Monday, January 12, 2015

Flying shirts IKEA ad, Aaron Paul's dream job & Better Call Nidge?!!




Make Storage exciting!
I love the new IKEA ad – maybe I need to go out more!  Seriously, I imagine that the power of imagination was tested with the brief to their ad agency – make an ad about storage that stops people in their tracks!   The result – The Joy of Storage – has a John Lewis-like feel to it and you find yourself empathising with flying shirts as they fly ‘home’!
And interesting to see that no matter who you are, you have to listen to and understand what your customers want - bed sales in the UK for IKEA shot up once they introduced smaller sized beds than the standard European sizes.  Wonder have they done the same here?

Meths Distributor – your dream job?!
So is your dream job to be a meths distributor/cook?!  I was a big Breaking Bad fan and think Aaron Paul was brilliant as Jesse Pinkman – but kind of a strange choice to front the Budweiser Dream Job campaign?  Or maybe not – he has massive ‘street’ appeal (if you’ll pardon the pun) for the target audience and has a whiff of danger about him – from his BB role!  Certainly his choice as Ambassador sends the campaign into the stratosphere from a profile point of view.

Better Call Nidge ?
Listen up Stuart Carolan or anyone attempting that difficult ‘second album’ – if Stuart does produce a spin-off of Love/Hate,  he might well keep a close eye on how the creators of Breaking Bad spin-off ‘Better Call Saul’ succeed or otherwise with their new show.  They’ve set the series in pre-BB times to help it stand alone.  ‘Frasier’ did it post-Cheers – but they moved the character to a different city so it was easier.  Either way, no doubt Stuart might have to field the same questions as  ‘Saul’ creators -  constantly being asked if stars from their original massively successful series will feature in the new one!



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