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February 27, 2003
Yahoo! News picked up this press release from Big Boy Restaurants about their upcoming
“multi-media re-branding campaign:”
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It would be better if the menu mix supported the ad strategy. “Ohhh Boy” and
capitalizing on the strengths of the existing brand seem pulled from a different marketing
page than a menu that includes chicken pasta primavera and turkey club salads. Sigh.
Advertising can do only so much, folks, even when it comes to branding.
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February 22, 2003
From Yahoo! News and Reuters comes this article about Home Depot’s new ad campaign,
to be launched on the Grammy Awards:
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Hmmm. “You can do it. We can help.” Is it my imagination, or is this strongly
evocative of Bob the Builder? Also, I find the reference to “The Softer Side of
Sears” unsettling. That branding effort might have “boosted the image of
Sears,” but it didn’t do much for sales or market share, resulting in yet
another corporate shake-up. My, but marketing folks have short memories.
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February 20, 2003
An article about the persistence of advertising jingles, from the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer:
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Now, if the ad jingles quoted aren’t familiar to you, it’s probably because
you don’t live where you’d have heard them. Jingles were sticky long before the
term was applied to web content. I rather suspect their fall from favor has to do with
people’s ever-decreasing attention spans - and that applies to advertisers and
copywriters as well as those in their target audiences. Who has time to pay attention to a
jingle, when an old pop song is instantly recognizable? Still, I think a lot of radio,
television, and web advertisers are missing the opportunity to make a savvy investment in
their brand, by entrenching - and I mean entrenching - a catchy, well-written
jingle. A jingle can deliver a unique sales message in a unique way, on a level that a
pre-existing song simply cannot.
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