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Al-Futtaim IKEA ‘adzzz’ for bedding ‘harnesses the power of a yawn’

Evoking a sensation rather than merely pushing a product, the Al-Futtaim IKEA ads lull people to sleep on their soft, comfortable bedding.

Clearly, advertising has changed drastically. While brands, marketers, production houses, and creatives across the globe are crafting films to ‘wake people up’, the IKEA Complete Sleep campaign to promote the launch of its new bedding collection aims to lull people to sleep.

How? That’s a great question. The creative campaign ideated and implemented by Memac Ogilvy harnesses the power of a yawn. which are notoriously contagious, to evoke a sensation rather than solely pushing a product, thus gently offering the soft, comfortable bedding as the solution for the sleep that naturally rises to the fore.

“Your dog yawns, you yawn. You yawn when someone yawns in a movie. You probably yawned


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.