Rory Sutherland’s TED Talk: Lessons From an Ad Man

How do you win over an audience? Make them laugh.
Rory Sutherland succeeds at getting the audience laughing right off the bat and just keeps rolling.
The highlights:

Perceived value is the easiest type of value to create.
Unless you want to live in a poorer world in the future, we need to create more intangible value from our [...]


Does Creativity Work in Advertising?

The creative team at Melbourne, Australia’s George Patterson Y&R wanted to see if they could prove that creative advertising works.
‘Works?’
Works: makes money for someone who invests in creative advertising.
They took a dead simple example, accessible to anyone, and made the following short documentary about their experience. (Cue the rock song.)

Now, if you’re a sharp mind, [...]