Honda shot this ad 606 times. Sales jumped 28%.
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Honda needed to sell the Accord.
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So instead of listing specs or showing a car carve through mountain roads, they built a Rube Goldberg machine out of actual Accord parts.
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The crazy part is it 606 takes with minimal CGI.
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Most ads at the time looked like a Transformers movie. This one looked real. Because it was real.
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And because it was real, people trusted it.
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Sales went up 28%.
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Honda never once had to say "we build impressive cars."
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There's a massive difference between telling your audience what to think and showing them something they can't forget.
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The takeaway? Show your audience what makes you different. Like actually show them. And the sale becomes the easy part.