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Stuff About Advertising
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Приєднався 2 січ 2021
Creative Director giving honest commentary on the advertising industry & an honest effort to help more folks discover a career in it.
I'm here to share the things I wish I knew when I was first getting started in the industry, talk about and analyze ad campaigns, and let you in on the day-to-day life of a CD and copywriter in advertising.
I'm here to share the things I wish I knew when I was first getting started in the industry, talk about and analyze ad campaigns, and let you in on the day-to-day life of a CD and copywriter in advertising.
How to Present Ideas to Creative Director With Confidence
No matter how good your ideas are, the presentation can make or break them. In this video, I'm giving you tips on how to confidently and efficiently present your concepts to your Creative Director so you get a TON of ideas through to the next round.
► Concepting Drills:
THE BEST WAY TO PRACTICE CREATIVE CONCEPTING
Written by the Creative Director and Copywriter behind Stuff About Advertising, these concepting drills will help you improve your idea-generating skills.
With thought-provoking questions and creative prompts, doing a drill is like having a Creative Director working alongside you.
Try one for free here: stuffaboutadvertising.ck.page/sampledrill
Buy a 5-pack of drills here: www.etsy.com/listing/1596059644/creative-concepting-drills-guided-briefs
► Chapters:
00:23 - How many idea you should present
01:16 - Which format to use for presenting creative concepts
01:58 - Example of an idea writeup and title
02:55 - What to say in your presentation and how to improve your delivery
03:32 - Example of a bad presentation and a good presentation
04:46 - Feel more confident in your creative brainstorms with Concepting Drills
► Follow me on TikTok: tiktok.com/@stuffaboutadvertising/
► Follow me on Instagram: stuffaboutadvertising
► Read my favorite books on advertising and creativity: www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-b9d60086/list/GXHFGJGT5D1A?ref_=aipsflist_aipsfinfluencer-b9d60086
► Concepting Drills:
THE BEST WAY TO PRACTICE CREATIVE CONCEPTING
Written by the Creative Director and Copywriter behind Stuff About Advertising, these concepting drills will help you improve your idea-generating skills.
With thought-provoking questions and creative prompts, doing a drill is like having a Creative Director working alongside you.
Try one for free here: stuffaboutadvertising.ck.page/sampledrill
Buy a 5-pack of drills here: www.etsy.com/listing/1596059644/creative-concepting-drills-guided-briefs
► Chapters:
00:23 - How many idea you should present
01:16 - Which format to use for presenting creative concepts
01:58 - Example of an idea writeup and title
02:55 - What to say in your presentation and how to improve your delivery
03:32 - Example of a bad presentation and a good presentation
04:46 - Feel more confident in your creative brainstorms with Concepting Drills
► Follow me on TikTok: tiktok.com/@stuffaboutadvertising/
► Follow me on Instagram: stuffaboutadvertising
► Read my favorite books on advertising and creativity: www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-b9d60086/list/GXHFGJGT5D1A?ref_=aipsflist_aipsfinfluencer-b9d60086
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How to Brainstorm Hundreds of Ideas | Methods for Creative Concepting in Advertising
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No more staring at a blank page WAITING for ideas to strike! Use these methods to start generating tons of ideas and kickstart your creative concepting session. These techniques can be used by copywriters, art directors, designers, and anyone else who is trying to come up with as many ideas as possible. In this video: 00:41 Breadth vs depth 02:00 Make an idea wall 03:18 Word association 04:20 M...
4 Characteristics of Good Advertising Copy | Intro to Creative Copywriting for Advertising
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Refining your taste is a super important part of becoming a good copywriter. So, you'll want to start looking at your advertising copy with a careful eye to decide if it's actually good or if it needs more work. In this video, I go over the four characteristics that all good ad copy shares and show some examples of ads that meet the criteria. In this video: 00:21 - The 4 characteristics of good...
Frequently Asked Questions About Strategic Insights | For Advertising Creatives
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Insights are super complex! So, naturally, people tend to have a ton of questions about them. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions I get when I teach about insights. Have more? Ask away in the comments! :) In this video: 00:26 - Does the insight need to be related to the client or brand? 05:40 - What's the difference between a brand truth and an insight? 07:34 - Does every ad ne...
