Marketing

What has hair colour to do with women's liberation? Lots, if you realize how L'Oreal's famous slogan was created. It came from an unexpected source: female frustration. The ide…

In the 1930s, Harland Sanders, the founder of KFC, maintained a service station in Corbin, Kentucky, serving hungry travellers. In 1935, his cooking had become well-known, and Gov…

Audi was to launch their first brand campaign in the UK in 1982. The brief was given to BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty). There was some advertising earlier, but nothing strategic or br…

Due to wartime food shortages, Rowntree's of York was compelled to change the recipe of its Chocolate Crisp bar in 1941. Afraid of upsetting a devoted following (the product was i…

Two members of Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP)’s creative team, copywriter Terry Lovelock and art director Vernon Howe, were tasked with creating a new image for the Dutch beverage…

Fallon began working with Sony in 2002, and the strategy process began then. From ‘Go Create' to ‘You Make It A Sony,' there had already been a transformation. Now, a rethinkin…

It was 1993. Holmes, Knight, Ritchie/TBWA had hired Nigel Rose, formerly of Collett, Dickenson, Pearce and Partners, as a joint creative director. He arrived at an unfortunate tim…

In the 1970s, unemployment dominated the Conservative Party's campaigning not once, but twice. Expecting James Callaghan to call an early election in fall 1978, they plastered Bri…

David Abbott had his reservations when he was asked to pitch for The Economist business. Media owners were notoriously tough to deal with, with their strict schedules and inter…

During a strategy meeting in 2002, a predominantly lady agency-client team (Ogilvy and Unilever) tried to explain to their male colleagues why women dislike most beauty advertisin…

One evening Kishore Subramaniam, the planner on Sonata watches walked into Rajesh Ramaswamy's (Ramsam)’s room for a chat. Kishore: Machaan, we need to do an ad with Dhoni for S…

Flipkart just updated the look of their company. It intended to convey that it has a diverse group of customers, spanning age groups, genders, and locations. While they had bee…

When a friend showed Vinny Warren a "super-grainy and deteriorated" VHS film of guys screaming "WHAAASSSSUP!" at each other over the phone in 1999, he thought he'd struck gold. Th…

Ogilvy won the mandate for Diu Tourism, amid intense competition. It was our attention-getting creative idea that clinched it. We went on to launch the campaign with teaser ads de…