THE CREATIVE FIELDBOOK / SNS MEDIA TECH
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Avis
convert a truthful competitive limitation into a concrete obligation to serve customers better.
Give customers a reason to choose a smaller car-rental competitor. Use only a limitation that affects how customers evaluate the offer.
UPS
use a genuine service relationship to make a large operational brand human through a relevant, arranged experience.
Express the human meaning of delivery through a relevant wish. Look for meaningful service encounters rather than manufacturing an unrelated emotional premise.
Halifax
make an employee’s distinctive ability a recognisable brand asset while preserving the difference between real employment and staged endorsement.
Give Halifax a distinctive, approachable public personality. Invite participation without making public performance an employment expectation.
De Beers
connect a credible material property to a human aspiration while recognising how advertising can shape social expectations.
Give diamonds a lasting symbolic role in relationship rituals. Begin with something the product genuinely is or does.
Nando’s South Africa
A rule of exclusion is visualised until its absurd consequences reveal the case for inclusion.
Connect a varied menu with an inclusive brand stance. Check whether short excerpts reverse the intended meaning.
Carling Black Label
A sponsor gives supporters a real, bounded decision in an event they already care about.
Make football sponsorship participatory. Let participation change something visible and meaningful.
Castle Lager
A brewing by-product becomes a useful second product that makes community contribution tangible.
Make community contribution concrete. Establish the existing destination before claiming waste reduction.
Safaricom
A coordinated choir across a national landscape makes connection visible as a shared human pattern.
Express national connection and anniversary identity. Let repeated actions show connection instead of relying only on a slogan.
Tata Motors
A product’s narrow price identity is challenged through a colourful world of varied young achievers.
Reposition Nano beyond affordability. Build the new identity on benefits customers can experience.
Absolut Vodka
create a repeatable advertising language by fixing a recognisable product shape and a concise headline rule.
Give a distinctive bottle a recognisable identity in a crowded spirits category. Define which visual asset and language pattern must remain recognisable.
California Milk Processor Board
make a habitual product salient by showing a familiar occasion disrupted by its absence.
Make milk relevant as an easily overlooked part of familiar eating occasions. Begin with a situation where the product already performs a useful role.
Energizer
personify a product benefit through a repeatable behaviour that crosses familiar media boundaries.
Make battery endurance recognisable through a distinctive character behaviour. Define a behaviour that expresses the benefit in every execution.