The Creative Process
"Breakthrough creative" describes an ad or commercial that is especially innovative or daring. Some agencies build their reputations on this kind of advertising. Hal Riney & Partners, with its widely admired Bartles & James wine cooler advertising, among other campaigns, has been one of them. "Hal Riney's patent mixture of small town realism and shrewdly soft wit are redefining a business known previously for its hard-sell tactics and its obsession with market research," a writer for The New York Times Magazine noted in 1986.Hal Riney: the man whose advertising, some say, put Ronald Reagan in the White House.
But "First and foremost, advertising is a business," observes Steven C. Kopcha, chief creative officer of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowes. "And when we talk about creativity, what we really mean is applied creativity. An ad has to cause something to happen in the market place -stimulate interest in a product, influence attitudes, make people buy.”
"An advertisement can't just entertain. That's what novelists and tap dancers are for.'
In his Advertising Realities, Wes Perrin tells how creativity helped a German chain saw manufacturer, Sachs-Dolmar, line up dealers in a trade magazine ad. The ad pretended to include a coupon, but actually the ad was preprinted with a die-cut to eliminate the coupon. With "editorial matter" printed on the reverse side, the ad, on regular stock, was then bound into the magazine. Readers thought someone had gotten to the magazine before they did, and stormed the advertiser with questions and requests. "The several hundred leads obtained became the basis for setting up the client's U.S. Dealer network."
Steven Penchina, executive creative director of Ketchum Advertising, says "We've been preoccupied with how [advertising] looks rather than what it says. We've substituted technique for concept, production values for ideas, implicitness for explicitness, glitzy camera angles and quick cuts for innovative thinking." As a result, he says, advertising all looks the same.
"We need to come to the realization that execution is not a substitute for a powerful idea." Penchina asks where the advertising is today to match the advertising of the 1960s and 1970s produced by agencies like Carl Ally, Inc.; Doyle Dane Bernbach; Wells, Rich, Green; Tinker; Scalli, McCabe; Needham; and Leo Burnett. These agencies "had the ability to come up with intrusive, innovative, provocative and memorable ideas that were so powerful you couldn't forget them, even if you tried…. And they created warm, human, emotional campaigns that seemed to last forever." He mentions, among others, the campaigns sponsored by Volkswagen, Avis, Braniff, and IBM.
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