Never Say No To Panda

Posted onMarch 17, 2011 Edit on by Christopher Berry

The Panda Cheese commercials are brilliant, and I’d like to believe, a product of scientific advertising. I have no basis for that, but I’m heaping praise on the creative and the analyst who worked on it.

You can see the series of commercials here.

Specific elements:

  • Divergent use of a violent panda.
  • Repetitious use of a song across all five ads.
  • Consistent direction (ie. over the head reaction shots from Panda POV).
  • Desired behavior demonstrated (“Get another one…”).
  • Divergent tag line, phrased in the negative. “Never Say No To Panda”, which contradicts the affirmative bias we’ve had for years.

Brilliant – check it out.