大卫·奥格威 英文版简介
奥美公司英文简介
History[edit]Ogilvy & Mather was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. After a short and successful career in sales Ogilvy had been employed in London in 1935 by his brother Francis Ogilvy at the British ad shop Mather & Crowther which had been founded by Edmund Mather in 1850.[1] Mather & Crowther sent David Ogilvy to the US in 1938. Following a ten year gap during which time he worked in research, for British Intelligence during WWII and a sabbatical period, Ogilvy in 1948 started a US agency with the backing of Mather & Crowther, who by then had merged with the Benson agency group in the UK. Ogilvy opened his US shop as "Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson, & Mather" in Manhattan with a staff of two and no clients.[2] The company became a leading worldwide agency by the 1960s.[citation needed] Central to its growth was its strategy of building brands such as American Express, BP, Ford, Barbie, Maxwell House, IBM, Kodak, Nestlé, Cadbury and Unilever brands Pond's and Dove.[3]Ogilvy & Mather was built on Ogilvy's principles, in particular, that the function of advertising is to sell and that successful advertising for any product is based on information about its consumer.His entry into the company of giants started with several iconic campaigns: "The man in the Hathaway shirt"with his aristocratic eye patch; "The man from Schweppes is here" introduced Commander Whitehead, the elegant, bearded Brit,bringing Schweppes (and "Schweppervesence") to the United States.; "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock"; and "Pablo Casals is coming home – to Puerto Rico", a campaign that Ogilvy said helped change the image of a country and was his proudest achievement. "Only Dove is one-quarter moisturizing cream". This campaign helped Dove become the top selling soap in the U.S.In 1989, The Ogilvy Group was purchased by WPP Group.Clients[edit]Ogilvy & Mather board has produced work for a wide range of leading brands, including:American Express (since 1962)[5]British American Tobacco (since 1981)[5]Amway (since 2009)[6]Coca-Cola Company (since 2001)[7]Louis Vuitton (since 2006)Controversies[edit]Ogilvy caused some controversy in 2004 when a reportedly discarded video advertisement for the Ford SportKa hatchback began spreading virally via email. The 40-second video, which shows a lifelike computer-generated cat being decapitated by the car's sunroof was apparently rejected by Ford, but still made its way onto the internet, sparking outrage among bloggers and animal rights groups.[22][23]Ogilvy also has been involved with the notorious Asia Pulp & Paper, a large logging company that has been convicted of illegal logging in three countries, and recently has built roads illegally into the last remaining habitats of the critically endangered Sumatran Tiger, but spent large sums on global advertising campaigns claiming 'sustainability beyond compliance'.[24]In 2005, Shona Seifert and Thomas Early, two former directors of Ogilvy & Mather, were convicted of one count of conspiring to defraud the government and nine counts of filing false claims for Ogilvy over-billing advertising work done for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy account. In an e-mail, Seifert stated "I'll wring the money out of [the ONDCP], I promise". Seifert and Early were sentenced to 18 and 14 months in prison, respectively. Seifert also was ordered to pay a $125,000 fine, in addition to writing a "code of ethics" for the ad industry as part of 400 hours of community service. Ogilvy & Mather repaid $1.8 million to the government to settle a civil suit based on the same billing issues and continues to produceanti-drug spots for the government.