It’s hard to tout a golf course without lots of beauty shots at sunset/rise…at least that was the popular thinking. Do that, we reasoned, and run the risk of looking like every other golf course in that most-crucial of settings, in the media. So our crack creatives came up with a spoof of a then-popular Tiger Woods spot that used humor to garner consideration among Washington D.C.’s golfing community…not to mention garnering a Best of Show in the D.C. Addy’s that year.
Is it possible to make Human Resources Management interesting? Or at least to set apart one company offering those services from the others? Once again, a great client bought into the need to truly use advertising for all its worth, and actually say something in a relevant and creative way. They, and we, didn’t assume people were just dying to read their ad copy. So we made them, by designing in-your-face ads that put into human terms the problems plaguing it prospective customers.
Hillsborough County, Florida had seen and loved our “I Don’t Recycle” work for Georgia, and asked us for a headline or two telling people where to request a bin. We saw an opportunity to do more, and enlisted some well-known bins for our Famous Bins campaign…which we grew into a contest whereby residents visited a web site to enter the latest Famous Bin they had spied, with the hopes of grabbing one of several prizes. More than just a county-sponsored message for free bins, we improved their visibility, while keeping recycling top of mind…where it should be.