Do we overintellectualize advertising?

[tweetmeme source=”adamanddan” only_single=false] On a recent visit home, I met with my friends where we had plenty to catch up on. Now obviously working in advertising causes one of your mates’ to bring up the ‘have you seen that ad?’ conversation.

Listening to them, they brought up some interesting points and those points have inspired this blog post.

All the thinking and all the clever stuff behind the idea can be wasted on those who watch it. They see what they see. Unless they are like you and us, and want to destruct the thinking of an advertisement when you see one, then there’s a good chance they won’t analyse it. To them, it’s just a disruption.

So do we overintellectualize all the ads we do? Sometimes we try too hard to come up with an amazing piece of creative when in reality we forget what we are here to do. To sell.

Sometimes we make them so complicated that we forget about the people who really care what the ad is like – the consumer. They’re the ones we need to convince, not the client, not the agency or our peers. It’s the advertising that’s simple that always works, because they’re the ads that people just ‘get’.

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