[25][26][27][28]Ogilvy Government Relations, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ogilvy Public Relations, is credited with playing an instrumental role in killing the controversial 2005 bid by Chinese oil company CNOOC to buy Unocal Corporation, which would then go on to merge with Chevron Corporation, an OGR client.[21]The company was involved with a controversy in May 2009 when a Clio Award was given to a campaign for the A & E History Channel. One of the associated images compared the American deaths at Pearl Harbor with the Japanese deaths after the bombing of Hiroshima.[29]In September 2010, An Ogilvy & Mather produced radio ad for ARCO a U.S. based oil and gasoline company caused a controversy when the advertisement which used a sped up version of the Emergency Alert System header tones caused EAS decoders at radio stations across the country to unmute and activate causing a false emergency message to be sent out to monitoring television and radio stations as well as local cable systems which had their programming locked out and replaced with the primary EAS station's emergency message which in this case ended up being the ARCO ad. The situation came to a head when one radio station reported that it's EAS decode activated at least 5 times during the week because of the ARCO ad. The Society of Broadcast Engineers issued an alert bulletin to all broadcasters warning them about the ad.[30]Initially the Federal Communications Commission had issued Notice of Apparent Liability to several radio stations untilit was discovered that the ads were the culprit and the header tones were most like downloaded by producers from the Internet. Ogilvy and Mather and ARCO pulled the ad and apologized. The FCC is investigating whether or not Ogilvy and Mather violated FCC Regulation CFR 47 11.45 which states "No person may transmit or cause to transmit the EAS codes or Attention Signal, or a recording or simulation thereof, in any circumstance other than in an actual National, State or Local Area emergency or authorized test of the EAS".In 1972 Ogilvy & Mather, Sydney first developed the line "Don't Leave Home Without It" as a means of educating Australians how to use the country's first credit card. Created by Ian Latham and David Prentice.[citation needed] Three years later in 1975, the line was adapted by Ogilvy & Mather New York to "Don't Leave Home Without Them' ad campaign for American Express Traveler's Cheques, featuring Oscar Award-winning actor Karl Malden. The "Don't Leave Home Without It" slogan was revived in 2005 for the prepaid American Express Travelers Cheque Card. After Malden's departure, American Express continued to feature celebrities, including Jerry Seinfeld, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Wes Anderson, Ken Watanabe, Ellen DeGeneres and Conan O'Brien.In 2003, Ogilvy and Mather released the infamous Miller Lite Catfight campaign. The ad, which featured two very beautiful women (Tanya Ballinger and Kitana Baker) first fighting in a fountain and later in a mud pit, was well received by males and made the girls instant celebrities, but generated significant controversy over its depiction of women. Further controversy was generated over an uncensoredversion of the ad, which ended in the two muddy girls falling in love and kissing.In 2007, Ogilvy Stockholm developed the "Animals in the Womb" campaign for Ford Flexifuel, which was nominated for the Cannes Lion Award and for the Guldägget Award in 2008.[citation needed]历史[编辑]由大卫·奥格威，奥美成立于1948年。
