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Engage Your Audience, Save On Production, But If You Don’t Come Away With Great Advertsing, What’s The Point?

February 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Luxury watch marker, Raymond Weil, has quite a challenge on its wrists. Why pay thousands of dollars for a timepiece when one’s iPhone or BlackBerry can tell the time just as well?
It’s a challenge that great advertising might help solve. But the brand didn’t turn to the experts for assistance, Raymond Weil took the latest and non-greatest route instead.
Here are two “consumer generated” spots that received the most votes in the brand’s “crowd sourcing” contest.


What do you think? Are you ready to plop down $1850 for the brand’s Freelancer model?

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Filed Under: Consumer Generated Media, Promotions
About David Burn

I wrote my first ad for a local political candidate when I was 17 (she went on to win her race, and I felt the power of persuasive copy for the first time). Today, I live near Portland, Oregon and spend my days building brands for companies that matter.