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The 9 most creative social media ads I've collected this week:

1. World Wildlife Foundation Image
2. Oats Overnight

Principle: Turning Sh*t into Sugar

Oats ran an ad with hilarious bad reviews.

They close with the tagline: "Find out why 1 million happy customers disagree".
3. CRAFTD

Principle: Meme announcement > Boring sale announcement Image
4. Ryze

Principle: User interface hacking

This looks like the customer's to do list -- and then they realise it's an ad.

Bonus point: Notice how they left the time and battery to make it extra realistic. Image
5. Theragun

Principle: The Group Chat

"If you want to put your marketing on steroids, reverse engineer it from the group chat message you want people to send" - @george__mack Image
6. Finimize

Principle: Ride waves

Threads was a cultural meme in everyone's conversation.

Finimize rode the wave and started running Threads as ads. Image
7. Happy Tuesdays

Principle: The Red Pill

Neo -- do you want the blue pill or the red pill? Image
8. Athletic Greens

Principle: Classical conditioning

Your brain sees this screen and wants to take action. Image
9. Ryan Reynolds - HP

Principle: Let the creatives be creative

If HP wrote a boring script for them to read, it would've got 0.1% the engagement this advert got.
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Jul 28
The 10 most creative ads I've collected this week:

1. Nescafe Image
2. Innocent

Principle: Ride Waves

Innocent launched this ad whilst Apple was announcing their new iPhone.

Let your ads ride the wave of topical events. Image
3. KitKat

Principle: User Interface Hacking

Looks like a Google calendar that their brain sees everyday -- and then you realise it's an advert. Image
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Jul 26
The 9 most creative TikTok ads I've collected this week:

1. Kind Bar - "Everyone Gets Hungry"
2. Sling TV
Principle: The challenge hook

"I spent 8 days moving 12,716 blades of grass"

TikTok audience loves a challenge with specific numbers in the hook.
3. Aveeno

Principle: ASMR

Aveeno taking advantage of ASMR trend in their advertising.
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Jul 21
The 9 most creative social media ads I've collected this week:

1. Liquid Death Image
2. Morning Brew

Principle: Show Them The Future

Compare your innovation to the legacy competition Image
3. The Ice Pod

Principle: Meta Marketing

Being out of ideas can be the idea. Image
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Jul 19
I collect ads like billionaires collect passports

The 10 most creative ads I've collected this week: Image
2. The Beetles vs The Beatles

Principle: The ultimate play on words

The Beetles (car company) re-created The Beatles (band) album cover.

Genius. Image
2. Durex

Principle: Present the opportunity cost

You can buy a condom -- or you can buy a dummy for your baby. Image
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Jul 12
The 10 most creative ads I've collected this week:

1. Luxor Highlighters
2. Bumble

Principle: Stack the memes

Meme 1 = "Life is too short"

Meme 2 = "Binge watching Harry Potter"

Stack those memes -- and then sell your product.
3. Fit4Less

Principle: Zig where others zag

There's so much brand safety in 2023.

Stand out by doing the opposite.
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Jul 11
Do you know who spends the most on advertising globally?

Meet the top 25 spenders... Image
25th place = PepsiCo

• Amount spent = $3 billion
• Revenue = $86.39 billion
• Revenue : Marketing ratio = 28.8x Image
24th place = Nike

• Amount spent - $3.85 billion
• Revenue = $46.7 billion
• Revenue : Marketing = 12.1x Image
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