大卫奥格威——广告界的教皇
广告信条中有几句 1 不要打“短打”，你必须努力，每次都要全垒打。 2 时时掌握主动，不要让广告主支使才去做，要 用出其不意 、妥协的神技，让他们惊讶。 3 一旦决定广告活动的实施，不要徘徊，不要妥协， 不要混乱，要单刀直入地进行，彻底地猛干。 广告本文原则中有几句 1 要写得真实，而且要使这个真实加上魅力的色彩。 2 利用名人推荐，名人的推荐比无名人的推荐更具 有效果。 广告插图准则中有几句 1 把故事性的诉求（story appeal ），放进插图中 2 避免历史性的插图，旧的东西，并不能替你卖东 西。
₯ 成长。 ₯ 广告界背景 ：美国广告业世界领先，广告泛滥， 人们生活中充斥着各色广告，美国人陷入广告覆盖 的世界。 1953年，进入广告业仅仅四年，大卫奥格威被 认定在过去的50年里，美国广告业从来没出现过如 此杰出的人物。广告业的天才。 大卫奥格威：“我的生命在不同的空间里度过 了几个阶段：在巴黎做厨师、在苏格兰卖炉具、为 好莱坞做民意调查、服务于情报机构、在阿米什人 那里做农民，然后创办广告公司。”
出身英国的大卫· 奥格威，是现代广告业的大师级传奇人 物，他一手创立了奥美广告公司，开启了现代广告业的新 纪元，他确立了奥美这个品牌，启蒙了对消费者研究的运 用，同时创造出一种崭新的广告文化。 1948年，奥格威 在纽约以6000美元创办了奥美广告公司，随后以创作许多 富有创意的广告而赢得盛誉。他的作品机智而迷人，但最 重要的是：他坚持它们必须有助于销售。他把广告业的经 营和专业化推向顶峰，他的价值观就出了一个全球性的传 播网路，他睿智隽永的风格不但塑造了奥美广告，同时更 深深影响着整个广告业的发展
1982年10月份的《扩张》杂志特别对工业革命做了专题报 道，在文中列出11位对工业革命具有贡献的人士，奥格威 名列其中，他被冠以这样一个称号——《血；思想与啤酒》 《中大西洋人》 《财富》 《油墨》 《麦迪逊大道之王》
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奥美人 每年，奥美招收的应届毕业生比业内仸何一家公司都 要多。奥美在对人才的培讪和培养上也仍丌吝啬。你 丌难发现，很多业内的领导人物——除了奥美，还有 很多业内其他公司的——在刚毕业的时候都是在奥美 起步的。正是为此，Campaign杂志还给了我们一个 "奥美大学"的称号。
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九阴真经
广告创作的思考模式工具九阴真经 迚行广告创作时的九个要素： ｌ、行销目的（ＭａｒｋｅｔｉｎｇＡｉｍ）； ２、广告扮演的觇色（ＲｏｌｅｏｆＡｄｖｅｒｔｉｓｉｎｇ）； ３、品牉定义（ＢｒａｎｄＤｅｆｉｎｉｔｉｏｎ）； ４、竞争范畴（Ｃｏｍｐｅｔｉｔｉｏｎ）； ５、目标消费群（ＴａｒｇｅｔＭａｒｋｅｔ） ６．我们现在何处？（Ｗｈｅｒｅａｒｅｗｅｎｏｗ？）； ７、我们将往何处？（Ｗｈｅｒｅａｒｅｗｅｇｏｉｎｇ？）；８ 、按钮（Ｂｕｔｔｏｎ）； ９、支持点（Ｓｕｐｐｏｒｔ）
大卫奥格威给青年人的宝藏
大卫奥格威给青年人的宝藏大卫·奥格威（David Ogilvy），是20世纪最伟大的广告传奇之一，也是奥美广告公司的创始人之一，他的广告创意和营销理念影响了整个广告业的发展。
他的作品和思想成为了广告史上的经典，并延续至今。
除了他在广告领域的成就，奥格威还给青年人留下了一份宝藏，那就是他的思想和人生智慧。
在他的著作和演讲中，我们可以找到许多宝贵的经验和建议，这些都对青年人的成长和发展具有重要的启发和指导作用。
本文将会探讨大卫奥格威给青年人的宝藏，希望能为广大青年朋友提供一些有益的借鉴和启示。
大卫奥格威给青年人的第一个宝藏是品格与诚信。
在他的一生中，奥格威始终坚持正直、信念和诚实。
他曾经说过：“无论如何，我不打算说谎，无论这意味着什么。
”这种坚定的品格和诚信精神不仅贯穿于他的广告事业，也影响了他的人生观念和处事方式。
奥格威深知，诚信是人格的基础，只有坚守诚信，才能赢得信任和尊重。
对于青年人来说，品格和诚信是更为重要的品质，它们不仅对个人的成长和发展有着重要的影响，还关系到社会的和谐与稳定。
青年人应该学习奥格威的品格和诚信，坚持自己的信念，端正为人处事的态度，勇敢面对挑战和困难，不负众望，努力成为一个真正的诚信之人。
大卫奥格威给青年人的第二个宝藏是勤奋与恒心。
在奥格威的广告事业中，勤奋和恒心是他成功的不二法门。
奥格威曾经说过：“只有你甘愿用心勉力，东山再起的希望才能实现。
”这句话道出了奥格威一生不断努力和追求卓越的奋斗精神。
他认为，只有勤奋和恒心才能使一个人取得成功，他自己就是最好的例子。
对于青年人来说，勤奋和恒心同样是非常重要的品质，只有不断努力学习和工作，才能在竞争激烈的社会中脱颖而出，实现自己的人生梦想。
青年人应该学习奥格威的勤奋和恒心，不畏艰难，不怕失败，牢记奋斗目标，坚定信念，努力拼搏，追求卓越，努力实现自己的人生价值。
大卫奥格威给青年人的第三个宝藏是创新与创意。
在广告创意方面，奥格威是无人能及的传奇人物，他的创意和创新成就了奥美广告公司的辉煌。
大卫·奥格威生平
大卫·奥格威生平奥格威的广告生涯，开创了一个时代。
他诸多的言论与著作，至今仍深刻影响着现代广告业。
从来没有任何一个人，像他一样，给广告业留下这么多真知灼见。
英伦岁月公元1911年6月23日,大卫·奥格威出生于英国伦敦西南的萨里郡赫斯利村。
他就学于爱丁堡费提兹学校和牛津基督教会学，但并没有能在此取得毕业证书。
厨师大卫大学肄业后，奥格威前往巴黎皇家饭店就业，展开了职业生涯，在那儿他学到了纪律和管理，后来决定离开，因为他认为“如果继续留在皇家饭店，就必须面对奴工般低微的工资、残酷的压力以及永无止境的疲惫”。
于是他返回英国。
推销员大卫回到英国的大卫，在伦敦挨家挨户地推销厨具，他把炉具卖给各式各样的人，还包括修女、醉汉等。
这段经历为奥格威人生的另一段传奇埋下了伏笔。
1935年，他还写了一本销售手册（财富杂志评为“有史以来最好的销售手册”），里面不乏金玉良言，比如：“你对产品的好处着墨越多，对客户的拜访越是密集，你拿到的订单也就越多；不过，千万别把接听电话的次数误以为是销售的成效。
”情报专家大卫1938年，奥格威移居美国，为乔治·盖洛普曾在新泽西州的民意测验机构工作。
盖洛普严谨的调查方式和忠于事实的研究态度对奥格威影响深远。
二战期间，奥格威在英国大使馆驻华盛顿的情报机构任职期间，为国家政策和国家安全方面写过大量分析和建议；在其中一篇报告中，奥格威从消费主义和爱国主义的观点出发，去诠释并推测人类的行为，文中大胆建议“将盖洛普的技术应用于秘密情报领域”。
战争的最后一年，奥格威所提的这个建议，就被艾森豪威尔的心理战委员会所采用。
农夫大卫战后，奥格威在宾夕法尼亚州的兰开斯特乡村买了农场，生活在与现代文明隔绝的阿米什（Amish）社区。
奥格威和妻子在这儿平静、祥和、富足地过了几年。
不过他最终还是觉得自己无法成为一个真正的农夫，于是又迁回了纽约。
广告人大卫1948年，他创建奥美广告公司的前身，总部在纽约。
大卫·奥格威与哈撒韦衬衫
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正文：美国人开始认识道：穿一套高档西服， 却配以一件大量生产的廉价衬衫，既破坏整体 效果，而且滑稽透顶。因此，哈萨威衬衫的日 渐流行，正是它所处阶层的需要。 首先，哈莎威衬衫耐穿性极强——可以穿 很多年。其次，因为哈莎威衬衫精致裁剪的衣 领，能使你看起来更年轻、更高贵。整件衬衫 不惜工本的剪裁，会令你觉得更为舒适。下摆 很长，可以深入你的裤腰。纽扣是用珍珠母做 成的——非常大，也非常有男子气。甚至缝纫 上也存在着一种南北战争前的高雅。 最重要的是哈萨威衬衫使用从全世界各地 进口的最有名的布料来缝制他们的衬衫—－从 英国来的棉毛混纺的斜纹布，从苏格兰奥斯特 拉德地方来的毛织波纹绸，从西印度群岛来的 手织绸，从英格兰曼彻斯特来的宽幅细毛布， 从巴黎来的亚麻细布。穿着如此完美风格的衬 衫，定会使您得到超乎衬衫本身的众多满足。 哈萨威是缅因州小里 工作了整整114年。 假如你想在离你最近的店家买到哈萨威衬 衫，请写明信片到：”C.F.哈莎萨威，缅因州， 沃特威”，即复。
