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Learn how to craft effective and original ad messages that captivate audiences and drive action, enhancing brand awareness and ROI. Discover practical tips and strategies for creating unique and engaging ad campaigns.
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THE CREATIVE SIDE OF ADVERTISINGAND MESSAGE STRATEGY MCD 1073 PRINCIPLES OF ADVERTISING
ART AND SCIENCE OF CREATIVE ADVERTISING • An ad needs to contain a persuasive message that convinces people to take action • An ad must make relevant connection with its audience and present a selling idea in an unexpected way
ROI OF EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING • An effective ad is relevant original and has impact • An idea with impact breaks through the clutter, gets attention and sticks in memory • An ad with impact has stopping power that comes from an intriguing idea
ROI OF EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING The Big Idea • Message is both getting and memorable • “True?” by Budweiser- big Idea is people drinking beer keeps people together, and they speak the same language • Sometimes visuals come first, sometimes words
Budweiser’s “True” advertising featuring a bunch of normal everyday guys with a connection
ROI OF EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING Practical tips for creating Original Ideas • An unexpected twist • An unexpected association • Catchy phrasing • A play on words • Analogy and metaphor • Familiar and strange
ROI OF EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING To prevent unoriginal ideas • The common • The look-alike • Clichés • The tasteless
ROI OF EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING The Creative Leap • A Big Idea that expresses an original advertising thought involving mind-shift • Looking at something a different way, from a different angle • All creative ideas comes with an element of risk
CREATIVE THINKING • A special form of problem solving • Free Association • Divergent Thinking • Analogies and Metaphors • Right-brain thinking
CREATIVE THINKING • Creative Aerobics • Facts • New Names • Similarities • New Definitions • Creative Roles
CREATIVE THINKING • The Creative Person Key Characteristics: • Problem Solving • Ability to Visualize • Openness to New Experiences • Conceptual Thinking
THE CREATIVE PROCESS Steps and Stages • Step 1 : Immersion Step 2 : Ideation • Step 3 : Brainfog • Step 4 : Incubation • Step 5 : Illumination • Step 6 : Evaluation
THE CREATIVE PROCESS Brainstorming • A thinking technique were 6-10 people work together to come up with ideas • One person’s idea stimulates someone else’s • Remain positive and defer judgment
CREATIVE STRATEGY • How the message is said • Message Objectives • Perception • Cognitive • Affective • Persuasion • Transformation • Behaviour
CREATIVE STRATEGY • Head and Heart Strategies • Hard and Soft-Sell Strategies • Lectures and Dramas
FACETS OF CREATIVE STRATEGY 1. Messages That Drive Perception • Attention and Awareness • Interest • Memory 2. Messages That Drive Cognition 3. Messages That Touch Emotions
FACETS OF CREATIVE STRATEGY 4. Messages That Persuade • Appeals • Selling Premises • Benefit • Promise • Reason Why • Unique Selling Proposition • Conviction
FACETS OF CREATIVE STRATEGY 5. Messages That Transform Product into a Brand - Associations 6. Messages That Drive Action 7. Delivering on the Objectives and Strategies
FACETS OF CREATIVE STRATEGY 8. Message Approaches • Straightforward • Demonstration • Comparison • Problem Solution • Humor • Slice of Life • Spokesperson • Teasers • Shockvertising
More tips for creating Original Ideas • Be observant • Keep a notebook • Have lots of ideas • Test your ideas