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Think small: The story of those Volkswagen ads

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128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

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Frank Rowsome Jr.

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November 28, 2020
A favorite accounting of the brilliant 1960s ad campaign for VW of America by Doyle Dane Bernbach [DDB]. The ads were ground-breaking in their subversion of the standard advertising practice - *especially* in the automotive realm - of magic hyperbole.

The budding agency used understatement both in their humor and in their design unorthodoxy, taking a view-shifting approach to selling something fairly new to the American market - modest, reliable imported German cars.

The campaign was not only wildly successful at selling Volkswagens, it put DDB in the top tier of American ad agencies.
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