So what was it that made this ad so remarkable it created a life of its own?
