The Naked Brand is a Story about how corporations can help save the planet one small step at a time. It’s an introduction to a future where companies tell the truth and the issue of transparency advertising effects are addresses in order to create better products and a planet.
Rajiv Srinivasan is a Captain of the U.S army who says that substantial amounts of money can go out on advertisements to state a pitch, but people can now go and give first hand accounts on what is happening in the military. Corporations have now grown bigger, using more resources and spending more than ever before, yet the consumer still has the upper hand on one thing, advertising.
Porter Gale, former CEO of Virgin America says that there is …show more content…
People no longer buy off the internet without checking the reviews.
Yvon Chouinard is the Founder of Patagonia and voices that traditional advertising is finished. Yvons way of advertising was to make Patagonia as transparent as possible. Jill Dumain, the director of environmental Policy for Patagonia states that not talking about what’s wrong is not telling the whole truth. This is why Yvon’s company started the Footprint chronicles, where the story of the products are made available to customers. Jill mentions that honestly turns confrontation in conversation.
Unilever and Walmart are also advertising how they are striving towards reducing carbon footprint, which ultimately saved millions of dollars. Similarly Alex Bogusky, the Founder of COMMON, says that conversations in corporate America were restricting and fake. He quit his marketing job after 20 years to start the pilot program Common Cycles, to COMMON. Alex’ goal is to launch socially conscious ventures over the next few years and feels like one companies can make a big difference for a struggling town. Alex believes that transparency can either happen to you or you participate it, and when it happens, it isn’t …show more content…
Carter Brokaw, the Chief revenge officer of Slacker Radio, feels that advertising itself is the link between consumer and advertiser, but the definition needs to evolve.
Before the advertising budgets were shifted but did not give consumers a platform to feel inspirited to change the world. PepsiCo had decide to give away $20 million as a sort of different investment. By starting this, projects to change the world are funded.
The CEO of Under Armor, Kevin Plank started a green clothing line. He provides a fairly prices, recyclable and efficient products that consumers find a product from heaven. He believes in the motto which is also used in the corporate world, ‘do more for less.’
‘Less’ is also the trust in which consumers no longer believe in CEO’s and advertising. Dara o’Rourke (Co-founder of Good Guide) created the app which puts transparency in the hands of the consumer in order to get through all the marketing to get to the essence of the