MEDIA PLANNING & BUYING: IN FOCUS
Published: January 25, 2006
Dawn Anfuso
Best Media Plans of 2005
 
Introduction

Every so often there's an advertising campaign that makes you take notice, gets media attention, and sometimes even becomes part of our cultural lexicon. Think "Where's the Beef?," Apple's notorious Super Bowl ad, and, of course, that dancing, singing Subservient Chicken.

Naturally, not all campaigns receive the same notoriety, despite success for deploying out-of-the-box creative, brilliant media placement and, most importantly, achieving their intended goals.

We asked top media planners and creative people to tell us what their favorite campaign of 2005 was, and to explain why.

Here are the panelists and their choices.



Meridee Alter, RPA

Campaign: Audi's Art of the Heist


Derek M. Leedy, Mediasmith, Inc.

Campaign: Nike's Meet The Lebron's


Jim Meskauskas, Meskauskas, Inc.

Campaign: Burger King's Sith Sense


Doug Schumacher, Basement, Inc.

Campaign: California Milk Processing Board's Got Milk? "Pouring"


Dave Smith, Mediasmith, Inc.

Campaign: XBox 2's Halo 2 launch


Erika Kathryn Nardini, Digitas

Campaign: Saturn's Who's Next? sponsorship on Yahoo! Music

Author Notes:
Dawn Anfuso is senior editor of iMedia Connection.

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