Insights and Ideas on Communications Planning
December 19, 2010 Leave a comment
Coke and Pepsi’s rivalry is the stuff of legend in the ad business. They vigorously compete for share of voice, share of heart and share of throat. In the case of Coke Zero and Pepsi Max, these beverage giants are chasing a burgeoning market of men who apparently aren’t man enough to own up to drinking a soda marked “diet.” They’re also notoriously light TV viewers and generally difficult to reach.
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The automotive category is consistently among the biggest, most competitive and innovative media spenders. While automotive manufacturers typically focus on model-led advertising, both BMW and Audi put a much stronger emphasis on their brands.
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Hotels have very much become the major battleground for Expedia and Priceline and this is reflected in the focus of their advertising. Online Travel Agencies (OTA’s) accounted for 34.7% of all U.S. hotel bookings in the first quarter of 2010, up from 27.8% in 2009, Priceline CMO Brett Keller said in a recent speech.
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Two shows whose marketing has stood out in recent years, however, don’t even have commercial time for marketers and their agencies to buy: Showtime’s “Dexter” and HBO’s “True Blood.”
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Unilever’s Axe and Procter & Gamble’s Old Spice have played more than their fair share of one-on-one ball in recent times. Axe has delivered some irreverent and sometimes controversial campaigns over the years, while Old Spice has rejuvenated the brand to make it more relevant to a younger user. Here, we check out their form and stats across both media plans.
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This Sunday, the film industry’s good and great will adorn the red carpet with their Gucci gowns and Cartier jewelry for Hollywood’s biggest night, as the 82nd Annual Academy Awards celebrate the best in the business. But who would win our Oscar for “Best Use of Media to Promote a Film”? We nominated “The Blind Side” from Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. and Paramount’s “Up in the Air.”
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Product launches for Activision’s “Guitar Hero 5″ and MTV Games’ “The Beatles: Rock Band” last September became a high-stakes marketing strum-off. After some amazing growth in earlier years that saw the console, portable and PC game software industry reach its high score in 2008, sales declined 11% in 2009. These two marketers showed off a combination of skillful hammer-on and pull-off maneuvers in media to bring their products to market. We decided to evaluate each brand’s media strategy.
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The credit-card companies were presented with some challenges in 2009. First and foremost, the risk that their advertising is seen as encouraging reckless spending or increasing consumer debt; and secondly, being closely associated with the financial institutions seen as responsible for much the economy’s woes. So how did they handle their media campaigns while driving their business?
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Americans will fill their shopping baskets with a whopping 600 million pounds of candy during this Halloween season. This represents a crucial sales period for the country’s two largest confectionary manufacturers, Mars Snackfood US and The Hershey Company, as each looks to make their year. Here we analyze the 2009 media plans for their flagship brands: M&M’s and Hershey Kisses.
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The start of the football season kicks off the most important sales period in the pizza-delivery game. A rivalry to match a Cowboys-Redskins playoff would have to be the head-to-head shootout between pizza franchises Pizza Hut and Domino’s. In media terms, there’s a high level of blocking and tackling, and strategy that is played out in their advertising programs.
