Creating Effective and Creative Advertising Messages

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Chapter Ten
Creating Effective and Creative Advertising
Messages
? 2007 Thomson South-Western
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Chapter Ten Objectives

• Appreciate the factors that promote effective and
  creative advertising.
• Understand a five-step program used in
  formulating advertising strategy.

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Chapter Ten Objectives

• Describe the features of a creative brief.
• Explain alternative creative styles that play a
  role in the development of advertising messages.
• Understand the concept of means-end chains and
  their role in advertising strategy.

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Chapter Ten Objectives

• Appreciate the MECCAS model and its role in
  guiding message formulation.
• Describe the laddering method that provides the
  data used in constructing a MECCAS model.
• Recognize the role of corporate image and issue
  advertising.

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Memorable Advertising

• Apple Computers 1984 TV Commercial

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What Makes Effective Advertising?
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The Role of Creativity

• Creative ads share two characteristics
• Originality
• Appropriateness

• American Family Life Assurance Company (AFLAC)
• Nike
• Honda U.K.
• Apple iPod

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Original Ads Apple iPod

• Silhouetted figures against the neon backgrounds
  holding iPods.
• Simplicity of the design and a different look
  than most commercials, which feature identifiable
  figures engaging in dialogue.

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Advertising Successes and Mistakes

• Value Proposition is the essence of a message and
  the reward to the consumer for investing his or
  her time attending to an advertisement.
• The reward could be information about the product
  or just an enjoyable experience.

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Advertising Successes and Mistakes
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Advertising Successes and Mistakes

• Successful campaigns both the brand management
  team and the creative team have done their work
  well.
• Marketing Mistakes result when the brand manager
  fails to distinguish the brand from competitive
  offerings.
• Agency Mistakes due to the ad agencys inability
  to design an effective execution, even though its
  brand management client has a convincing message.
  
• Complete Disasters caused by poor value
  propositions and mediocre executions.

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Advertising Plans and Strategy

• Advertising strategy
• An advertising message that
• communicates the brands primary
• benefits or how it can solve a
• consumers problem

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Advertising Strategy A Five-Step Program

• Specify the key fact from the customers
  viewpoint.
• State the primary problem, or advertising issue,
  from brand managements perspective.
• State the advertising objective.
• Implement the creative message strategy.
• Establish mandatory requirements.

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Step 1 Specify the Key Fact

• The key fact in an advertising strategy is a
  single-minded statement from the consumers point
  of view that identifies why consumers are or
  arent purchasing the brand.

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Step 2 State the Primary Problem

• Extending from the key fact, this step states the
  problem from the brand managements point of
  view.

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Step 3 State the Communications Objective

• This is a straightforward statement about what
  effect the advertising is intended to have on the
  target market.

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Step 4 Implement the Creative Message Strategy

• Sometimes called the creative platform, the
  positioning statement is the key idea that a
  brand is supposed to stand for in its target
  markets minds.

• Define the target market
• Identify the primary competition
• Choose the positioning statement
• Offer reasons why

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Step 5 Establish Mandatory Requirements

• The final step involves including mandatory
  requirements due to regulatory dictates, or
  non-regulatory requirements like the corporate
  logo or tag-line.

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Constructing a Creative Brief
Background
Their current thoughts/feelings
Strategy
What do we want them to think/feel
Task
What do we want them to do
Positioning
Proposition
Clients Objectives
Belief in proposition
Target
How we speak to them
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Styles of Creative Advertising
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Unique Selling Proposition Creative Style (USP)

• An advertiser makes a superiority claim based on
  a unique product attribute that represents a
  meaningful, distinctive consumer benefit.

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Brand Image Creative Style

• The brand image style involves psychosocial,
  rather than physical differentiation.
• Transformational advertising

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Resonance Creative Style

• Does not focus on product claims or brand images
  but rather seeks to present circumstances or
  situations that find counterparts in the real or
  imagined experience of the target audience.
• Examples Doves Real Beauty campaign
• QuickStep laminate floors

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Emotional Creative Style

• An attempt to reach the consumer at a visceral
  level by appealing to their emotions.

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Generic Creative Style

• An advertiser employs a generic style when making
  a claim that could be made by any company that
  markets a brand in a particular category.
• Most appropriate for a brand that dominates a
  product category.
• Example Campbells Soup

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Preemptive Creative Style

• An advertiser makes a generic-type claim but does
  it with an assertion of superiority.
• Example Visine gets the red out.

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In Summary

• An advertiser might use two or more styles
  simultaneously.
• Some experts believe that advertising is most
  effective when it addresses both functional
  product and symbolic benefits.
• Effective advertising must establish a clear
  meaning of what the brand is and how it compares
  to competitive offerings.

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Means-End Chaining
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Attributes-Consequences-Values

• Attributes are features or aspects of advertised
  brands.
• Consequences are what consumers hope to receive
  (benefits) or avoid (detriments) when consuming
  brands.
• Values represent those enduring beliefs people
  hold regarding what is important in life.

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The Nature of Values

• Self-direction
• Stimulation
• Hedonism
• Achievement
• Power

• Security
• Conformity
• Tradition
• Benevolence
• Universalism

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A MECCAS Model Conceptualization of Advertising
Strategy
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The MECCAS Model

• MECCAS Means End Conceptualization of
• Components
• for Advertising Strategy

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MECCAS Illustration For Self- Direction Value
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MECCAS Illustration for Stimulation Value
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MECCAS Illustration for Hedonism Value
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MECCAS Illustration for Achievement Value
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MECCAS Illustration for Power Value
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MECCAS Illustration for Security Value