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奥格威与“品牌形象”理论
1、品牌与品牌的相似点越多，选择品牌的理智考虑就越少；品牌形象塑 造是创作具有销售力广告的一个必要手段；
2、形象指品牌个性。最终决定品牌市场地位的是品牌总体上的性格，而 不是产品间微不足道的差异； 3、品牌形象要反映购买者的自我意象； 4、每一则广告都是对品牌的长期投资，品牌形象是一种长期的战略，因 此，广告应保持一贯的风格和形象，尽力去维护一个好的品牌形象，并 使之不断丰满； 5、影响品牌形象的因素很多，包括产品名称、价格、包装、广告风格、 赞助等。
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george orwell英文介绍
george orwell英文介绍George Orwell was an English novelist, journalist, and social commentator whose work captured the dystopian realities of the 20th century. He was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, India in 1903 to a civil servant in the British colonial government. His experiences growing up in colonial India and later in England, working as a police officer in Burma, and fighting in the Spanish Civil War all influenced his writings and political views.Orwell is perhaps best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, both of which explore totalitarianism and the dangers ofpolitical propaganda. Animal Farm, published in 1945, tells the story of a group of farm animals who overthrow their human owner and run the farm themselves, only to have their new leaders become corrupt and oppressive. Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, is set in a dystopian futurewhere the government has complete control over every aspect of citizens' lives.Throughout his writing career, Orwell championed democratic socialism and criticized totalitarianism in all its forms. Despite being a committed socialist, Orwell was critical of the Soviet Union and its Communist regime, which he saw as a perversion of socialism. This led to him being shunned by some on the left and criticized by some on the right.Orwell was also a prolific journalist, writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines throughout his career. He was particularly interested in social and political issues, and his non-fiction work often focused on poverty, inequality, and the struggles of the working class.One of Orwell's most famous essays is "Politics and the English Language," in which he criticized the use of cliches, jargon, and meaningless wordsin political discourse. He argued that this kind of language was used to obscure the truth and manipulate the masses, and that clear, conciselanguage was vital for democracy to function properly.Orwell died in 1950 at the age of 46 from tuberculosis. His legacy is still felt today in his iconic novels and essays, which continue to provide insight into the dangers of totalitarianism and the importance of freedom and democracy. In 2020, his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four experienced a surge in sales and popularity due to its depiction of a dystopian society where the government controls every aspect of citizens' lives, resonating with many people during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.Overall, George Orwell was a complex and influential figure in 20th century literature and politics, whose work continues to be widely read and studied today.。
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He didn’t achieve knighthood, but he was made a Commander of the Order of British Empire (CBE) in 1967. He was elected to the U.S. Advertising Hall of Fame in 1977 and to France's "Order of Arts and Letters" in 1990. He chaired the Public Participation Committee for Lincoln Center in Manhattan. He was appointed Chairman of theUnited Negro College Fund in 1968, and trustee on the Executive Council of the World Wildlife Fund in 1975. Mr. Ogilvy was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1979.
