Advertising Creative: Strategy, Copy, and Design

Written in an accessible style, Advertising Creative has become a key resource on the most recent trends of strategy, concepts, design, and integration of media and technology. The Third Edition gets right to the point of advertising by stressing key principles, illustrating them, and then providing practical information students and working professionals can use. Drawing on their own personal experience as award-winning experts in the creative advertising field, Tom Altstiel and Jean Grow offer a unique blend of real world and academic perspectives as they examine relevant and cutting-edge topics, including global, social media, business-to-business, in-house, and small agency advertising. Indeed, this hands-on textbook takes you well beyond traditional media topics, offering engaging examples and case histories on hot issues such as digital technology and tools, diversity, and an ever-expanding global marketplace.

In the new edition, Altstiel and Grow take a deeper dive into the exploration of digital technology and its implications for the industry, as they expose the pervasive changes experienced across the global advertising landscape. Their insightful discoveries reveal how brands now cut across geographic and cultural boundaries with lightning speed, and how the interplay of technology and culture, both local and global, is fast creating a marketplace that knows no boundaries. However, as cultural, geographic, and economic boundaries shift under our feet, the most important revelation of all is the identification of the three qualities that will define the future leaders of this industry: Be a risk taker. Understand technology. Live for ideas.

KEY FEATURES

• Added chapters on Global Advertising and Social Media as well as expanded coverage of digital media reflect the rapidly changing advertising industry.
• Updated throughout with new illustrations and timely examples.
• "Survival Guide" chapter offers practical advice on how to land a job in the advertising business―and advance―illustrated with student portfolio examples.
• Dynamic four-color design throughout showcases vivid sample ads to clearly illustrate advertising strategies and trends.
• Engaging end-of-chapter exercises encourage creative thinking.
• Insightful stories from seasoned advertising creative professionals and rising stars provide an inspiring picture of the industry.

Tom Altstiel (MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; BA, Valparaiso University) has spent over 40 years in the marketing communication business developing creative strategy and content for broadcast, video, print, web, sales promotion, direct marketing, social media, and public relations. He was creative director at three agencies, including owner/partner in PKA Marketing. Tom is currently principal of TBA Marketing Group LLC, a creative firm focusing on strategic solutions and content for business-to-business clients and non-profit organizations. Tom has developed creative work for a wide variety consumer, B2B clients and non-profits, including Toyota, Snap-on Tools, CASE, Johnson Controls, Evinrude, Komatsu, Rexnord, 3M, FiServ, and Concordia University. Tom was an adjunct professor at Marquette University from 1999-2018, teaching Copywriting, Advanced Copywriting, Campaigns, and Ideation/Content Development. Follow him on Linked In.

Jean Grow is the Founder and Chief TruthsTeller at GROW – a Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) consultancy. After 20 years of teaching advertising and mentoring students, at Marquette University, all the while conducting research on the lack of women in advertising creative departments and the dire need for diversity across the entire advertising industry, Jean pivoted away from academia to pursue her passion – building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workspaces. Combining her deep and emotive understanding of DEI with her research acumen and advertising industry experience, Dr. Grow launched GROW - a DEI consultancy. You can find her at jeangrow.com or follow her @jeangrow and on LinkedIn.