How to Find Strategic Insights | Tips for researching & identifying strong insights for advertising
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After watching part one, you should have a good idea of what an insight is and how to tell if it's good or not. If not, maybe go watch that again :) In this video, I take you through a couple different techniques for actually finding insights to use in your advertising. I explain tips and tricks for researching your product or topic, then I show you some examples of how I use research to write ...
What Are Strategic Insights | Observations vs Insights | How to Avoid Bad Creative Insights
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Insights are one of the toughest topics to master when it comes to advertising. Typically, they're in the strategist's territory, but as an Art Director, Copywriter, or even an Account Manager, having a solid knowledge of strategic insights will help you IMMENSLY! Why should creatives care about insights - 00:31 What is an insight - 01:53 Examples of insights - 03:26 How to avoid bad insights /...
The Mindset of a Successful Advertising Copywriter | Things you can do now to get better faster
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New copywriters and junior copywriters, I know you're eager to get to the point where you're constantly writing award-winning copy. And you'll get there! But it's going to take time and practice. For now, there are a few things you can do to make sure you are in the right mindset to be a successful writer. Be a sponge - 00:19 Write a lot - 01:24 Don't take yourself too seriously - 02:09 Forget ...
Networking for Introverts | Tips for Making Connections at In-Person Events and Conferences
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Networking for Introverts | Tips for Making Connections at In-Person Events and Conferences
Intro to Concepting | How to Start Creative Concepts for Copywriters & Art Directors in Advertising
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Intro to Concepting | How to Start Creative Concepts for Copywriters & Art Directors in Advertising
Intro to Copywriting for Advertising | What Creative Copywriting Is & What an Agency Copywriter Does
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Intro to Copywriting for Advertising | What Creative Copywriting Is & What an Agency Copywriter Does
How I Got Started in Advertising | A Creative Director & Copywriter's Career Path
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How I Got Started in Advertising | A Creative Director & Copywriter's Career Path
Intro to Creative Briefs | What they are and how Creatives can use them for advertising concepting
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Intro to Creative Briefs | What they are and how Creatives can use them for advertising concepting
What Size Ad Agency is Right for You? | The difference between big and small agencies
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What Size Ad Agency is Right for You? | The difference between big and small agencies
How to Switch to a Career in Advertising | From another industry or without advertising experience
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How to Switch to a Career in Advertising | From another industry or without advertising experience
How to Choose Your Job in Advertising | Descriptions of positions in an advertising agency
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How to Choose Your Job in Advertising | Descriptions of positions in an advertising agency
How to Make an Advertising Portfolio / Where to Start and What Your Portfolio Should Have
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How to Make an Advertising Portfolio / Where to Start and What Your Portfolio Should Have
How to Get Started in Advertising / The Basics You'll Need for a Career in the Advertising Industry
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How to Get Started in Advertising / The Basics You'll Need for a Career in the Advertising Industry
Very helpful, thank you!
Thanks for your videos, awesome and interesting details!
Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much, I have to do a creative brief for my strategic marketing college class and this helped me a lot.
Awesome!! So glad I was able to help. :)
Thank you this was super helpful 🫶🏾
So glad to hear that!
Awesome tips. I’m trying to get into advertising as a software engineer. It seems like all the money in apps nowadays are through ads
Thank you for your amazing tips about advertisement!!
