Old Navy’s ‘It’s Old Navy’: When Nostalgia Meets Value
There’s a particular art to making affordable feel aspirational. Old Navy has been practising it for decades — and their Summer 2026 campaign, “It’s Old …
ARTOTEL Rockstar Status: How a Boutique Hotel Brand Punched All the Way to Best of Show.
ARTOTEL is not a household name outside Southeast Asia. It’s an Indonesian boutique hotel group — art-focused, design-led, independent. The kind of brand that most …
Bumble Bet on Realness When the Category Was Running on Fake.
Dating apps have a marketing problem that is also, at its core, a product problem. They need to convince you that their platform leads to …
Lurpak Didn’t Sell Butter. It Sold the Act of Cooking.
There’s a Lurpak ad from 2013 where a voice intones over close-up shots of eggs cracking, dough being punched, and butter melting in a hot …
Vaseline: Let the Internet Write the Brief
In March 2025, Vaseline’s marketing team did something that most brand managers would find professionally terrifying: they handed the creative brief to TikTok. Not literally. …
LEGO Didn’t Sell Bricks. It Sold a Feeling About the Future.
In 2019, LEGO launched its first global brand campaign in 30 years. The film — a live-action adventure set in a painted-up Chilean city, starring …
Andrex “Get Comfortable”: How a Toilet Roll Brand Made the Office Poo a Cultural Moment
Some brands chase “talkability” like it’s a KPI you can buy in bulk. Andrex took the opposite route: it found a truth that was already …
Ba Da Ba Ba Baa: How McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” Became the World’s Most Recognised Jingle
In the autumn of 2003, McDonald’s was in trouble. The company had just recorded its first-ever quarterly financial loss, fast food was increasingly under attack …
Togs, Togs, Undies! How a 300-Meter Rule Defined the New Zealand Summer and Advertising History
In the high-stakes world of advertising, brands often spend millions trying to craft the “perfect” message—something profound, aspirational, or technologically groundbreaking. But in 2006, Tip …
Just Call Apeldoorn: The Forty-Year Comedy of Errors That Built a Brand
Somewhere in the Netherlands, a man is about to make a terrible mistake. He’s about to back his car through a garden fence, set his …