Geoffrey Frost, Director of Global Advertising, Nike Inc.
Jane Newman, Partner, Director of Strategic Planning, Merkley, Newman, Harty.
Rob White, Director of Planning, Fallon McElligott
David Wheldon, President, BBDO Europe.
Rick Boyko, President, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather, New York.
Kurzbeschreibung
Synopsis
Der Autor über sein Buch
Jon Steel is Director of Account Planning and Vice Chairman at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, the ad agency that created the witty and memorable "Got Milk?" campaign for the California Milk Processors, as well as great ads for Polaroid, Porshe, Nike, Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch, and Hewlett-Packard. This book shows how account planners have become a key component to campaign development...account planning is the most significant change in the advertising industry in the last 30 years. Account planning requires equal part researcher, account executive, creative, and surrogate customer. Planners can get into consumers' minds and discover how they relate to particular brands, products, and categories. This book describes some of the techniques of finding real consumer insights and suggests that simplicity, creativity, and common sense are the most important ingredients for success.
From the Inside Flap
Despite this enthusiasm, account planning remains shrouded in mystery. Is it, a Chiat suggested, merely a tool for attracting new clients? Or is it, as many critics have suggested, no more than traditional consumer research dressed up in new clothes? In the first book devoted exclusively to the subject of account planning in the United States, Jon Steel, Vice Chairman and Director of Account Planning for San Francisco advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, argues that it is neither of these things.
Account planning exists for the sole purchase of creating advertising that truly connects with consumers. While many in the industry are still dissecting consumer behavior, extrapolating demographic trends, developing complex behavioral models, and measuring Pavlovian salivary responses, Steel advocates an approach to consumer research that is based on simplicity, common sense, and creativity - an approach that gains access to consumer's hearts and minds, develops ongoing relationships with them, and, most important, embraces them as partners in the process of developing advertising.
A witty, erudite raconteur and teacher, Steel describes how successful account planners work in partnership with clients, consumers, and agency creatives. He criticizes research practices that, far from creating relationships, drive a wedge between agencies and the people they aim to persuade; he suggests new ways of approaching research to cut through the BS and get people to show their true selves; and he shows how the right research, when translated into a motivating and inspiring brief, can be the catalyst for great creative ideas. He draws upon his own experiences and those of colleagues in the United States and abroad to illustrate those points, and includes examples of some of the most successful campaigns in recent years, including Polaroid, Norwegian Cruise Linee, Porsche, Isuzu, "got milk?" and others.
The message of their book is that well-thought-out account planning results in better, more effective marketing and advertising for both agencies and clients. And also makes an evening in front of the television easier to bear for the population at large.
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"A very smart, very funny look at what works, what doesn't, and why, in the sometimes maddening, sometimes inspiring business of advertising. One of the brightest books about the subject in a long, long time."-- Geoffrey Frost, Director of Global Advertising, Nike Inc.
"Jon Steel is one of the top five account planners in the world. The depth and breadth of this book reflects his vast personal experience and exceptional talent. It's not just a great book about account planning, it's a great book about advertising."-- Jane Newman, Partner, Director of Strategic Planning, Markley, Newman, Harty
"The beauty of this book is that it discusses the theories and practice of one of the brightest minds in advertising today, yet never loses its irreverent tone. It's a great book for the advertising industry and a must read for planners."-- Rob White, Director of Planning, Fallong McElligott
"... I was glued to Jon's book. Best practice, common sense, and extraordinary intelligence throughout."-- David Wheldon, President, BBDO Europe
"Jon Steel's book is the perfect insight into a discipline that for some time has been misunderstood, misused, and maligned by most agencies and clients in the U.S. So, run it up the flag pole, put it to groups, check it agains the norms, the answer is the same -- Truth, Lies, and Advertising should be read by anyone who has to make or approve advertising."-- Rick Boyko, President, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather, New York
