The stakes in Real Estate have never been higher. And that’s creating a feverish competition of creative one-upmanship among some key players… including RE/MAX, Rocket Mortgage, and now Zillow. In the old days, the ad wars were reserved for the...
Earlier this year we were highly critical of ADT’s Super Bowl ads, which featured HGTV personalities Adam and Drew Scott (aka “The Property Brothers”). Perhaps we should have held our criticism in abeyance while they rolled out the rest of the...
Our old friends Sears are in the news again. Having, against all odds, staved off bankruptcy, the venerable challenger home improvement retailer is trying to build a new brand image and distance itself from its troubled past. And what do you do when you want to...
What was wrong with Elizabeth Banks? It’s a question we find ourselves asking Realtor.com (not that they’d answer) after seeing their new “Unreal” series of ads. If you don’t remember, Realtor.com retained the services of actress...
Well, another Super Bowl is behind us, and with it are all of the over-thought, dubiously strategic, creative-for-creativity’s-sake commercials. As with every year, the time between the on-field action (such as it was) was filled with gems and duds in almost...
If there’s one thing we find especially irksome, it’s when companies issue press releases announcing the unveiling of “a new branding campaign.” Outside the marketing and advertising industry, nobody cares about these announcements. Yet...
