Advertising

Around the turn of the 20th century, the Esso Tiger initially debuted in Norway as a mascot. Before the outbreak of World War II, Esso's European subsidiaries continued to use the…

The first suggestion Lord & Thomas  (the advertising agency) gave their client American Tobacco must have flummoxed them: stop advertising most of your brands. Albert …

Luciano Benetton admitted that Benetton's early focus was on ensuring that the product met demand and that they did not have to advertise. When they began exporting, he realised t…

In 1956, Vincent T. Cullers set out on a mission to revolutionise the industry. So that it would finally start serving a market that it had been neglecting for far too long. There…

Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg was born in Germany and raised there. He began his career as a carpenter before becoming an apprentice to a musical instrument maker. And then he st…

Karl Lieberman & Brandon Henderson were college mates and then creative partners at Euro RSCG in 2007. They had been working with the Mexican beer brand Dos Equis for some …

Johnnie Walker was seeing declining sales in 1999. Volume sales had decreased by 14 per cent, and market share had also been steadily losing momentum. Bartle Bogle Hegarty was …

In 2010, Volkswagen had started planning for airing commercials during the 2011 Superbowl. It was gearing up for a major push in the international markets, especially the US. …

Felix Baumgartner approached RedBull before it reached him, asking them to sponsor him in a BASE (buildings, antennas, spans/bridges, and earth/cliffs) jump from the 860-foot New …

There were many other images of Santa Claus around the world before 1931, including a tall gaunt man, an elf, and even a terrifying Claus. Santa Claus had mostly evolved into t…

Michael Jackson's managers approached Jay Coleman, founder/CEO of Entertainment Marketing & Communications International, in 1983, one year after the success of the album Thri…

British Airways commissioned Saatchi & Saatchi to create a new advertising campaign in 1989 after the airline had carried more than 24 million passengers. And it was Graham…

The Maha Kumbh Mela, which takes place every 12 years in Allahabad, attracts the world's largest crowd of pilgrims. A hundred million Hindus flock to the city to take a holy bath …

Lucie Austin, then the director of marketing for Coca-Cola South Pacific, received a 151-word creative brief in 2011 that gave marketing carte blanche to come up with an innovativ…