Advertising tends to have to vary enormously from culture to culture so as to cater for the different cultural expectations of the diverse target audiences. Some companies operating globally try to follow a one-size-fits-all strategy and run exactly the same advertisements throughout the world. The occasionally misfires, as the true examples on our book page 92 activity 3 illustrate. A more successful approach is to develop a core theme with slight local adaptations: this approach is analysed in this section with the aim of discussing why one approach might be more suitable than another for a particular culture.



Video clips of advertisements:
What advantage does each advertisement have? Which one do you like personally?


