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Hello, marketers. Look at your AC Nielsen data. Now back at me. Now back at your data. Now back to me. Did I ever tell you that I spent much of my formative years neck-deep in AC Nielsen data, judging year-over-year, month-over-month, weekly, SKU-level and key account level sell through data? I did. It wasn’t the sexy [...]
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Hello, marketers. Look at your ad. Now back at me. Now back at your ad. Now back to me. Sadly, your ad didn’t sell anything. But if it stopped trying to be comedy and remembered that ads were supposed to sell stuff, it could act like me. Look down. Back up. Where are we? We’re [...]
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“The brilliance of the strategy was that they were filming these people when they were doing the test. The thing that was creating the wow factor was that when you removed the box that was hiding the two cans, the Coke drinker, who looked like a Coke drinker, would say, Oh my God, I can’t believe [...]
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“In some respects, it seems like I’m one of the few guys in the world who understands that ads are meant to sell stuff.” Bob Parsons, founder and CEO of Go Daddy. I make it a habit to defend Go Daddy on principle because of that quote, above. I don’t need to, in all honesty, [...]
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Quote from Sergio Zyman from his book, The End of Advertising as We Know It: “Apple’s ad agency collected the 1998 Emmy Award for best commercial, the 1998 Silver Clio, and the 1998 Silver Lion at Cannes. The company’s revenues dropped for the next three quarters in a row.” Quote from Bob Parsons, CEO of [...]
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