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How 30 Great Ads Were Made
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How 30 Great Ads Were Made

by Eliza Williams
March 2012
Beginner
224 pages
7h 6m
English
Laurence King
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Axe Dark Temptation

Chocolate Man

Ponce Buenos Aires

With its Chocolate Man spot for Axe deodorant, Argentinean agency Ponce Buenos Aires gave a familiar ad campaign a surreal twist. When the spot was released, a global ad campaign for Axe (also branded as Lynx) had been running for some time, based on the notion that the anti-perspirant spray made users magnetically attractive to women. The spot for the Dark Temptation scent in 2007 continued this proposition, drawing on a long-established symbol for female desire as its inspiration. ‘We started with a question,’ explain Mario Crudele, copywriter, and Jose Silva, producer of the ad. ‘What’s one of the most irresistible things for women? And we realized that chocolate is one of them.’

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ISBN: 9781856698214