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  SOME BRILLIANT ADVERTISING TO MULL OVER!!!
 



MR. JITESH PARMAR, 

Faculty of Marketing, SRIMCA  

 


This article attempts to present an analysis of some very creative ads of well known brands. Hope you will enjoy the creativity used by the ad makers.

1. AQUAFRESH TOOTHPASTE:

 

Advertising Analysis

Target Audience: Higher class people, Corporations

Language: English

Strategy: To creatively address the aquafresh toothpaste’s superior long lasting effects.

Key Message: Aquafresh’s unique benefit of teeth shining for longer time (even at night).

Description: Every one of us mainly prefers to sleep in non-lighting environment. The advertisement has creatively used this fact by depicting a couple hiding the lights (Sourcing from aquabrushed teeth!!) through Eye covers while sleeping.

Media Placement: Consumer as well as Business Magazines, Newspapers, Internet, Outdoor especially at traffic points.

Notes: Desired combinations of lights are used in the advertisement pertaining to ambience at night. The package of toothpaste is shown bright to catch quick attention.

 

 2. SUGARFREE  LOLLIPOP:

 

Advertising Analysis

Target Audience: Children and their parents

Language: English

Strategy: To address a subject matter that it is good to have less consumption of sugar that will keep our children away from many health related problems.

Key Message: Lollipop is having unique benefit of being free from sugar.

Description: It is our general observation that ants surround over an object which is having sugar. The advertisement has creatively demonstrated that this lollipop does not contain sugar and hence ants do not surround it. Meaning that this SUGARFREE LOLLIPOP is not bad for those who consume it.

Media Placement: Consumer Magazines, Newspapers, Outdoor especially near schools. 

Notes: The image of lollipop is made brighter to get quick attention towards it, which is desirable.   

 

3. FEVICOL:


 
Advertising Analysis

Target Audience: Individuals as well as businesses.

Language: English

Strategy: To demonstrate creatively that fevicol is a brand which offers superior solutions for bonding joints/breakages.

Key Message: Fevicol’s unique benefit of Strongest bond.

Description: In science, we all learned that N Pole attracts the S Pole and vise versa and same poles distracts each other. But the advertisements has creatively proved the science wrong by depicting that if those same Poles are bonded with fevicol, then due to the strongest bond, they will not distract each other and remain on the same position.

Media Placement: Consumer as well as Business Magazines, Newspapers, Internet as well as Outdoors (Especially Traffic Points). 

 

4. PIONEER CAR MUSIC SYSTEM:


 

Advertising Analysis

Target Audience: Car Owners, Car Dealers, Car Agents.

Language: English

Strategy: To creatively demonstrate that pioneer music system can outbeat others.

Key Message: Pioneer’s unique benefit of blast of music.

Description: Every one of us wishes to have a superior music system in our car and of course which is better than others is having. The advertisement has nicely demonstrated the benefit by depicting that superior blasting sound has lowered the other cars as well as has also broken the glasses of buildings.

Media Placement: Consumer as well as Business / Auto Magazines, Newspapers, Outdoor (Mainly Traffic Points, Near Public Places etc.)  

Notes: The ad also markets two different models of the music system providing same common benefit: Blasting Sound.

 

5. WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER:


 

Advertising Analysis

Target Audience: Cross-country flyers, Businesses.

Language: English

Strategy: To creatively communicate the superior service of delivery of money from one place to another place.

Key Message: Company’s business of quickly transferring money from one place to another place 

Description: This advertisement is using magic of two different English words: HERE (refer to the place where you are, or at a place near you) and THERE (refer to an adverb used to indicate a place either one that has already been mentioned or is understood, or one indicated by pointing or looking). Needless to say that creativity is imbibed in such a way that it clearly conveys what it wants to.

Media Placement: Consumer as well as Business Magazines, Newspapers, Internet and outdoor (best suitable can be transit media).  

Notes: Color combination used between the background and text are ideal. Uncommon word (T) is nicely displayed having less contrast to distinguish that there are in fact two words, not one.

 

6. SAVE TREES:


 
 


Advertising Analysis

Target Audience: Mass community/society, Corporates.

Language: English

Strategy: To address a subject matter that it is must to save trees which are responsible for goodness of the whole society / community. 

Key Message: Demonstrate one benefit of saving of life by saving the trees.

Description: Having existence of trees on our planet is said to be worship from the almighty. Since so many years, the trees play a very important role of maintaining a LIFE CYCLE of this earth. They absorb CO2  and offer us Oxygen-the lifeline of humankind as well as maintains balancing environment temperature. The advertisement has nicely proved that even during floods, you can simply climb on the tree and can save your valuable life!!

Media Placement: Consumer / Community and Business Magazines, Newspapers, Internet.

Notes: The image used is in black and white, depicts clearly the poor conditions arises during natural calamities like floods.