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...
It seems strange, but inanimate objects can sometimes make for compelling characters. Then again, sometimes they can’t. To illustrate this, we have two campaigns — one from Sherwin Williams, one from IKEA — that have recently released ads in which...
Every year, the marketing world goes bananas over the Super Bowl ads, and every year, the game is punctuated by a slew of over-the-top, creative-for-creativity’s-sake commercials with dubious marketing value. But there are always at least a couple that cut...
If there’s one thing we love, it’s a good story based on human emotions. In the sentence above, the word “we” doesn’t just refer to us at Kleber & Associates. It refers to all of us as human beings. Real, emotional stories are what...
