Decoding an Advertising Campaign

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DECODING AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN LIPTON ICE TEA- ‘NEVER LOSE YOUR COOL’ Lipton Ice Tea currently owned by Unilever has launched ‘Never Lose Your Cool’ an integrated marketing campaign to target gen Y’s around the world to keep their cool in summer. The campaign consists of unique interactive media and technology alongside guerrilla advertising techniques. The campaign approach has set out to engage the target audience using fresh ideas including interactive media equipment that has never been utilised before by other marketing campaigns. ‘Never Lose Your Cool’ marketing campaign communicates messages and meanings to the audience, to encourage them to be enthusiastic about Lipton Ice Tea and essentially buy the product. Semiotic signs involved in this marketing campaign are deliberately created to form an understanding of the product to the audience and the benefits the product holds for the consumer. Therefore this approach of promotion could be considered propaganda at times due to the want the brand has to persuade their audience and the use of textual strategies. These persuasive techniques and textual strategies are used in a specific way and ensure the audience perceive the correct meaning and connotation from the campaign. ‘Never Lose Your Cool’ would not be successful without effort and thought put into discourse strategies and the specific context language and text appears in. Decoding of their campaign by the audience is sensed through the relationship of text and its context. The ‘Never Lose Your Cool’ campaign features different forms of media and texts working alongside each other to send out a message to never lose your cool whilst drinking and having Lipton Ice Tea in your life. Lipton Ice Tea reinforced the idea of staying cool by installing cooling agents to their advertisements to interactively communicate with the audience to stay cool.

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