One of his greatest successes was "Only Dove is one-quarter moisturizing cream". This campaign helped Dove become the top selling soap in thethat the best way to get new clients was to do notable work for his existing clients. Success in his early campaigns helped Ogilvy get big clients such as Rolls-Royce and Shell. New clients followed and Ogilvy's company grew quickly.
After the war, Ogilvy bought a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and lived among the Amish. The atmosphere of "serenity, abundance, and contentment" kept Ogilvy and his wife in Pennsylvania for several years, but eventually he admitted his limitations as a farmer and moved to Manhattan.
At Gallup (1938–1948)
In 1938, Ogilvy immigrated to the United States, where he went to work for George Gallup's Audience Research Institute in New Jersey. Ogilvy cites Gallup as one of the major influences on his thinking, emphasizing meticulous research methods and adherence to reality to him.
The man in the Hathaway shir t" with his aristocratic eye pat ch which used Baron George Wrangell as model; "The man from Schweppes is here" introduced Commander Edwa rd Whitehead, the elegant bea rded Brit, bringing Schweppe s (and "Schweppervesence") to the U.S.
Ogilvy & Mather was built on David Ogilvy's principles, in particular, that the function of advertising is to sell and that successful advertising for any product is based on information about its consumer.
The Ogilvy & Mather years (1949–1973)
After working as a chef, researcher, and farmer, Ogilvy started his agency with the backing of Mather and Crowther, the London agency being run by his elder brother, Francis, which later acquired another London agency, S. H. Benson. The new agency in New York was called Ogilvy, Benson, and Mather. David Ogilvy had just $6,000 in his account when he started the agency. He writes in Confessions of an Advertising Man that initially, he struggled to get clients. Ogilvy also admitted (referring to the pioneer of British advertising Bobby Bevan, the chairman of Benson) "I was in awe of him but Bevan never took notice of me!" They would meet later, however.
大卫· 大卫·奥格威 David Ogilvy
David Mackenzie Ogilvy, (June 23, 1911–July 21, 1999), was a notable advertising executive. He has often been called "The Father of Advertising." In 1962, 《TIME》called him TIME called "the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry." He was known for a career of expanding the bounds of both creativity and morality in advertising.
Early life (1911–1938)
David Mackenzie Ogilvy was born on June 23, 1911 at West Horsley, Surrey in England. His mother was Irish. His father was a Gaelic-speaking Highlander from Scotland who was a classics scholar and a financial broker. Ogilvy attended St Cyprian's School,Eastbourne, on reduced fees because of his father's straitened circumstances and won a scholarship at age thirteen to Fettes College, in Edinburgh. In 1929, he again won a scholarship, this time in History to Christ Church, Oxford.
Without the scholarships he would have been unable to attend Fettes or Oxford University because his father's business was badly hit by the depression of the mid-1920s. His studies were not successful, however, and he left Oxford for Paris in 1931 where he became an apprentice chef in the Majestic Hotel. After a year, he returned to Scotland and started selling Aga cooking stoves, door-to-door. His success at this marked him out to his employer, who asked him to write an instruction manual, The Theory and Practice of Selling the AGA cooker, for the other salesmen. Thirty years later this manual remained as a resource read by Fortune magazine editors. They called it the finest sales instruction manual ever written.