How Facebook knows that I need a Blue kurta!!!

It was just a week before my friend Arun’s marriage that I logged into a well known ethnic wear online store for a kurta. After searching for a while I slipped into an afternoon siesta. After waking up, sipping my evening tea I logged in to Facebook . It was then when I was glancing through my Facebook timeline, a blue kurta caught my attention. Surprisingly it was an Ad sponsored by the same retailer, whose online store I was searching in the morning.

  

I was intrigued and out of curiosity, I searched about Facebook Ads. The more I researched, the more I got fascinated by Facebook ads. It’s a very powerful tool for sending the exact message to a targeted segment or even a single customer. If it comes to demographics, who else can provide you credible and real time data than Facebook (even more accurate than the Census data !! ;) )

 A builder when he places an Ad of an upcoming project, can target all people who live around a 50 km radius to the city. He can also segment further based on the age, Lifestyle, work and other interests of people in that locality. Facebook even provides user an option to set his/her ad preferences which he/she would like to see in their timelines.

  

Facebook also helps a marketer to re-target their customers. When I log in to an online Kurta store, information about me is collected via cookies and the pages I visited are also tracked and recorded. When I close the session without making a purchase, the marketer of the kurta store starts targeting their ‘lost customer’. A  Demand side platform,DSP enables advertisers, agencies and ad networks to buy display impressions across multiple ad exchanges using single interface. Facebook has a real time bidding FBX which sells the advertising inventory (ad spaces are nothing but your fb timeline and the right bottom corner of your facebook page) DSP of Online kurta store will bid with FBX for showing ads to their lost customer when he/she logs in to Facebook. DSPs share necessary data to Facebook to identify the person. When the person logs in to Facebook, Facebook informs DSPs and will bid for displaying ad. Ads will be shown to user on winning the bid(Real time bidding transactions typically happen within 100 milliseconds from the moment the ad exchange receives the request.)

Facebook Ads are either shown in the right column (domain Ad) or in the news feed. Facebook released a new Ad Format called Multi-product ad which can be extremely useful for all the eCommerce advertisers looking to promote multiple products from their store.

Amul Girl

                                             

There are certain brands whose identity is incomplete without their mascot.But there are very few other brands whose identity itself is their Mascot. When we hear the name Amul,first thing that comes to our mind is the round eyed chubby cheeked girl dressed in her little polka dotted dress.

You will be amazed to hear that Amul is running this Ad campaign for the last 50 years and its the World's longest running campaign ever

Amul Girl was born on 1967 when  Dr Varghese Kurien the chairman of the Gujarat Co- Operative Milk Marketing Federation limited(GCMMF) decided to give their account to an advertising agency called Advertising and Sales Promotion(ASP) to work on their ad campaign.

V.Kurien suggested a mischievous girl mascot with two requirements.It had to be easy to draw and should be memorable as most of the advertising would be in outdoor media, which required hand painting.Sylvester da Cunha , then managing director of the agency along with Eustace Fernandez , art  director decided to create something that could grab the attention of housewife in the country who were their target audience.They came up with Amul girl as a rival to the polson butter girl.

A year after the launch of Amul girl Sylvester decided to give a solid concept to ads to get an extra mileage. In 1969 when Hare Rama Hare Krishna Movement began in Mumbai, the creative team of Da cunha came up with clincher - "Hurry Amul, Hurry Hurry" which was welcomed by Mumbaikaars. From then to now Amul girl is playing the role of "Social Observer".Be it Cricket,Bollywood, Politics , Natural calamities or any other issues of national interest, Amul ensures it'
s included in its very next Ad

Despite changing times and the advent of technology , the simple Amul campaign still spread smoothly on billboards and continues to capture the imagination of a new India through frequent shares on Social media websites

Marlboro Man (1955 )

Advertisement Campaigns are designed to achieve a specific goal(s) like establishing a brand, raising brand awareness, increasing the rate of conversions/sales etc.

Leo Burnett of Leo Burnett Worldwide created one such campaign in 1955 which is still considered as one of the most successful and Brilliant Advertisement campaigns of the world - Marlboro Man !!

Marlboro wanted to re position their filter cigarettes as men's cigarette which was otherwise considered as Women's cigarette. Marlboro Man transformed the Marlboro brand from a mild ladies' cigarette into a rugged, ultra-masculine accessory. The campaign was proposed to present a line up of Manly figures which included Cowboys , sea captains, weightlifters, war correspondents, construction workers, etc to create a masculine brand image for Marlboro. The cowboy was in first in this series which was inspired by an issue of Life Magazine ( published photograph and story of Texas cowboy Clarence Hailey Long).

 This Advertisement campaign was a huge success that resulted in significantly improving sales. Market share of Marlboro rose from less than one percent to the fourth best selling brand in a short span of a year and increased sales by 300% in two years.This result made them to drop other "Manly Figures" and to stick with the Cow boy

Initially Marlboro man was featured by models , which later was replaced by real cowboys as Burnett felt lack of authenticity when it was represented by models.