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The Soft Sell
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17412 |
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LIFE
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1 / 1990 |
2,218 Words |
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Robert James
Robert James works in advertising in Washington, D.C. |
The Martin Agency and its client Wrangler are gambling that they can improve blue jeans sales buy charming consumers with a couple of quiet, sentimental stories about fathers, sons, old dogs, freshwater fishing, and pickup trucks.
Mike Hughes, creative director at the Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia, believes his agency has crafted Wrangler's sales message in a fashion that will work because it is timeless. "It's very hard for advertisers to keep up with consumers today," says Hughes. "Consumers build for tresses. Advertisers try to break them down. And consumers build up ever-stronger ones."
The techniques that have ruled ad-making over the last two decades are falling by the wayside as advertisers and their agencies come to grips with consumers' increasing sophistication about and resistance to advertising.
And many of the creative solutions we are seeing point toward an advertising that will likely be more arty, subdued, and intelligent than ever before. A kinder and gentler advertising.
The fact is we are supersaturated by advertising. Just consider the teeming media environment in which advertising reaches us - what the industry refers to as "clutter." Experts calculate that we're exposed to as many as six hundred advertising messages each day in the form of television and radio commercials, newspaper and magazine ads, yellow pages, product packaging, point-of-purchase displays, coupons, direct mail, posters, billboards, and transit signs.
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