Tag: advertisement
Vimto Pick Up Line: “Eylo Pretti Laydeez!”
Fresh Campaign for Vimto by UK based ad agency DRIVEN. Pimp My Ride: Carnival Splash: Share your thoughts on the campaign below
Behind The Scenes – Pepsi Pakistan ICC World Cup 2011 TVC
We’re lucky to get these sneak preview behind the scene videos of the Pakistan Cricket Team shooting for the Pepsi Pakistan’s ICC World Cup 2011 TV commercial. Watch the stars in a fun and exciting mood as they shoot for the ad, with bloopers and Afridi celebrating his birthday towards the end of the second [...]
The Death of a Brand
I remember when I interned at JWT in the summer of 2002, one of the most exciting and vibrant brands in the portfolio, was Brooke Bond. With great admiration and satisfaction I would view the ads on TV. I loved the whole brand identity, the line ‘Yehi to hai woh Apnapan’ was one of the [...]
Logistics Personified!
Advertisement is just about getting the right message across to the right people. Trying to many things with the ad might ruin it altogether. Here is an advertisement about a specialized service which has been rightfully understood and executed by the ad-team making it a different yet an interesting ad. They’ve used inculcated all the features [...]
Nudity in Advertisements
One of the marketing concepts taught to us last semester included not to have promotions based on nudity or that indicative of any traces of racism. Nude advertisements sound weird and people would wonder about how an advertisement can be nude, however, the example given by our teacher was quite self explanatory, it was Magnum’s [...]
History of Advertising
Advertising dates back to ancient Egyptian and Greek times in 3000 B.C when, most argue that literacy was not common, however, some say that cave drawings still found today were one of the forms of advertising as images and symbols helped get the message across. This is what you would find in books which convince [...]
OWSUM’s Awesome Advertisement and Other Stories . . .
Should Owsum be with an ‘O’ or with an ‘A’? This is a debatable topic discussed in the last episode, well . . . the last post. In my recent advertising class we were to bring in print advertisements and analyze them, however, a girl in my class had forgotten to bring one so I [...]
“Zong Competing With Telefun…”
It’s interesting how companies can compete to have not just advertisements but advertisements that are annoying enough to get people to sing their jingles andthen hate themselves for doing it. It might perform all functions, that is, inform, persuade and remind, however persuasion is something that might fail altogether . . . ah Telefun! It [...]
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Anti-Smoking Campaign [Video]
I still can’t understand why people smoke cigarettes. I have never tried one in my life and it never fascinates me. Some people told me that it relieves stress, but even being under tremendous stress I still can’t relate myself grabbing a pack of cigarettes and lighting them up to relieve mental stress. I am [...]
HBL – Tapping Into The Neglected SME Segment
In HBL’s latest “Business Value Account” advertising campaign, a farmer is featured as one of several small business owners whose anecdote is supposed to inspire potential customers to use HBL. TV, Print and Web ads prominently display the man and other entrepreneurs with the heading “Grow your business” & the tagline “Jahan Khwab, Wahan HBL”. [...]
MY BRAND IS GONNA GET YEW HOOKED!!
With a barrage of criticism in my earlier posts, here I am with another criticism. You know what I feel the brands especially targeting the youth of the country are playing by associating attributes and characteristics which have nothing to do with the brand in the first place. No link, no connection, no synergy and [...]
Omore OMG! The Art of Happiness or Is It?
I’m sure most of you must have seen the Omore Ice Cream Ad by now. A friend of mine brought my attention to it while we were talking about random telecom crapiness so obviously Telenor’s Tom Thumb Ad was brought up and thats when he said “what’s up with that Omore ad?” and I quickly [...]
Lack of Creativity: Pakistani Advertising
The consumers of today are hit by thousands of advertising and communication messages every day, and even though we know that it is a point of saturation in terms of amount of advertisement flowing in through multiple communication channels, we continue to do the same things every day. Even as marketers, in majority of the [...]
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