Here’s a Twist: Using A Dead Celebrity. The 2 Guyz On Marketing teach that we live in a celebrity-crazed culture. Londre recently found an ad for the Centers for Disease Control using deceased Leonard Nimoy, best know…
In the year of their 30th anniversary for the watershed “Just Do It” campaign, Nike aired a new 90 second spot “Dream Crazier”. Serena Williams narrates the moving spot that depicts woman after woman, girl after girl,…
The game was close. Defenses dominated. Scoring was low. Lowest in Super Bowl history. And so were the ratings. Lowest in a decade. ,TV spots cost the most in history, up to $5.3M per :30 and that…
Welcome to the first annual Baddie Awards. Baddies awarded by the 2 GUYZ On Marketing are simply unbelievable, inappropriate, lacking authenticity, bad, and/or horrible efforts in any area of marketing. It can be a concept, creative, production…
The 2 Guyz on Marketing just finished comparing notes on Papa John’s John Schlatter, who’s been in the news with racial slurs, fights with NFL, bouts with MLB, and decreasing sales at Papa John’s stores. Papa John’s,…
Did you hear that Gerber has a new spokesperson or, in this case, a new spokesbaby, an 18-month-old with Down Syndrome? What do the 2 Guyz On Marketing look for in spokespersons or celebrities? Why use a…
Maybe it’s the Product, a critical part of marketing. But the Grammys…simply not a great show. A million reasons not to continuing to watch the Grammys this week. I know a friend who posted she watched 30…
The 2 Guyz On Marketing live and grew up in California. Born, educated, trained in advertising and teach in California. It’s what we do. It’s what we love. Over the years we hadn’t seen too many Sonic®…
With advertising, promotion and PR examples, as one of the two Marketing Guyz, Larry feels Smirnoff Vodka’s promotional campaign, using print and TV, is trying to create buzz. Smirnoff is using two directions of an advertising campaign….
