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Despite the negative effects on health, fast food restaurants remain in high demand in today’s era. Although the reasons for this high demand can be credited to lesser price, convenience, busy lives and changing societal structures from collectivism to individualism; but over time, these fast food restaurant chains have managed to pile up strong brand equity. And “strong” may possibly be an understatement. When people develop an association with a certain brand, they can ideally recall 2 things: brand name and it’s slogan. I already posted about the importance of brand slogans in one of my earlier posts: 40 Best Advertising Slogans of Modern Brands, but will quickly recap. As cheesy as this may sound, good brand slogans are like great spouses to brand names. Yep. That’s right. A good slogan is reflective and supportive of what the brand stands for. It will spell out the very gist of why…

Car wrap advertising is a type of ambient marketing that is used to generate visibility for brands at a relatively lower cost. It is an efficient and cost effective marketing tool not only used by bigger brands as support media, but also by small and medium sized businesses as part of their awareness driving arsenal. Vehicle advertising or Car wrap advertising, as the name suggests, is a way of marketing by using branded cars as an out-of-home media. Cars are wrapped with branded vinyl or car stickers carrying an advertising message, and they are then driven around in the selected area for maximum advertising exposure. Have you ever seen a car branded with advertising messages roaming in your city? Well, that’s what it is. It helps businesses to reach out to a maximum number of people living in a certain vicinity. It is also commonly referred to as carvertising. 1.…

Adidas, a company that started off with a core vision to support athletes, has always been true to its positioning that is highlighted by the old Adidas slogan, “Impossible is Nothing.” Adidas changed their slogan to “Adidas is All In” in 2013. The “Impossible is Nothing” slogan was one of the greatest slogans for a sports brand and is already part of my 40 Best Advertising Slogans of Modern Brands post that I wrote a couple of months back. A great brand or a company slogan lays out the complete brand philosophy in just one small phrase: it should explain what is the reason behind the very existence of a brand. Though overshadowed by Nike and other sports brands in recent decades, Adidas is a super brand that exists to support athletes in its core sense; and the Adidas slogan did justice to what the brand stands for. Before anyone…

Brands and agencies are both sharpening their saw to get more creative in the international market leaving a lot of advertising examples behind as inspiration for other advertisers around the world; thanks to technology for making everything so accessible. 2013 has been a great year so far. In fact it is not even halfway through and we’ve seen a burst of creative guerrilla advertising examples from a bunch of global advertisers already. So here I am posting some of the guerrilla campaigns I loved as advertising examples and inspiration. If you’re not aware. Guerrilla marketing or guerrilla advertising is a low-cost (not necessarily) advertising strategy. Marketers use it to reach and target an audience in an unconventional way. Unconventional? How’s that? Well, any marketing effort that is unusual (that was obvious I know). But to illustrate this further, flash mobs and graffiti can be referred to as good guerrilla advertising examples.…

For professionals working in broadcast networks and media agencies, answering a question like: “What is a rating point?” is fairly easy to answer. Why? Because that’s one of the most important KPIs that they have to deliver to reach client goals, report great numbers and… well make money of course! The rating point is one of the most important metrics that is on the tip of all the media planners and media buyers working in media agencies. Many media and content deals across various global markets are planned on targets based on the rating point. We can safely assume that the global multi-billion dollar broadcast and media industries revolve around the rating point metric. That was quite a dramatic start, but was well worth it because of the importance that this metric holds. In the most simplest terms, a rating point is a metric to measure the size…

After losing quite a bit of its reputation in the previous years, Johnson & Johnson has launched a brilliant campaign around caring and love. The video ad touches on human values, that universally bonds mankind together. The campaign is designed to inspire and empower caring in our busy lives today, and reminds people of the things that make life worth living. Love is the most powerful thing in the planet. Michael Sneed, VP of corporate affairs at Johnson & Johnson, highlighted the importance of this corporate campaign: We thought it was important to reconnect with customers, healthcare professionals, and reconnect them to J&J and really help them understand the values behind J&J.  The television campaign is yet to be launched in the US in 6th May 2013, but have been a feature of the blogosphere. Check it out and leave your views in the comment section.