Creative Strategy

The sportswear industry is dominated by Nike and Adidas, which together hold around eighty three percent of the industry’s market share in revenue (Biddnessetc). Since both have such a high demand of customers they have created multiple distribution centers in the United States and in other countries. To stay ahead of the other industries both companies concentrate on promoting and creating new and innovative products.

Advertisements come in various shapes, sizes, and mediums, and as humans, we are constantly surrounded by them. Whether they are on TV, radio, or in a magazine, there is no way that we can escape them. They all have their target audience for whom the advertisers have specifically designed the ad. When a company produces a commercial, their main objective is to get their product to sell. This is a multibillion-dollar industry and the advertisers study all the ways that they can attract their audience’s attention. The producers of advertisements have many tactics and strategies they use when producing an ad to get consumers to buy their product. These include things such as rhetorical

Nowadays, commercial is becoming a major part of mass media. It does not only try to inform people about the availability and attractiveness of industrial good productions but also contribute to build an awareness of resources and alternatives for customer in daily life. There are thousands of commercials, so to attract customer, advertisers use various kinds on their commercial to make people aware of the firm's products, services or brands. Though they use various kinds on the commercial, the main goal of advertising tries to convince customer to buy their products, or do what they want. An excellent commercial will create a deep impression on their customers, or who want to become their customers by using three classical appeals:

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Creative strategizing includes choosing the correct advertising appeal. Advertising appeals have been used throughout the years to create successful ads. Seven major types of ad appeals exist and they include: fear, humor, sex, rationality, music, emotion, and scarcity. After reviewing the creative brief, the type of appeal should be chosen for the product/service. More than one appeal can be employed if account executives and their client feel it is appropriate.

Adidas was founded in Germany in 1920.it became an important supplier of footwear after Second World War. Later, it expanded its footwear line to include fringe sports. While Nike is the global leader in athletic shoe market, Adidas is nothing more than the second place in that market because it started its business in the field of soccer shoe market. So, Adidas could not handle the whole athletic shoe market. Later on, Adidas wanted to expand its capability on the shoe market. In order to satisfy the market’s need in depth, Adidas also went for the basketball market.

Adidas is one of the most famous manufacturers of top-quality sporting goods. It is the market leader in sporting good alongside with its competitive rival Nike. It also consists of Reebok Sportswear Company.They produce different types and variety of products to all age categories such as bags, shoes, shirts and more. The Adidas group, headquartered in Herzogenaurach (Germany) started in 18th August 1920 by Adolf Dassler. Adidas witnessed its first international success in 1954 and that is when the German have won the soccer world championship. Adidas has 169 branches worldwide and total revenue of 11.9 M Euros. Adidas is well known of sponsoring many sports events such as world cup or Olympics in addition to the use of its products

Professor Jeff Richards once said “Creative without strategy is called art, but creative with strategy is called advertising.” This quote is basically stating that advertisements use a lot of techniques and strategies to convince and persuade audience. Particularly advertisements use psychological feelings to persuade you positively or negatively towards a product. Advertising affects youth’s psychology by triggering feelings that make you want to buy their product.

Advertisements share one common goal, that is to draw to people’s attention. In order to accomplish this goal, advertisements contain a headline, visual, and layout. For instance, advertisements such as Sparkle creatively and thoughtfully uses the tactics above to convince people to purchase Sparkle paper towels.

Adidas is a sportswear manufacturing company started by Adolf Dassler. Adidas group has incorporated brands including Adidas, Reebok, TaylorMade-Adidas and Rockport. The wings of the company are widespread and have assimiliated other productions including handbags, shirts, spectacles, watches, balls, and sportswear. Adidas is being the largest company that sells footwear in the European market and have achieved a momentous market share at the global platform. Adidas has achieved phenomenal sale and have reached the pinnacle of success on the global scale with other international footwear companies (McDonald & Milne, 1999).

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In the present competitive era, all company communicators seek to put some information in their contacts or customers ' mind that affect their decision to purchase. Companies’ efforts to create attention to their messages on the one hand and the increasing advertising messages, on the other hand, have created a significant paradox in the field of advertising. In such circumstances, the advertiser may spend many costs without reaching the target without the necessary ensuring of their ads ' effectiveness. Therefore, the importance of this research is what all have believed today. The purpose of this research is to evaluate and explain the relationship between the logical advertising appeals, consumer cognitive information processing styles, and advertising effectiveness. The present study is applied in terms of the purpose, and descriptive and correlational in terms of data collection. The required data were collected using inventory and distributing it among 133 students. SPSS and LISREL software are used to analyze the data. The results showed that advertising appeal has a direct and positive impact on the logical process style and the effectiveness of advertising. The hypothesis of the effectiveness of logical processing style on advertising effectiveness is rejected. Thus, advertising companies should conduct their marketing

1. What is adidas’ position in the athletic shoe market? How does the brand seem to be doing in this market? Position: the position of adidas has transferred from “leading supplier of soccer footwear worldwide” to “leading sport brand”. Adidas was founded in Germany in 1920. In 1995, it became a public company as well as the leading supplier of soccer footwear due to its great performance of footwear sales. In 1998, adidas began to move into the U.S. market. Adidas doubled its U.S. market share within only one year, so it hoped to continue to make big move in following years. In its way to U.S. market, adidas confront with the

Adidas Group, as one of the world’s retail leaders in sportswear, has as primary target the sports participants, including high performance athletes, as well as non-athletes who are inspired by those at the highest level of their sport, and those that really love sports as part of their lives.

Adidas is the second largest sportswear and apparels manufacturer (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker, 2009). By far, Adidas holds a market share of 22% (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker, 2009). Adidas had also registered the infamous ‘3 stripes’ as its trademark (Berntson, Jarnemo & Philipson, 2006). The founders of Adidas, Adolf and Rudolf Dassler had the vision of providing athletes with the best suited pair of shoes for their respective sports (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker, 2009). In efforts of achieving that, Adidas is had used the strategy of collaborating with important athletes to gain their insights on the products offered (Berntson, Jarnemo & Philipson, 2006). This contributes to the fact that Adidas had earned