More on this plz🙏🏼🙏🏼
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:12 *🌟 Creative briefs serve as the guiding principle for advertising campaigns, aligning everyone involved on the campaign's objectives.* 01:10 *📋 Key components of a creative brief include background on the client, business objectives, strategy, promise, RTBs, audience, deliverables, and mandatories.* 02:47 *🎯 Strategy in a creative brief is akin to a game plan in football, outlining how to achieve the business objectives.* 03:28 *🤔 Audience segmentation in a creative brief should extend beyond demographics to include psychographics, influencing tone and messaging.* 04:12 *📝 Deliverables in a creative brief specify the actual content or materials to be produced for the campaign.* 04:39 *⚠️ Mandatories in a creative brief encompass specific client requirements, often including legal considerations like branded hashtags or URLs.* 07:02 *✏️ To generate concepts from a creative brief, highlight key phrases, ask questions, and continuously refer back to the brief for guidance throughout the creative process.* Made with HARPA AI
I just new in this advertisement world and thanks to your content i can learn a lot about the ad business i don’t know where to start and i have amazing ideas that i want to do, i have a list of ideas and i want to start to do some of them but honestly i need to do more research but i find this business ads more complicated than i tough so i get a little bit of anxiety…. But idk why i am doing this maybe because i love it? Am i freak? And there is always something very clever behind clever ads obviously, so i will give it a try and start to work on this because i love it, thanks again love your content you are an amazing ad teacher, i hope to learn step by step
It sounds like you'll love this career! Glad I could help. :)
Thanks for the list! Here are my recommendations: Cutting Edge Advertising (Jim Aitchinson), Dan Nelken's book, The Adweek Copywriting Handbook. Do you know any of these?
I LOVE Dan Nelken's book! I actually read it shortly after filming this and immediately added it to my list. :)
This really helps and makes me think that i am gonna have very cute team mates 🤣
currently making a concept for a possible internship, your video helps a lot, thank you sm!!
So happy to hear that!! Good luck!
Hey im currently in highschool and I have passion regarding creating projects and doing it in teamwork i actually get thrilled whenever there's a project to be be done is announced and with this passion and liking towards these things and to add up I'm quite participative in art competition and artistic competition and even win many of them. I was thinking of starting graphic designing as a freelancer and keep it up in portfolio will that be good for me when i go up for the interview after my degree will it act as a bonus?
Real world experience is always a great thing to have when going in for interviews!
I love that you shared your non-traditional track to CD. My story is non-traditional as well. I have no degree (but I do have 3 years of college completed), worked 10 years in healthcare administration, wiggled into network development where I got to showcase my marketing & creative skills, moved into an office manager role for a chain of childcare centers, pivoted into business development in tech and they saw my knack for marketing. Became a Marketing Coordinator where others saw my value and I was poached to become a Director of Marketing at an agency. Been here for nearly a year. It is like a creative director, customer success, social media, strategy, finance…all rolled into one. And our customer retention has been excellent since I came on board- I was even able to get one of their own clients back via a targeted campaign. I’ve realized I can make my own path, influencing the right people, and doing great work that speaks for itself. When people find out I never finished school, they are shocked. But I am going back in the spring (paying off what I owe) to finish my final year. I owe it to myself.
This really helped me have a clearer picture of the different advertising jobs Thank you
Very informative and helpful
I was looking for information about jobs in advertising, and found your channel. Great stuff It would be awesome if you made a video going through the hierarchy in an advertising agency
Thank you! I have a video where I go through the different departments and roles, but I can definitely do something more specific about hierarchy in the future!
The website has expired :(
Where do you teach?
I have an interview I have to present at next week I am absolutely using these tips
Good luck with the presentation!!
How to know if advertising is not for me?
That's definitely something that can change from person to person, but for me, it would be if I felt more often drained than excited. There should be more good days than bad.
I majored in Advertising at my college but started a career in production as a video editor. Now, I want to make a switch back to advertising, focusing more on concept development and commercial script writing. However, I'm not a grammar Nazi or a strong essay writer, so I'm worried if I would fit the copywriter label. What do you think? Is there a title for wanting to write commercials?
You can definitely still be a copywriter! Proper grammar isn't always necessary because you want to write like people actually speak. And I honestly didn't like writing until I became a copywriter 😂 If you want to specifically work on commercials, you can look for a broadcast agency that specializes in that!
do you ever have this light bulb moment and then the next second you forget about it completely? If yes how do you trace back to it?
Always haha. That's why I write literally everything down. Even as I'm figuring the thought out, I'm writing it down.
