As “Taken” is one of my favourite movies of the last couple of years… …”Unknown” featuring Liam Neeson in an action-hero role was guaranteed to grab my attention! Here’s the trailer… Let’s see how it stacks up against our trailer effectiveness criteria…
Marketing And Movie Trailers – The King’s Speech
Been a while since my last “Marketing And Movie Trailers” post… …and as I’ve been to the movies a couple of times recently… (to see “The King’s Speech” and “The Black Swan”, since you ask) …thought it was time for another. “The King’s Speech” is attracting widespread praise and picking up numerous awards. Thoroughly deserved […]
Emotional Direct Response Meerkating?!?
The great Drayton Bird, direct response marketing and copywriting maven par excellence, recently held a free webinar for his subscribers. The topic was the “10 Best Ads Of The Last 10 Years”. The ads were selected primarily on the basis of how effective they were and the results they produced. One of the ads (campaign, […]
Farewell To A Great Modern Pitch Man – Billy Mays
Sad…shocked really…to hear the news of the death of Billy Mays on June 28. I confess that living in Australia and not watching a great deal of TV, I was not familiar with Billy and his ads until recently. When I started to look more closely at marketing with video, the name Billy Mays came […]
Marketing Anniversary – Sony Walkman 30 Years
Meant to post about this yesterday, but got sidetracked. Anyway… …30 years ago yesterday on 1 July 1979… …the very first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan. This really was a breakthrough product in how people could choose to listen to music. Sure there had been portable transistor radios before…