Friday, 9 November 2012

A History of Creative Advertising


A History of creative advertising


The beginning by Wight

Robin Wight, created the idea behind the 118 118 adverts

Sunlight Vision, birth of creative advertising



Unilever

Has over 900 brands
William Hesketh Lever, first British tycoon

Lever spent £2m in the first 2 decades of making soap

Lever was one of the first ambient, he used innovative spaces for his advertising.
He had world domination
In the 20th century Lever used different agencies
His achievement wasn’t just getting people to want his products but that they needed his product. 




1851Great Exhibition

Colour printing on a large scale
Photos and 3D technology
Provided the blueprint for the first shopping mall


Pre Packaging (Lewis, 2008)

1860s cereal companies figured out how to print fold and package products mechanically on a industrial scale.



Advertising Boom
·      Advertising aided by tax cuts on newspapers


Printing Boom
·      1890s technology enabled paintings to be reproduced


 Lever Brothers were one of the first multinationals
They used contemporary paintings in there advertising, such as on there soap bar boxes where people would collect the paintings, it was a way of getting expensive contemporary paintings in to the average home.




The New Frock (1889), William Powell Firth
Changed the meaning of a image to sell soap




Alice In Wonderland

A dress rehersal (1888), Albert Chevallier Tayler
   Used As soap advertisement in 1889 (emotional strategy)


Entertainment
BBH (Unilever accounts), lynx advert poster, AXE anarchy 

The first Creative Agencies
Cracknell (2011) late 19c ad agencies


Agencies offered creative services 20c (21st crowd)


First global ads
Soap and medicine

The Wedding Morning
Product placement, soap put in advert

The Queen Of Soaps
People can use the same soap as the queen

Capture the Children
Free gifts for children

Dove are the single biggest user of palm oil, which is bad for the environment. 

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