Advertising

Download or read book Advertising written by George Felton and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A time-tested text, George Felton? Advertising: Concept and Copy, Second Edition, is an innovative approach to advertising creativity. It covers the entire conceptual process, from developing smart strategy to executing it with strong ads?rom what to say to how to say it. Part 1, Strategies, operates on the premise that the idea beneath an ad? surface determines its success. This first section shows how to research products, understand consumer behavior, analyze audiences, and navigate marketplace realities, then how to write creative briefs that focus this strategic analysis into specific advertising objectives. Part 2, Executions, explains how to put strategies into play. It discusses the tools at a copywriter? command, from the elements of print advertising?eadlines, visuals, body copy?o the wide variety of media and advertising genres available to advertisers. But creating great executions is never easy. So Part 3, the Toolbox, gives advice about how to think creatively, then presents an array of problem-solving tools, a series of techniques that advertisers have used repeatedly to produce exceptional work. In brief, this book shows how to find strong selling ideas, then how to express them in fresh, memorable, persuasive ways. Over 200 ads, many in color, demonstrate the strong thinking and writing that underlie the best advertising. This Second Edition features new sections on guerrilla advertising, interactive media, international and multicultural advertising, and postmodern advertising, as well as more material on the art of headlines, theme lines, slogans, and naming. Advertising: Concept and Copy is the most comprehensive text in its field, combining substantial discussion of both strategy and technique with an emphasis on the craft of writing not found elsewhere. It is truly a writer's copywriting text.