Most marketers will remember Apple’s 1984 ad.
Many consider it the “greatest ad of all time”.
But you probably don’t know that just 12 months earlier, Apple released a similar ad that failed.
Why?
Today on Nudge, bestselling author and storytelling expert Will Storr explains why.
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Flock Associates – Recife Sport club: Immortal Fans. Integrated Campaign by Ogilvy Brazil. https://youtu.be/E99ijQScSB8?si=TS3poMArJIqb-FtE
Muth, C., Pepperell, R., & Carbon, C.-C. (2013). Give me Gestalt! Preference for cubist artworks revealing high detectability of objects. Leonardo, 46(5), 488–489.
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Wiessner, P. W. (2014). Embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 111(39), 14027–14035. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1404212111
