CREATIVE STRATEGY: VW's Polo campaign goes from strength to strength
14 Jun 2012 | by Simon S Kershaw
This film hit a nerve. Well, actually not "hit" so much as moved, tickled and embraced. This film being the latest TV commercial for VW Polo.
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Back in the age when I could still remember the taste of semolina - we're talking the 80's - we were young, foolhardy and had the world in front of us. All we had to do was to carry on being our brilliant selves and we would be rich and famous.
This film hit a nerve. Well, actually not "hit" so much as moved, tickled and embraced. This film being the latest TV commercial for VW Polo.
Your reviewer is back in Blighty after recently touring Australia. Given the outrageous scale of the place, much driving was involved.
Ad agencies have always had a penchant for ripping off films, whether Hollywood blockbusters or student projects.
The former global chief marketing officer at Unilever, a Cannes festival regular, casts a sceptical eye on last month's celebrity-laden event and its client and agency attendees.
Copy, eh? It's a bugger and no mistake. Should we even bother? A few years ago, one advertising luminary declared, basically, that all press ads should be 48-sheet posters. No more perfectly penned paragraphs, but five words or less.
Humour has to be one of advertising's most potent weapons. We could all do with a laff. And when brands bring us a smile, we're prepared to spend more time in their company and grow to like them.
Some people really to know how to push all my buttons, writes Simon Kershaw.
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