Brands & Humour

Brands & Humour

The Approval of Italian Grandmothers, Part 2

...Humour and Brand Purpose

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Paddy Gilmore | HumourScope®
Jan 16, 2023
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Here’s a dilemma for you:

You run a business selling pasta.

An ad agency comes along to you with two taglines for your brand:

Live life generously.

And:

Grudgingly approved by Italian grandmothers.

Which one do you choose? The high, moral stance of the former, or the more easy-going humour of the latter?

All this matters because the tagline can become, i…

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