Beatballaballa.com is an audience based structure and workplace for Munich garage bands including their friends and followers to establish and publish a vinyl sampler endowed by Alfred Steinau. It is curated by the bands and their friends and followers in a truly DIY fashion.
37 years after „Reifenwechsel leicht gemacht” (changing tires made easy), a punk/new wave sampler dealt with as legendary, its successor forms up with the help of joyous Munich folks.
German tea company Meßmer introduces new package design with help from Hamburg agency St. Brand.
What appears as if these two ladies were mocking other ladies with an obvious botox facelift turns out that two ladies are surprised and delighted to see their favorite tea in a new all-blue package.
The new all-blue package design falls a bit short in the tvc, so I am showing it here in all its beauty.
Why do creatives and marketing executives shy away from making it easy on consumers to learn the brand name and reach for its product? Don’t they want people to learn their brand name and make it easy for them to reach for the product?
It won’t need to be at the disadvantage of the narrative. Not even the plot. -Or- Sit tight now, forget the plot in favor of learning the brand name and product.
Recommendation to advertisers: „Display your brand mark or product permanent throughout the full length of your expensive commercial.“
In five years, Zalando has become a European paradigm for garage start-ups
Zalando is a huge success in the fashion merchandise business. A Berlin start-up that outgrew its beginnings in the basement with packing a few fashion-labels up for delivery to a mainstay mail-order business in breathtaking speed. Much like Amazon, they were soon criticized for their treatment of logistics employees, aside from fostering cooperations with a slingshot, hack week, and an innovation lab.
By no means, does Zalando want to be in a category of mail order businesses but wants to stand out as a young fashion label. The mainstream breakthrough occurred with the very first television campaign in Germany featuring people scream their heads off or should we say screaming in the face of the audience. A screaming success nevertheless by ad agency Jung von Matt: ’Schrei vor Glück‘ (scream with joy).
Today Zalando follows the tendencies other big brands are following with a focus on being liked and getting likes. See featured Togetherness campaign. One widespread tendency you can observe on tv is the leaving behind of action thrills in favor of observing human behavior. Zalando also places bets on youth marketing.
We’ll see how the togetherness of mainstream and youth marketing will work out.
