Best Ads This Week: Marvel, Surreal, Marc Jacobs


Best Ads This Week

Marvel, Surreal, Marc Jacobs, & more.


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Hello,

It's time to repeat my favorite saying:

Early to bed, early to rise. Work like hell, and advertise.

Are you ready for the best ads this week?

Let's get into it:

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Great ad: Heinz x Marvel

πŸ§ͺ Principle: Pop Culture Anchoring

Step 1: Find something in pop culture that resembles your product

Step 2: Anchor your product so everyone can't not associate the two.

"Now you can't unsee it"

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Great ad: Surreal

πŸ§ͺ Principle: The Handbrake Turn

Step 1: Grab attention with hyper-specific inside language

Step 2: Do a complete 180 and promote your product instead

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Ad Professor Original: McDonald's McCafe

Here's an ad I made on my coffee break (A McCafΓ© Premium Roast of course)

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Social media ad: RIMOWA

πŸ§ͺ Principle: Event Hijacking

Clever olympics ad from RIMOWA.

Whilst everyone is talking about the olympics, insert yourself into the conversation.

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Social media ad: Avaria Jewellery

πŸ§ͺ Principle: Sell The Search

Step 1 - Find out what customers are searching

Step 2 - Use it in your ad

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TikTok ad: Marc Jacobs

πŸ§ͺ Principle: The best ads don't look like ads

You think it's a cooking ad.

Until it's an ad for a Marc Jacobs Bag.

This ad got 14M views on TikTok.

Watch the full video here.


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