Both the best and worse in one ad:
Breitling's awful #squadonamission advertising is surely the most toe-curling, embarrassing watch advertising of all time?
Surfer Squad! Movie Squad! Explorer Squad! Aviator Squad! Christ, it's like the start of the Power Rangers show my child was obsessed by when he was six.
Every time I see one of those ads it makes me faintly ashamed to wear any watch at all, never mind a Breitling, in case people think I may be the target audience.
Also, good morning.
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That's put me right off my toast and Marmite...
I'm also particular to how Omega wearers think they are tool watches for rugged manly men doing manly things but Omega...
“You never actually own a Patek Philippe....” complete with B&W father/son photo.
Pure cheese.
AP's advertising slogan "To break the rules, you must first master them" always makes me cringe.
The intention of advertising is to ensure that the memory of the product is stuck in your head. The very fact that you are compelled to write in about it, proves that they got it right.
I’ve always believed that to be nonsense. Plenty of products are stuck in my head but for all the wrong reasons and as such I’m never likely to purchase the product. For example, I’ll never bank with Halifax after they inflicted us with those awful, annoying song and dance adverts about ten years ago.
About one in one hundred advertisements show clever creative thinking IMO. Some are just lazy versions of the same thing. Cars driving at night in deserted Cities spring to mind. Come to think of it that might be possible now.
Yet everyone knows that slogan & ad. What is poor, is the lack of non white people in those ads IMHO
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The purpose of advertising is to change behaviour
Not all ads are trying to sell you a product or a service, such as gov ads
Anyway, watches, perfumes, cars are particularly poor advertisers from a creative perspective. Total lack of distinctiveness in most cases
Audi is a notable exception, as is VW. Particularly if you look at historical ads from the Beetle launch in the US
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The belief that all PR is good PR is pretty old hat now. And incorrect.
BP is stuck in my head for all the damage done in the Gulf of Mexico. Given a choice, will I fill up at BP next time?
Watchbrand A is famous for their expensive and untimely servicing experiences. Buyer beware, they’ll say on the forums.
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TaG Heuer have had some odd ideas - celeb's like DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz apparently wear their watches wrapped around their fists rather than on their wrists.
And 'Don't Crack Under Pressure', featuring Ayrton Senna, Mohammed Ali, Tom Brady, Christiano Ronaldo and... Cara Delevingne. Gosh, the pressure of having to sit still while you have your photo taken must be intense.
I think the Hublot Ecclestone advert is bang on for the target audience. I always thought the Audi advert with the thrusting yuppie exec jumping back into his 3-series after test driving the subtle Audi was quite clever. Very out of date today, though, as that very demographic migrated to Ingolstadt many years ago now.
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Did anyone ever buy a Montego after seeing Russ Swift 2-wheel one ?!
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No - as usual you're bing too simplistic. The purpose of advertising in to promote or sell a product (or service, or idea, etc). If product advertising sticks in your head because it's convinced you not to buy, then it's failed in its objective.
Anyway, here's some proper advertising!
I don’t know about Breitling but I love the 70s national geographic Rolex adds pure class
John Barrowman as an 'ambassador' for Tudor was pretty bad.
'Sir' Bob Geldof pimping Maurice Lacroix was truly cringeworthy.
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Jim.
OK ask yourself this simplistic question - why do companies and their agencies produce these bad adverts if they deter people from buying ?
I will give you the simplistic answer - some people will stay away but most won't and the evidence is there to prove it. Agencies are not idiots, their adverts have to generate sales and
profits or else they would be history.
You don't like the advert, that's fair enough but most people couldn't care but at the same time they become a bit more familiar with the maker and that's it, job done.
It’s a philosophical point in marketing but evidence seems to suggest growth from new buyers should be the primary focus, as retention / loyalty marketing has been proven ineffective. I reference Byron Sharp’s work at the Ehrenberg Bass Institute
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Breitling are the kings of cringe. Anything with this volcano-space alien worshiping weirdo is up there with the worst of advertising:
No big deal at all. But maybe one of you knows more about advertising than just listening to his gut feeling.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
I'll be interested to see which way watch advertising goes in the coming months if we suffer an economic downturn. I noticed in 2012 when we had a bit of a boom after the recession, Breitling clearly shifted their advertising to a younger generation...went for pop-art and celebrity.
I think the young are going to be hit far harder than the old in a downturn so I wonder if we see a shift in advertising to target buyers who can still afford their products.
Late to the advert chat, and reposting myself, which is bad form, but here we go...
Have we mentioned the utterly cringeworthy Casino Royale script....
"Rolex?"
"Omega."
"Beautiful."
Personally, I'd have given Versper Lynd a slap round the face there and then for confusing a Rolex with an Omega...
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Casio’s latest YouTube ad/info video has various people doing active stuff but most aren’t even wearing a watch
I am not an expert on advertising but I was responsible for negotiating terms and conditions for Royal Mail advertising contracts. This meant visiting advert agencies and negotiating fees based on revenue increases etc. The agencies employed the luvy element who were the creative side but I dealt with the finance people and lawyers.
However during lunch, the concept of advertising was often discussed and the Elton John adverts (around 2001 -2003) were extremely successful but the content was heavily criticised as total rubbish. Charley Dimmock had an advert where she opened an envelope and pulled out a big red bra which was slagged off by feminist as being puerile and degrading to women. It certainly lacked creativity to the point of being boringly brain dead but it had the desired effect of making us lot buy more stamps.
The main task was to get us to think of a given product and keep it in the back of our heads whether we liked it or not.
That is purely my experience but I was dealing with people who knew their stuff.
Those trying to bring back lost shoppers have a considerably lower ROI than the penetration driven ones, it’s all in the science and marketing mix modelling that brand managers are using to optimise their media spends, along side promotions which are a more effective reward for loyal shoppers.
How long were you in advertising? I was in IT in an agency for 19 years. Nobody sets out to make a bad advert. However they do happen for a variety of reasons, most often from my experience, when the client interferes with the creative process and think they know better than those whose advice they have sought. Imagine needing the services of a QC and ignoring their advice. Same thing. Anyway moving on.
Here's a couple that are good examples of bad advertising.
First, one that is so sexist it would not be allowed now, which is not to say that agencies don't think in sexist terms, it's been my experience that they do - regularly.
Next, the famous Bremont Wright Flyer ad, in which they lied exaggerated about creating their own in house movement, even if, when challenged later, they weren't quite sure what in house meant.
I was never in advertising as such but I was responsible for negotiating the commercial side of projects for about 8 years. I was never involved in the talent or creativity side. I can see your point about client interference as I was representing the RM marketing departments who were determined to get what they wanted and were at constant loggerheads with the agencies who wanted to inject more creativity etc and the finished product was often a compromise of two extreme opposing views.
However I cannot ever recall a bad advertising project that failed to increase revenue to pre agreed targets.