Talk about monetizing your assets! While some airlines are beginning to quietly review advertising opportunities on their planes, Skybus is unabashedly offering up anything and everything they own to potential advertisers. Napkins, tray tables, headrests, overhead compartments, in-flight announcements…heck, even the plane itself. Check out this co-branded execution for Nationwide:
What do rain forests, Icelandic waters and tropical fish all have in common? They are all part of a multi-city, multi-execution, completely transformative $30-million branding campaign for Westin. As a continuation of the upscale hotel chain’s This is how it should feel campaign, agency-of-record Deutsch NY created mini-escapes for weary 9-to-5-ers, transporting them, even momentarily, from their daily routine to a more restorative environment.
The execution, which is heavily focused on out-of-home elements, launched in subways, airports, train stations and highways in major US cities. The ambitious effort includes more than 270 pieces of creative across 2,750 placements nationwide.
I ran across this recent NYC out-of-home execution for BIC’s Wite-Out product and I have to admit the first thing that came to mind was an old, politically incorrect joke:
How can you tell a blond has been using your computer?
There’s Wite-Out all over the screen.
(I’ll go ahead and apologize now to all my fair-headed friends. I didn’t make the joke up, just helped its circulation…)
I suppose there must be someone out there that actually still uses the stuff (as they pound away on their typewriters, listening to 8-tracks and watching groovy movies on their beta players….), but I can’t say I even remember the last time I needed it. So there’s part of me that really can’t blame creative agency G2 Promotional Marketing for the tired, un-creative campaign for a soon-to-be-obsolete product. Could you imagine coming in to work and finding out you have to sell Wite-Out to a digital society? I think they call that agency hell.
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I ran across a really interesting article today in The Capital Times, a Madison, WI publication, profiling the city’s partnership with Adams Outdoor Advertising to promote full-wraps of up to 15 of its metro buses. While bus wraps aren’t exactly “news” in and of themselves, the arguments against them really caught my attention.
With so much talk lately about agencies merging offline and online shops, industry execs declaring the death of any non-digital form of advertising, and a recent (shocking!) announcement that teens are ignoring those spiffy digital ads that are taking over the world, I can’t help but wonder what it will take to remind marketers that as cool as the tools become, consumers are still people (for the most part, at least). For those of you with a giant “duh” ringing between your ears, hear me out. Continue reading →
