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February 10, 2019 3 Comments

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Sometimes we marketers can climb so far up the brand ladder from functional benefits to emotional benefits to social benefits, we can lose touch with why people are buying our products in the first place.

There is power in purpose-driven brands. And yet, when every piece of marketing attempts to communicate some kind of social purpose, social purpose can start to lose its meaning, particularly when purpose is left to the agency.

A British soft drink brand called Oasis recently mocked the current state of purpose-driven advertising with a parody campaign showing strangers brought together through their fruit juice. Strangers are invited to share a bottle, and when they lift the bottle from the table, they find it has a neck on both ends. They then attempt to drink from the same bottle at the same time, spraying fruit juice everywhere.

As the Oasis marketing team put it: “Oasis is calling out the latest trend of worthy advertising. Brands acting holier than thou while everyone knows it’s all about sales not saintliness.”

Sometimes people buy a brand just because they like the taste.

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Here are a couple related cartoons I’ve drawn over the years.

“Brand Laddering” June 2012

“Purpose-Driven Advertising” August 2016

“The Art of Greenwashing” July 2007

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  1. Richard Rabil says

    February 11, 2019 at 7:53 am

    I’ve often wondered who came up with the term “Purpose driven marketing.” I thought all marketing had a purpose. Your toons hit the right cord. Don’t people buy because of a need or a benefit and not because of a social message?

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    • Youssef Nasser says

      February 11, 2019 at 11:07 am

      @Richard Rabil some people buy just because of the hype, were no real value is present; case in point, SUPREME.

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  2. Mylo says

    February 12, 2019 at 12:20 am

    Yes it seems there is a mix-up, people would like that companies behind the brands conduct their business in socially responsible way – but when you brag about that it really shows that company is still greedy money-grabbing organization. It’s like you don’t want to hear from your co-worker ”hey I took a shower this morning”, ”hey I didn’t steel anybody’s food from the fridge today”, ”hey I waited for the pedestrian to cross the street this morning”…

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