Best Ads This Week: IKEA, Spotify, Specsavers


Best Ads This Week

IKEA, Spotify, Specsavers, and more.


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Hello,

It's still holiday season but The Professor never holidays.

Too many ads to see!

Here are the best 6 from the last week:

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Great ad: IKEA

๐Ÿงช Principle: Sell The Magic Moment

Features of a bed = Emotionless

Jumping on a comfy bed after a long day = Magic Moment.

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Great ad: Spotify

๐Ÿงช Principle: Unexpected Connection

Step 1 - Find 2 polar extremes that share a mutual love

Step 2 - Connect them in your ad

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Ad Professor Original: Specsavers

Here's an ad I made...

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Social media ad: Imprint

๐Ÿงช Principle: Like X but for Y

Stand on the shoulders of giants.

It's like the X of X.

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Social media ad: Spacegoods

๐Ÿงช Principle: Sell The Best Of Both Worlds

People think life has good news and bad news.

Create an advert that gives them the good news without the bad news.

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TikTok ad: Mous

๐Ÿงช Principle: Extreme Hook Then Story

Step 1 - Get their attention with the most extreme product benefit

Step 2 - Explain why with the story

Step 3 - Once they've realised it was an ad, they've enjoyed it too much to care.

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