by Kim Penstone. It’s almost serendipitous that the advertising and music industries have aligned to create a new marketing model.
Tag archives: Red Bull
Motive: Why aren’t more clients producing quality radio content?
by Paulo Dias. If General Electric can see the value of its own audio content and the power of audio and podcasts, what does that tell us?
Brand Culture: SquareSpace, Jeff Bridges and his weird sounds — a cultural misfire
by DK Badenhorst (@BrandCultureSA) Tapping into little pockets of pop culture is a tricky and fascinating business. If the goal is to create culturally interesting advertising or any mainstream piece of communication, it’s even trickier. You need to find something that is relatively niche but still recognisable (Red Bull films). If you don’t, you end up with people not knowing what they’re looking at (SquareSpace’s Jeff Bridges ad).
Ad of the Week: Rocking the Red Bull brand
by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) Today, instead of looking at a specific ad, I’m going to talk about the benefits of being a brand that gets how to connect with people, looking at how the Red Bull brand gets ‘wiiiings’, thanks to its creative campaigns.
Newsjacking: a fad or the future for marketing?
by Richard Gruner, University of Melbourne A newsworthy event is happening right now. And another, and another — it never ends.
This is vital not just for feeding our 24-hour news cycle and hungry media corporations, but increasingly also for marketers working for all sorts of brands. That’s because every news story has the potential to attract the same people firms wish to reach and talk to, and is therefore an opportunity to be “newsjacked”.
Newsjacking. It means injecting a firm’s ideas or angles into breaking news to generate media coverage for your brand. A prominent example of this is when officials at the London Olympics mixed up the Korean flags, and optometrist Specsavers moved in with their slogan: “Should have gone with Specsavers”.
Bestselling marketing author David Scott explains that these stories do not even have to directly relate to your business. When Kate Winslet was staying with Sir Richard Branson at a private retreat, lightning set their home on fire, and Kate rescued Branson’s elderly mother from the blaze. That’s not only a story that will attract attention and interest, but the London Fire Brigade saw an opportunity here to run a story on their website, offering the actress a chance to train with their firefighters. I don’t think she ever took them up on the offer, but with little or no investment, the fire brigade had unprecedented media exposure and interest in their work. Newsjacking on fire.
Newsjacking should happen in near real-time to be executed well. It demands a fluid, creative team that can go from idea, to concept, to market in less than 48 hours. Of course, social media can accelerate this process. It can take weeks or even months for a print ad to get published, but to inject content on your Facebook fan page only takes a few minutes. And yes, as Simms says, if you do it right it’s an easy way to build consumer affinity, affection and saliency for your brand.
Andy Davis digs up the underground with Mahala
Andy Davis’s name may forever be associated with the defunct student magazine SL. It really shouldn’t be. The not terribly rebellious and long-dead youth magazine, which he used to edit in the early part of the previous decade, has been properly usurped by the creation of Davis’s own publication – the youth-orientated Mahala magazine and website.