Brilliant Ads: Marshall, Tesco, Pizza Hut


Brilliant Ads This Week

Marshall, Tesco, Pizza Hut & more.


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Ad Professor Original: Marshall

Here's an ad I made for Marshall...


Great Ad: Tesco

🧪 Principle: The Emotional Play

Turn a product feature into emotion.

You're not selling trousers, you're selling future memories with their children.


Great Ad: Rockaxis Chile

🧪 Principle: The UI/Real Life Overlay

Merge your product UI into the real world.

This ad plays on the visual format of a music player overlay, but instead of a phone screen, it's real life.


Social Media Ad: Meet–Ting

🧪 Principle: Use Their Feature Against Them

AI scheduling assistant, Meet-Ting, just used Calendly's own unsubscribe QR Code in their ad.

For bonus points, they added their own subscribe link.

Brilliant.


Social Media Ad: Pizza Hut

🧪 Principle: Hijack Cultural Moments

Turn someone else's news (Ronaldo's engagement) into your own

moment to shine: "Impossible to say no" to Pizza Hut.


Great Video Ad: Itsu

🧪 Principle: The Nostalgia Hit

We live with Vine / Meme nostalgia. Find one that resonates with your

target audience and use it to promote your product.

Itsu hired the famous Wealdstone FC fan, The Wealdstone Raider, who went viral in 2014, to promote their dim sum.

The video received over 6M views on TikTok in under a week and ended up all over the news.

Full ad here.


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