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Before social media feeds and the chase for virality, advertising was built around a single strong idea; one that could stand on its own without the noise of algorithms and trends.\u00a0Han West<\/a>, Partner at\u00a0Washington Square Films<\/a>, explores how today\u2019s interest in nostalgia could help advertisers reconnect with that simpler creative mindset.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>\u00a0By Han West<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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When I think about creativity in advertising from the \u201990s and 2000s, I think about the context we were in as much as the content itself.<\/p>\n

In approaching their work, creatives didn\u2019t have to dilute a concept or endlessly adapt it for a multitude of formats and devices. They didn\u2019t have to respond to trends coursing through social media five minutes ago. A strong idea could properly incubate, stand on its own, and have the ability to be seen and stick around without all the noise and urgency to move on.<\/p>\n

For those that are old enough to remember it as consumers, we\u2019re missing a simpler time and simpler, deeper, and more patient forms.<\/p>\n

Today, the task for creatives is obviously much more complex. Campaign ideas are shoehorned into a barrage of platforms, each with its own subsets, tendencies, and half-lives that have to be addressed. Finding the common denomination of ideas that effectively fit all of these categories is incredibly challenging. So if creativity in advertising has been putting up lower numbers in cutting through the zeitgeist and yielding true, widespread cultural phenomena, it isn\u2019t because of a lack of talent but a constant splintering of focus.<\/p>\n

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Today, the task for creatives is obviously much more complex, as campaign ideas are shoehorned into a barrage of platforms.\u00a0<\/em><\/h1>\n

Indeed, the transformation of marketing and advertising into a data-driven reach-you-anywhere-and-everywhere apparatus for brands has largely constrained creative freedom. But I suspect, as our consumption has stabilised around a few social media platforms and non-linear programming (hopefully for a while), we\u2019re realising how exhausted we all are by the gatling gun of modern marketing. For those that are old enough to remember it as consumers, we\u2019re missing a simpler time and simpler, deeper, and more patient forms.<\/p>\n

As our consumption has stabilised around a few social media platforms and non-linear programming (hopefully for a while), we\u2019re realising how exhausted we all are by the gatling gun of modern marketing.<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m talking about a time when effective engagement began with the idea and spread outwards, as opposed to beginning with a spread of platforms and fitting an idea into all of them, and everyone was in on the trend. And for creatives, this may be the moment when the need to do deeply thoughtful work for its own sake returns, when the strength (not the flexibility) of ideas is what matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Above: Gap’s<\/em>\u00a0Everyone In\u00a0campaign had no copy, no call to action. It went viral before \u201cviral\u201d was even a word. Everyone remembered it.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Enter \u201cretro.\u201d My definition of \u201cretro\u201d is anything that conjures a universal sense memory for an audience or consumer base. Whether a piece of music, a typeface, a graphic, or a film grain, if you feel nostalgic for it – and most importantly if it effectively makes you want to stay in that feeling – it\u2019s retro. I find the interesting thing about retro content and style is that the same piece of material that feels \u201cdated\u201d or \u201ccliche\u201d or \u201ccampy\u201d in one cultural moment can suddenly feel current and relevant and cool in another. Why is that?<\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019re fractured into our own silos of preferences and self-curated content.<\/p>\n

Again, the context matters as much as the content itself. I\u2019d venture to say the thing many of us are missing in this moment is when there was a unified culture, when even if we disagreed on what was good and bad, cool and not cool, we were at least all commenting on the same, limited number of things. Today, we\u2019re fractured into our own silos of preferences and self-curated content. In the modern world, we can all listen to different music, watch different shows, follow different influencers, and have very little overlap with each other in what we consume. A lot of what is considered \u201cretro\u201d right now are simply things that nearly all of us can recognise, which has somehow become rarified in this world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Above: Gap’s Better In Denim, a\u00a0callback to\u00a0Everybody In, feels ready to be cut down into a million deliverables that are designed to simply grab your attention for a few seconds.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Take Gap\u2019s late-\u201990s\u00a0Everybody In<\/em>\u00a0campaign, the most memorable of which to me was the\u00a0Mellow Yellow<\/em> spot. It was a single take: people sitting around in jeans on a white cyc, singing straight to the camera. No copy, no call to action, just people, music, and feeling. It went viral before \u201cviral\u201d was even a word. Everyone remembered it. Everyone talked about it. It was a simple and confident idea that was complete and incredibly resonant in and of itself. And ironically, one could easily see how that very same campaign could be expanded and iterated across many marketing mediums today. But its greatness didn\u2019t consider any of that because those mediums didn\u2019t exist, and that may just be the reason for its greatness.<\/p>\n

Creatives have to throw away the burdens of modern marketing and plunge themselves into that quieter mindset, where the idea is the focus, not the distribution.<\/p>\n

Now Gap is calling back to that work in its latest\u00a0Better In Denim<\/em>\u00a0campaign – dancers on a white cyc, some of them singing along to the song – but instead of a deliberate and patient focus on the people and the tone, it has fast edits, dynamic camera movements, and a celebrity in the middle of it all – all ready to be cut down into a million deliverables that are designed to simply grab your attention for a few seconds.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the work because it reminded me of the old campaign, but if we\u2019re going to do \u201cretro\u201d right, I think creatives have to throw away the burdens of modern marketing and plunge themselves into that quieter mindset (even if they weren\u2019t alive or don\u2019t remember it) where the idea is the focus, not the distribution. And if the trend of retro is an excuse to do that, it\u2019s good for creativity, and I hope good for business.<\/p>\n

Read the full article HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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