Smart AD

by Joe Doyle on October 23, 2007

Print ads are hard to create. Why? Well, people don’t care about them. Your advertising interferes with a reader finishing her article.

So how do you make people read your ad? After all, you spent a lot of money on it.

How about involvement? It’s an age-old DM trick to get people connected to your message.

I came across an iStockphoto ad and it stopped me (yes, even though I’m in the biz I still pass most ads). This one asks you to find a logo – and if you can – you win FREE photos. Beauty. I love the idea. So smart.

(click = BIG)

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Can you find the logo? Print it out and try…

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1 Kelly 10.24.07 at 8:58 pm

Well I can’t see it but I can’t seem to print it out very large! I am looking for spots on the dog. I am squinting and trying to gaze at it thinking it is like one of those paintings where the picture is hidden. You will have to circle it in red I think in a week or so!

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