Thursday, June 28, 2018

Advertising - The crux of marketing and brand identity


‘If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.’

This famous saying was coined by the father of advertising, David Ogilvy decades ago. Yet it is still applicable in the modern days. Newspaper, Magazines, Television, Radio and now digital media; today consumers are increasingly exposed to these mediums used by brands to market their respective products. There is no secret that the media plays a pivotal role in marketing the products out there. Yet the power of creativity or shall we say originality is something that can’t be neglected at all.

Creativity makes the brand’s message effective. And the most effective message is the one that convinces consumer to try the product or brand for once. To give that much needed creative thrust to a brand or product such that its sales shoot up; this is where an advertising agency comes into the picture.

In the last couple of decades many advertising agencies have established in Mumbai. For any leading advertising agency in Mumbai, the challenge to get down into creative output is four-pronged. The process initiates with analyzing the market and observing overall trends. Next, understanding the psyche of the person the product or brand projected to. Later the evaluation process of what competitor brands in the same space are talking about. Only after this rigor, the agency enters into the concept-creation that builds an interesting story around the brand.

Take an example of any leading advertising agency in Mumbai and you would get to know that there is more to this than what meets the eyes. An agency consists of professional experts that bring years of expertise in brand-building and creating strong brand identity. Account managers, creative directors, writers, designers; there is an entire team that plays an important role in bringing out the best in a brand or product.

It doesn’t end here. After everything, helping the brand to place ads in the mediums like magazines, newspapers, televisions and radio is another role of an advertising agency. In short, ad agencies have immense knowledge of budget, ads scheduling, result-oriented mediums and other important know-hows of advertising.

Dum laga ke haisha, Chal meri Luna, Humara Bajaj, Sabki pasand Nirma and many more slogans like these have helped the brands to create their distinctive identities in the market. Due to these effective messages only, the brands have been able to penetrate themselves into the mind of consumer with great recall value.