Thursday, 22 January 2015

Wieden+Kennedy fact file


Agency Fact file

Favourite advert- Honda ‘Cog’ 2003-

Wieden+Kennedy



Logo of agency?

 http://www.mandmglobal.com/Libraries/IMZ_company_logos/wkLogo.sflb.ashx

 

When was the agency founded?

April 1, 1982



Who were the founders?

Founded by Dan Wieden and David Kennedy

 

How did they start?

Dan Wieden met David Kennedy in 1980, at the William Cain advertising agency while working on the Nike account. They took Nike with them as a client after founding Wieden & Kennedy (later changed to Wieden+Kennedy).

 

Where are the headquarters?

Portland, Oregon

 

Have they won awards?

In 2002, the Gunn Report named W+K as the most-awarded agency in the world                 

Recent awards:









 

 

What other products have they worked on?

Nike, Facebook, Coca-cola, Microsoft

 

Find one of their TV adverts and analyse in detail.


This advert is called ‘possibilities’ by Nike and reflects  on the sportive audience who all activities they see in the advert interest them. This advert makes them feel if they have the right sports wear they can accomplish things they see in the advert. It uses non-diegetic up beat motivating music, the voice we hear is a motivating voice telling the audience what they can do, they can do better with Nike. He uses the repetition of the word ‘beat’ as being a competitive sportive people, this is what the audience want to do. The message of this advert is, everything is better with Nike. With Nike you can accomplish anything and anyone.

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