The bastard child of capitalism and mediocrity...
So McDonalds sells really great coffee! And awesome pecan nut tarts! And they’ve been doing it for a while.
Of course, you’d be forgiven for not knowing this, since the advertising/marketing behind this new-ish (it’s been around for a while overseas) offering has been pretty dire.
Actually, it’s been non-existent.
For some reason, it’s been decided that it’s just not worth the effort to get us excited about the Mc-Coffee vibe, unlike this little effort that could easily have been replicated or (GOD FORBID!) even improved upon, down here.
It’s nothing new. The same thing happened with District 9’s marketing. We missed the entire campaign by about 2 months. Our own local media only caught a whiff of it by the time it was winding down overseas.
And clearly adidas just doesn’t see the benefits in extending its global marketing programme to this country. The Star Wars range of sneaks (which marketing campaign I’ve written about somewhat) arrived in the stores about a week or so ago without so much as a rogue storm trooper.
Why do we put up with this box-checking, mediocre approach?
Probably because we don’t know any better. Probably because we’re so used to mediocrity being churned out at us, we think it’s the norm.
Maybe one day, we’ll catch on that brands need to prove they deserve our support. Maybe we’ll force them to all behave like Nandos who work really hard to show us something new. Maybe one day we’ll make it so that they understand that they need us more than we need them.
Or we’ll just carry on playing Farmville…
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