What makes Nike’s advertising tick?

What makes Nike’s advertising tick?
By Stefano Hatfield
Phil Knight, the co-founderand former Chief Executive of Nike, prefers to let his superstar athletes and advertisements do his talking for him. Named Advertiser of the year at the 50th Cannes International Advertising Festival, he is the first parson to win the award twice.
Knight has an absolutely clear and committed strategy to use celebrity athlete endorsement. He describes it as one part of ‘three-legged stool’ which lies behind Nike’s phenomenal growth since the early 1980s, with the other two being product design and advertising.
He has built Nike’s expansion into sport after sport from its athletics roots on the back of sporting masters: Carl Lewis on the track; tennis’s Jimmy Connors and john McEnroe; Tiger Woods, who led Nike into golf; Ronaldo and the Brazilian national football team; and basketball star, Michael Jordan, who famously rescued the company.
From the beginning Nike has been prepared to take a gamble on sporting bad boys others would not touch: Andre Agassi springs to mind. It was a strategy that began with Ilie Nastase, the original tennis bad boy. The Romanian had the quality that has come to represent Nile and its advertising attitude.
After extraordinary growth, Nike became number one trainer manufacturer in the US. But Knight admits the company then lost its way as it failed to cope with its success. It experimented unsuccessfully with expansion into non-athleticshoes, and lost its number one position to Reebok in 1986.
Knight bet the future of the company on a new feature: a new air technology inside the trainer. He launched the product with David Fincherdirected ad which use the Beatles track Revolution, and then marketed the Air Jordon brand on the back of Michael Jordon. Sales took off and the rest is history.
This brings us to the subject of globalization and the question of how American the brand can be. Nike uses a mix of global ad campaigns such as ‘good v evil’ and local advertising such as its famous poster campaign in the UK.
During a 21-yearpartnership with the agency Wieden and Kennedy, Nike has created some of the world’s mostattention-grabbingadvertising: for example,
the Nike ‘good v evil’ campaign and two advertisements both for World Cups and the ad ‘tag’, last year’s Cannes grand prize winner. Other famous ads star Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi playing in the street of Manhattan; Tiger Woods playing; ‘keepy-uppy’with a golf ball; and Brazil’s team playing soccer at the airport terminal.
It is a remarkable body of work, both in its variety, daring and consistent originality. At Nike there is a streamlined decision-makingprocess that gives marketing directors real power. They do not rely on market researchpre-testingwhich often reduces the impact of more experimental commercials. There is also the long relationship with one of the world’s best ad agencies, and what Wieden describes as ‘an honesty about sport’. Things only happen in Nike ads that sportsmen and women can really do.
‘My number one advertising principle - if I have one – is to wake up the consumer,’ concludes Knight, with an absolute conviction that is unique among modern-daychief executives. ’We have ahigh-riskstrategy on advertising. When it works, it is more interesting. There really is no formula.’

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то, что делает Nike рекламного тик?
стефано хэтфилд: фил найт, совместно founderand бывший исполнительный директор Nike, предпочитает, чтобы его суперзвездой спортсменов и рекламу делать его говорить за него.по имени рекламодателя, за год на 50 - й каннский международный фестиваль рекламы, он является первым лицом, чтобы выиграть награду дважды.
рыцарь имеет совершенно четкие и совершенные стратегии использования знаменитый спортсмен одобрения.он описывает его как часть "на трех ножках", который стоит за найк феноменальный рост с начала 80 - х годов, с двумя другими, дизайна и рекламы.
он построил найк экспансии в спорт после спорта с его легкой атлетике корни по спине спортивных мастеров:карл льюис на трассе; теннис - джимми коннорс, и джон макинрой, тайгер вудс, который возглавлял Nike в гольф, роналду и бразильской национальной футбольной команды; и баскетбольной звезды, майкл джордан, который лихо спас компанию.
с самого начала Nike была готова принять спекулировать на спортивные плохие парни, другие не трогать: андре агасси приходит на ум.это была стратегия, которая началась с илие настасе, первоначально теннис плохой мальчик.румынский были качества, что стало представлять нила и его рекламы отношение.
после чрезвычайного роста, Nike стал номером один тренер - в сша.но найт признает, что компания потеряла ее, как она не смогла справиться с ее успеха.