UKNM: Re: UKNM Digest V1 #106

[Ian Tester]

I actually am sometimes impressed with the way BT tailor their copy: it's

really not true to say they don't tailor to individual sites. Take the BT

Highway campaign. 9 pieces of copy that I can recall, all well tailored to

the individual sites they were placed on: a few examples -


Overall theme of campaign (I guess!) = speed and convenience, so a few

examples


Tailored for gamers: Kill your friends more quickly, and insult them on the

phone at the same time


"loaded-style" audience: "Be quicker at pulling - information off the web"

"Hey you! Don't be a wimp!"

Techie sites (vnunet etc): "28k out of date - 56k up to date - 128k cutting

edge""does your PC plod?"

Car sites; "the web just found a new accelerator"

as well as a few pieces of more general copy.


However, in truth, althought this kind of tailoring is on the increase, it

is far from being the norm. Advertisers will get wiser.....


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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:34:10 +0000

From:

Geoffrey [dot] Innsexpress [dot] co [dot] uk

 (Geoffrey Inns)

Subject: Re[2]: UKNM: online ad tolerance collapsing


Maybe a lot of online advertisers are in that in-between stage, from

accepting the medium to using it in its proper fashion i.e. within individual

contexts.


We have advertisers such as BT on our sites whose banners are the same for

every site they advertise on, regardless of content.  You know that I am now going

to advocate individual tailoring of banner creative and that there are high

costs associated with this.


Visit our web site at www.fletch.co.uk

Ian Tester, Marketing Manager, Fletcher Research

Management Reports - Monitoring Products - Strategic Consultancy

17 Rathbone Street, London W1P 1AF, UK

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