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On advertising, we believe in David Ogilvy’s rules for success. Here's why! 📚
David Ogilvy has provided advertisers with a vast wealth of knowledge and marketing insights, gained from his wildly successful and celebrated career. But his infamous rules have garnered him a fair share of criticism, too. As he writes in his infamous, 'Ogilvy On Advertising': “I am sometimes attacked for imposing ‘rules.’ Nothing could be further from the truth. I hate rules. All I do is a report on how consumers react to different stimuli.”
The 5 commandments of media planning. 📜
Media planning negates the need for any unforeseen costs or hurdles. With the right plan in place, brands can see amazing results.
We Broke Down Advertising Spend for 2021. Here’s What To Expect.
It's fair to say that advertising budgets in the post-pandemic era will vary from 2019 forecasts. The world after coronavirus will be a very different place. Brands are focusing on better understanding what consumers want and need during this time of transitioning to the “new normal”.
Brand: questions you should be asking your audience.
One of the best things brands can do is keep track of how they’re being perceived by their audience.
Humans: predictable creatures in a digital world.
In today’s world, the effervescent and mercurial partnership between the internet and digital marketing has allowed brands and business to scale at an unprecedented speed. This, along with the ever-evolving and growing number of strategies, placements and opportunities, means the fight for a consumer’s attention, let alone a quantifiable action, is at an all-time high.
Near real-time inspiration changed the seasonal buying cycles.
Consumers are now fuelled by near real-time inspiration, social pressure for newness and supported by fast and convenient consumption. And the best part for brands is that these young consumers are very comfortable with algorithms and advertising helping them to discover new products.
Stop with audiences, media plans or KPI’s: instead start with a concept.
The true potential of digital advertising and the ability to really cut through the noise can only be effectively achieved by blending a concept, story, narrative, creative assets, specifications of ad format and a particular audience that will relate to that piece. And that audience should be based on a specific set of behaviours, tastes, personal choices and not on demographics, postal codes or “personas”.
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