ThinkNoLimit Marketing Coaching

When I saw this ad, I said to myself I must be getting old and dumb. I didn't understand this clever ad. It's selling non-stick pan alright but there is a creative idea which I found it hard to understand. I tried look at it closely, turn it upside down and even flipped a few pages of the magazine to look for follow-up explanation, presumably it's a teaser. None... I managed to figure it out after spending some more time on it... know what it's about ?

Thanks to a friend who sent me this. This video only lasts 5 minutes or so. It's worth the time to watch it and think it over. Everyone is talking about the importance of social media in marketing communications. It's free and it can reach the younger generation. Is it simply about posting your TVC onto YouTube ? And you expect people to send and share it ? If it's not creative or anything funny, people would not share it at all. Heineken here is a good example. You may call it a PR stunt, with the use of internet to spread it out.

得力素, Detrox, is such a long forgotten brand name. It was a glucose drink at the start and later diversified into lemon candy with glucose in the middle, said to be healthy (because of the Vitamin C) and give you the energy (because of the glucose). Now it re-appears as a candy that gives you brain energy after so many years. Does the positioning sound familiar ? It's like the candy version of Lucozade. Will that sell ? Maybe. If consumers buy on the brain energy positioning of Lucozade, there may be room for a brain energy candy which is more convenient. Yet it will takes a lot of resources and commitment to build/re-build such a brand.

Quite many people are talking about the new launch of GUM 5 by Wrigley's. I bet the heated talk abouts must be generated by the TVCs and the packaging design which resembles to condom packs. I have clipped all three ads from YouTube for your enjoyment. The campaign has centred around taste sensation. No doubt these are great ads which are of high production value as well as successfully set up the expectation and build up the excitement for trial. The risk is there when consumers try it and find the taste nothing special. It will become an over-claim and the heat will only be like fireworks that last for a short while.