| BENCHMARK 4: It should
differentiate the brand |
'Heineken
refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach' does this
brilliantly. When the line needed refreshing, it was extended
in later executions to show seemingly impossible situations,
such as a deserted motorway in the rush hour, with the line
'Only Heineken can do this', and lately showing unlikely
but admirable situations, such as a group of sanitation
engineers trying to keep the noise down to the comment:
'How refreshing! How Heineken!'
The distinction here is that the line should
depict a characteristic about the brand that sets it apart
from its competitors. In the above examples, we see Swan
Light, an Australian low-alcohol beer. 'Won't make a pom
tiddly' is brilliant. It plays on the expression 'tiddly
pom', the sort of noise a stiff-upper-lip Brit would say
in the colonies when reviewing the troops as they march
past, and, of course, a Brit to an Oz is a pom. And what
could be worse than a tiddly (tipsy) pom? This line gets
my vote as one of the all-time greats. And it runs on double-decker
bus 'super sides'.
Here is a selection of lines that deliver
differentiation: |