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Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time, 2009a

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Figure 5.4 Br<strong>and</strong> Tags<br />

Dig Deeper<br />

The logic beh<strong>in</strong>d deprivation research is to figure out how loyal consumers are to a br<strong>and</strong> by tak<strong>in</strong>g it<br />

away from them. Dunk<strong>in</strong>’ Donuts forced a group of its customers to dr<strong>in</strong>k Starbucks coffee for a week<br />

<strong>in</strong>stead. Verizon Wireless did someth<strong>in</strong>g even more impressive: the company got a group of teens to give<br />

up us<strong>in</strong>g cell phones for an entire weekend.<br />

Burger K<strong>in</strong>g gets hard-core Whopper fans to go without their burger fixes <strong>and</strong> keep journals about how<br />

they deal with this <strong>in</strong>dignity. This strategy evolved <strong>in</strong>to a recent successful ad campaign the cha<strong>in</strong>’s ad<br />

agency Crisp<strong>in</strong> Porter + Bogusky called “Whopper Freakout.” The TV <strong>and</strong> onl<strong>in</strong>e ads captured real<br />

customers at two Nevada outlets who were <strong>in</strong>formed that the Whopper was no longer on the menu. These<br />

were not happy campers: one customer cried, “What are you go<strong>in</strong>g to put on the logo now—home of the<br />

‘Whatever we got’?” [4] For a closer look at this campaign, check<br />

outhttp://www.whopperfreakout.com/embed.swf.<br />

SS+K Spotlight<br />

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