You have no idea how useful this has been for me. Thank you so much! 🥰
Thank you for watching!!
Which one has the most pictures? I'm a visual learner lol
The Advertising Concept Book! There are TONS of ad examples and images in there.
This is awesome. Can you do a video on what happens after you chat with your creative partner about ideas? When it’s time to film commercials does the creative team go on the shoots? How does this work?
So good!!!
Genuine value creation like this is hard to come by; I wish everyone get to watch and learn from this. Thank you so much! 🙏🏽
Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm so happy to hear that this is valuable info! 🙌
Love the video! Nice tips and i like the new camera quality
Thank you!!
I rewatched your video twice, with the second round pausing and rewinding to take notes. Now, I'm off to brainstorming and applying what you taught. Thanks so much for your video explaining how to brainstorm. This is straightforward, simple, and no fluff!
How will i get all this data from my company Should I schedule a meet and grasp all this and document it
At the beginning of each project, you should be having a "kickoff" meeting. That's usually scheduled by the account team or project managers. That's where you'd go over the brief and talk through everything together. If that's not happening, definitely ask!
Thank you so much, I truly enjoyed your video
Hi! Absolutely love your channel! Would you mind telling us the titles of the four different books on advertising that can be seen in the background of this video?
Thank you! 😊 All of my recommended books are in a link at the bottom of the video description, and I'm super picky about what I put on that list haha. The ones in this video are The Advertising Concept Book, The Copy Book, and two different editions of Hey Whipple.
you're the most beautiful woman i have seen in my life
Hey, can you pls post more videos on how to write an insight?
Definitely more to come! :)
thank you so much for this video!! I graduated in may of 2023 and still have had no luck in landing a job in advertising (creative), and after watching i think all I need is more specific spec work on my portfolio. You're amazing!!!!
I’m a working senior copywriter and I wanted to add one more kernel of advice or pro tip on ad portfolios: I feel that visitors should pickup on your vibe/voice upon hitting your landing page, meaning without having to click into your work/projects. Your landing page or homepage should communicate a bunch about you, but immediately. Via self branding, not via text. I also have a channel and a new book.
Maybe my book: The AdAdderall Handbook. It’s not nearly as good as the ones on your list, it’s more of a collection of every ad idea generation technique out there.
great stuff . well done
Thank you so much
This is fantastic. Helps me (director/photographer) understand what to expect in those meetings and gives me some ideas for making personal work.
Thank you so much ❣
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May you please name the role which plans the content of ad for the particular brand?
Strategists are typically the ones to plan out the main point/takeaway that will be communicated in the ads, but the creatives (Art Director, Copywriter, Creative Director) are the ones who decide HOW to do that with exact wording and visual style.
Dan Nelken
I just recently added this one to the list! It was great.
It was one of the things that got me into ad school at Goodby Silverstein. ❤ Dan.
Love this. Well done.
Thank you!!
Thank you so much for this video. This is soooo helpful 🙌
I’m so glad it was helpful! 🙏
im an arts management major but i took an internship for ad agency xD i wanted to create an ad someday for TV or a billboard, im currently in my 3rd week and im struggling at the fast pace haha but i can still finish outputs
The fast pace is definitely something to get used to! But you’ll get there for sure!
3:08 isn’t “just serving” and the “campus thing” incorrect! You were already creating UA-cam videos so conceptualizion and content creation should’ve been on that list
Back then, content creation wasn't really a thing. Or it at least wasn't well known enough to be a recognizable skill on a resume. Social media was just taking off!
Thank you for the information! Anecdotal question though, what's the probability of an ad working? True, we see them everywhere, but my brain has managed to build up a filter for 99% of them. So is that just a numbers game/gamble at that point? I said anecdotal because a friend of mine said ads were the least profitable and I believed them at face just because of my previously mentioned bias. Whats the real stats for an ads' success rate?
That number would wildly differ based on a ton of factors (location, type of ad, audience, how long it's up, etc). But generally, I think the ads that don't FEEL like ads do the best in terms of efficacy. Stuff that's just entertaining and engaging!
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