Wednesday, 16 January 2013

OUGD401- Creative Advertising and New Media Lecture notes

Creative Advertising and New Media

What is new media?
'media that works, not works through persuasions'

The advertising strategy:

  • Required speaking to the masses
  • Global print campaigns
  • High feeling/ emotive strategy - make the audience feel good - charm them/ pull at their heartstrings


Old and New communication models:
Old: transmission

  • transmit ideas to an audience

New: cybernetic

  • engage with an audience
  • via computer (mediated communication) CMC

New Media model

  • advertising and new media (Spurgeon, 2008)
  • Shift from mass to my media
  • More targeted via mobile to specific audiences
  • More personal distribution
  • Audience involvement:
a) voluntarily passing viewing adverts (virals)
b) creating spoofs, filming etc

Viral: Unpaid advertising 

  • Virals (adverts) becoming part of our conversations
  • Send it to your friends digitally
  • From talk about to talk with


the 'Remember Reach' campaign for Halo, 2010 consisted of;

  • Launching a film 'Birth of a Spartan' which announces Reach Beta
  • 3 films released prior to this, the fourth film being released after the website launch
  • Teasers to advertise the game
  • Sad/ dramatic story in the films provoking emotions
  • Dots of light added on the website on a world map for every person who visits the site and their location to involve and emote the audience

Kaiser Chiefs album 'The future is Medieval' campaign:

  • Customer chooses 10 tracks out of 20
  • create their own album cover online
  • advertise it on facebook to facebook friends
  • the person who sells the most albums name appears on the skin of the image of a drum on the site
  • customer earns £1 for every album they sell
The three little pigs viral video - the guardian online:
  • Recession and riots
  • Celebration of new media itself
  • the idea: to transform a newspaper into a global news 'hub' 
  • Modern news is dynamic, participative with open dialogue welcome from the viewer.
Invisible Children Campaign
  • R4 ICC Congo Warlord Lubanga guilty 30 years
  • March 5th released
  • in 3 days, it received 26million views
Beattie the big creative idea
  • Internet - the biggest thing since the wheel
  • enables even small ideas to circulate
  • most interesting form of communication
Viewer generated content
  • Coke & Mentos
  • Viewer generated advertising worth US $10m to Mentos 'more than half its annual advertising budget' (Spurgeon, 2008)
Levi's 'Go Forth' campaign:
  • beautifully crafted photography
  • Walt Whitman poetry - ultimate American poetry
  • Patriotism
  • Lifestyle
Wrangler Jeans' interactive site

Future Nike:
  • Give people tools through apps - life enhancing qualities by means of advertising or enhancing a products' appeal
  • Nike plus - how far run record.
  • Nike grid - training aid made fun by a race/ game
  • London map record your time and route, then try to beat others on the database.

Creating a dialog 
  • Paul Burns (TBWA) 'talking with audience'
  • 40mil Old Spice
  • Responding to a tweet
  • The making of Old Spice: copywriter and art director Craig Allen and Erik Kallman

Reasons why this is the best time to be in advertising:
  • Agencies can innovate e.g., NYC tourism campaign. The idea: NYC street culture, street musicians lined to campaign in 1 'Dig out your soul' unreleased album.
  • The third screen- the mobile phone is a whole new and more intimate medium of getting to your market. Putting brands in people's hands.
  • The Kairos factor: the principle of presenting the desired message at the opportune moment.
  • No medium is dying. IE, print.
  • Each different medium has a different role in narrating the 'story'
  • traditional style 'announcements' still have their place.
  • Big ideas and craft remain important.
What is the impact of 'New Media' on advertising agencies?
'Advertising is such a limiting role now', Andy Fowler, Brothers & Sisters impact NM a third layer communication.

The New model of creativity:
  • larger teams
  • Collaborative Creativity
  • ebrainstorming
  • collaborative online creativity : IE, Estudio
  • Omnium project
  • Hegarty & Beattie

Conversations lead to flow, and flow leads to creativity.

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