Good Old Fashioned Waste...
A few years ago, when Cadbury launched 'Bournville', they had some really expensive ads all over town.
I remember that Cadbury even rented out the most expensive hoarding in India (at least till I kept track) called Patel Bridge - On the juncture of Marine Drive and Chowpatty (Mumbai)
Image Courtesy - afaqs
This campaign was a signature case of what I had called 'Good Old Fashioned Waste'
Why?
For the simple reason that the Bournville product was NOT AVAILABLE for WEEKS even after the ads had hit the market!
The shopkeepers around Peddar Road (where I stay) were particularly annoyed.
They said, "Sir, we don't know why Cadbury releases ads like this. All the time we are turning away customers...."
Of course, the hoarding guys, the ad agencies and the media channels had a good, rollicking time!
They made money - without a care if the product sold or not!
(classical advertising industry disease).
Today, I saw the same example repeat itself online.
This is a tweet that started it all:
Wow! I said, this sounds like fun.
I was still conservative and went to google to make sure that I had all my options.
This is what I found:
The ad made the twitter conversation seem concrete.
So, I CLICKED on the ad and came to this page on Flipkart:
Sure, there were 2 iPad Minis that were available, but who was interested in these basic versions (without 3G)?? (Probably that's the reason why these models were not selling)
Another, great, classic example of "Good Old Fashioned Waste..."
I mean, THINK:
- Why advertise on the top of Google and pay for clicks when you don't have the goods?
- Unlike Hoardings and TVCs that CAN'T BE STOPPED or rolled back, why CONTINUE to run CPC ads when they can be switched off???
The answer to the question is to PONDER about what's common between Cadbury and Flipkart.com
LOTS OF MONEY to waste I guess....!!!!
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Tags: Bournville, Cadbury India, Flipkart.com, Google ads, Ipad Mini India
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Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Alok 'Rodinhood' Kejriwal on -
and that means that FK keeps funding google's coffers?
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Permalink Reply by Ashutosh Tiwary on -
I agree to some extent however, these are Flipkart pay for clicks and cadbury, both seem completely different scenarios to me.
Flipkart used iPad Mini as a search hook to get users to the site. It's one of the better hooks and why not. No user goes to a site, checks ipad Mini is out of stock and closes the website, Alok (of course, most of them won't). The idea is to get people to the site. It's like visiting a mall. You go with a list, you buy your stuff but still, you end up doing some impulse purchases. That's why Amazon advertises. That's why Flipkart advertises. having even ONE iPad Mini makes the ad technically correct and having 10 purchases of DIFFERENT items makes the ad budget worth it.
Bournville may be a promotion budget but more so, i think, they missed the logistics and marketing synchronization!
My 2 paise
Ashutosh
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Permalink Reply by Jitendra Gursingh (Stuffcool) on -
Google has a massive setup in India and are earning crazy money with this e comm boom! Nevertheless it's not like they are sitting on their laurels..their adwords search and display network is a virtual monopoly; n tracking & managing ads is quite comprehensive but easy to understand.
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