“2″ – Useful quotes – Craig Davis

Stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in.

Craig Davis, JWT Chief Creative Officer, 2005.

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Why talking about “brand content” is useless ?

For several years, people talk more and more about content and brand content. I think people should be more precise.

  1. Content means so many things that you can say anything you want. A TV-spot on YouTube, a CD, a photo on Flickr, even a comment… anything is content!
  2. In most of the cases, content is just an adaptation for Internet of what marketing departments did before.
  3. That’s why most of brand contents have no particular objectives, they’re just here to remind what the brands wanted to tell you before but you don’t care.
  4. Indeed nobody cares because there are too many contents that no one is able to read and watch everything, it’s the same way mass media are less and less effective, they’re too many.

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However, more and more professionals agree the quality of the content is the key…

More than this essential quality, to be remarkable and sharable, I think it’s the utility of the content that matters.

#13 – JDate – Someone to zip you up

Who ?

JDate is a famous online dating service in Israël.

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What’s the utility ?

For Jewish Valentine’s day, the jDate agency, McCann Erickson, with Mango, the famous Spanish fashion brand, added some clever labels to allow their customers to zip themselves and discover the jDate offer.

Ok this is brand utility mixed up with advertising and this is a great application of context marketing as well (to know more about context marketing have a look here here). I just wanted to write a quick post about it to show that brand utility can be applied in many many situations. You don’t need to make huge things to succeed, just be relevant and really useful…