Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Ad-Rule No.9 - The rule of Humor

Only humans laugh.
So what's the insight here?  Well, follow this simple logic: if laughter can make our lives better, and if advertising is persuading us that their products can make life better, then how about making some laughters in advertising? They should work better :)

The rule of Humor tells us that humor can make the viewer like your ad.  Because it requires an actual participation of the viewer, then it is more likely that the viewer can remember it.
Example:

Can you find some more examples and post them here?

3 comments:

衛柏直 said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMSv9L4_DhI

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Thomas Kan said...

Good! And we can see the difference in using humor in different places
Electrolux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsbE8Rv_OL0&NR=1
Mentos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsqtB4K4c4Y&NR=1

mike said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zzoDaioQo&NR=1