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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
 - Preface
 - Behind a successful brand there's a big idea
 - What is a 'big idea'?
 - The Tesco example (1)
 - The Tesco ad
 - The Tesco example (2)
 - A simple test of a big idea
 - Product truth
 - Big ideas timeline - the 4 P's
 - Persil - washes whiter
 - The Persil ad
 - Product interrogation
 - Big ideas timeline - product truth
 - Consumer insight
 - A new approach to research
 - The Heineken ad
 - The Hamlet ad
 - Focus groups and co-creating research
 - Big ideas timeline - consumer insight
 - Company culture
 - Brand wars
 - Brand positioning: the battle for your mind
 - The soul of an organisation (1)
 - The Apple ad
 - The Nike ad
 - The soul of an organisation (2)
 - Big ideas timeline - company culture
 - Corporate ambition
 - Competing for the future
 - Creating the markets of tomorrow
 - The Sony Playstation ad
 - Big ideas timeline - corporate ambition
 - Big idea hunting
 - Today all four approaches are valid
 - 'Big ideas day'
 - Five tests of a big idea (1)
 - Five tests of a big idea (2)
 - Does the idea fit?
 - Five tests of a big idea (3)
 - Toyota Aygo launch manifesto
 - From big idea to creative idea
 - The need for a creative idea
 - Logic and magic
 - Two approaches to the creative idea
 - Campaign planning
 - Some data about the average person
 - Bringing ideas to life inside out
 - CHI communications planning tool
 - A new approach to measuring effectiveness
 - The power of participation (1)
 - Changing media landscape
 - The power of participation (2)
 - Drench - a youth-targeted water brand
 - The Drench ad
 
Topics Covered
- Creating the brand idea is the basis of all brand communication
 - How that big idea is generated and integrated into a comprehensive and coherent programme of branded communication is a core area of brand management
 - Where big ideas come from, and how to go hunting for them
 - Five tests of a big idea
 - How
 - and why
 - to get from a big idea to a creative idea
 - The latest thinking on campaign planning and the power of consumer participation
 
Talk Citation
Clemmow, S. (2010, April 1). Advertising, big ideas and the power of participation [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved November 4, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/QDBZ4017.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on April 1, 2010