Monday, November 24, 2014

A picture is worth a thousand words

    This is a very clever advertisement from Weight Watchers   directed towards overweighed  people. The ad itself does not give any information besides the name of the company,  promoting the idea of that all that it takes to change your body  is a single a step (enter the door would be call/write them asking for information).  I first saw it in a Brazilian magazine written in Portuguese (the company is licensed in Brazil as “Vigilantes do Peso”) and after a little research I found the picture written in English but I am not sure in which media were published in the U.S.  As in Brazil the ad was in a magazine usually read by middle class business men and women, I can assume that these people overwhelmed by stress, busy schedules  and with no time to take care of nutrition is their potential target.  A research showed Nutrisystem as a primary competitor of Weight Watchers but differently from Nutrisystem, which I am not familiar with,  I saw people in Brazil who attended to Weight Watchers (Vigilantes do Peso) and got incredible results despite their high price.

     The most interesting thing about the campaign is that it leaves up to you when you will decide to make the change in your body. You choose when to call or look for information. It  communicates straight the main activities of the company: you do not leave the program in the same shape you were when you entered.

3 comments:

  1. This picture is quite interesting and unique. It did not explain with words, but I clearly understood what the company was. It dose not require a long time to show the massage. the picture is creative and clever.

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  2. This is a pretty powerful ad, and it implies guaranteed results with the use of Weight Watchers. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Wow! That cuts it right to the chase. A clear meaning as to what they had intended. I also could see how distasteful it could be seen as also.

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