Monday 20 July 2009

Plan your snow campaign now


The London sun has come out for the first time in ages, so I've found a selection of snow ads. This first one is such a simple idea. All you need is some cheap labour to go out with the latest flight prices. It looks like there's a leaflet under the wiper - which is a shame. The sustainable campaign would be complete with a URL after the price.

An alternative is snow tagging. This example was picked up by all the London media. For those who recognised the logo as that of the Extreme Sports Channel, it worked. A line would have been good: See what we do in snow @ Extreme.com

Judging by the comments around the interweb, it was quite controversial with people resenting the lovely pristine snow being sullied by dirty advertising. But I doubt many people saw it for real - they saw photos in the media. And then they talked about it. Job done.

This ad for car wax really works. And there's no reason why it couldn't be done for real in large car parks. Again it would need a product name - perhaps tagged in a small section of snow left on the bonnet.
And imagine the delight of getting back to your car and finding it completely snow free.






Wednesday 15 July 2009

A cut above the rest


This has been around a while, but I love it. As use of grass or crops go, it's extremely effective.

Pizza on the floor


Clean advertising, reverse graffiti, whatever you call it - it's an effective and sustainable way of getting your message across.
Using a template, an area of pavement is blast cleaned leaving visuals, logo, copy - whatever you want.
All that's being removed is dirt, and even the council don't own that. And over a short period of time, the message fades and disappears.
This is something we've working on here in the UK - now it's appearing over the streets of US cities thanks to Domino's Pizzas.
There's a competition attached: the first 250 people who send their PR department a photo of them with the ad will receive a $15 discount card.
Nice - but what if there were 6 different visuals. Find all 6 Legends and win pizzas for you and 5 friends. Just because the media's relatively new, there's no reason not to push the idea as far as possible.