Speculating about a possible General Election in 2009, the Independent on Sunday has asked six leading ad agencies to come up with their poster ideas.
Most of the adverts were for Conservative campaigns – showing that many agencies want to pitch their business at the party tipped to win.
All rather tactical really: ad agencies hoping to win the vote of parties hoping to win people’s votes. Still, life’s a pitch…
See the full story (with photos) here.
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7 Comments
Yes, I saw this too.
Interesting that most of the ideas are negative anti-politics. Strikes me that the population is fed-up with political failure from successive governments.
Also interesting that the Lib Dem ideas all focussed on tax and the economy.
From an ad-man’s standpoint, this area is now viewed as our main strength.
Alix,
It says nothing about what they think our strengths are and everything about what they think Labour’s weaknesses are…because they say nothing positive about our policies…they are all pretty dreadful…
Oh, stop it.
Every area of policy should be an area of equal strength – to be overly-strong in one brief suggests weakness elsewhere or a crisis at large in the world, or both.
Oranjepan,
*coughs* i meant the ADS in the IoS…
Just to clarify I meant the advertisments are *all pretty dreadful*…..obviously that wasnt clear from the way I posted so I am sorry….
Can’t say I think much of them, benefit thieves one is the best, ‘Labour put us all in the red’ next.
Knocked up a rough alternative attempt
http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y107/TP4CCCC/?action=view¤t=LibDemPoster-1.jpg
I’d say the party should put out a request for submissions from party members, if a good enough one comes in then money doesn’t need to be spent on buying one professionally.
If it doesn’t then spend the money anyway. No downside really (I say this of course in ignorance of how the process really works and will cheerfully retract it all if any informed people turn up).