You may have noticed that next week is the Festival of Marketing, London's answer to SXSW and Cannes Lions, and indeed the very definition of marketing as it is now.
So, to give you a promo post to keep you interested, I thought I'd bring you some marketing creative from London's past, when OOH and print were pretty much the only way to market.
We hope to see you next week at a festival that the Mayor of London himself has described as 'the perfect opportunity for our world leading creative and digital sectors to come together'.
Before I give you the creative, check out our promo video for the festival, and a brief summary of what's on.
Marketing today
There will be events for:
- Creatives – PUNCH
- Sales and B2B – FUNNEL
- Data junkies - CRUNCH
- Cross-channellers – JUMP
- Senior types – Digital Cream FX
On top of that, the Fringe will include many snappily titled events and some thinly veiled excuses for a party, including:
- University Challenge –for charity (a few places left)
- Direct Margarita Night (!)
- Bladdered
- The Marketing Mixer
- A TV Dinner
- Youth 100 Workshop
- Psych
- Marketing Leaders Programme
- Merlin Lecture
All this will be topped off by Marketing Frenzy, a closing night at Fabric featuring Beardyman.
London's marketing past
The Michelin House
In West London, it opened in 1911. It's the perfect example of a headquarters that carries the brand to all passersby.
Regent Street
Many people don't know these shops sold mourning ware in Victorian times. Topshop itself started out providing mourning ware for children. Here's an advert from Illustrated London News for one of Regent Street's stores.
All-important fountain pens
Anchor
This one's a trick. Chi & Partners have done a clever take on old wall advertisements, with this campaign for Anchor butter.
The famous OXO tower
According to Wikipedia
The Liebig Extract of Meat Company wanted to include a tower featuring illuminated signs advertising the name of their product. When permission for the advertisements was refused, the tower was built with four sets of three vertically-aligned windows, each of which "coincidentally" happened to be in the shapes of a circle, a cross and a circle.
Piccadilly Circus
Still an attraction for tourists who bizarrely flock to its neon advertising. Here it is in 1930.
And here's my favourite from South London...
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