Tag Archives: branded utility

#38 – Asics – Support your marathoner 0

Who ? Asics, the Japanese brand created in 1949. What’s the utility ? As a main sponsor of the New York marathon, Asics decided last year to support the participants in a clever way and do you know better supporters than your familly and friends? Have a look to the video to see their answer. [...]

#37 – Ikea – The nap station 1

Who ? Ikea, the famous Swedish brand. What’s the utility ? With their great agency Ubi Bene, they created a nap station on the road between Paris, Lyon and then Marseille. Here is the video : It’s particularly clever to try the beds of the brand and it “improves the daily lives” as their claim [...]

“22″ – Useful quotes – Jeremy Bullmore 2

Jeremy Bullmore, respected thinker of WPP, answering to a reader of Campaign magazine, said such things about brand utility: Branded Utility may be a shiny new phrase, but what it describes is as old as marketing. And I don’t mean that dismissively: it’s always been a good idea. About 70 years ago, I was an [...]

#35 – Roche Diabetes Care – AccuCheck 0

Who? A world famous pharmaceutic company : Roche, more precisely Roche Diabetes Care. What’s the utility? To help the patients, the company created a blog, Accu-chek, with a Facebook page and a Twitter account. We can imagine how hard it is for the patient and his family to deal with this disease. That’s why Roche [...]