12/08/2008Advertising Works books

Our annually published Advertising Works (Adworks) books have thought-provoking chapters on a number of topics as well as containing the very best case histories from that year's IPA Effectiveness Awards. These books are available to buy online from this site via the CASE STUDIES tab or via www.warc.com

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Details of all available Advertising Works books (Adworks books) can be found under 'Required Reading' below. Please click on the relevant Adworks book link below to view member offers, book reviews, extracts and order online.

The latest in the series,  Advertising Works 20, based on the 2011 IPA Effectiveness Awards, is now available.  Order yours here.


You can also view, for free, any number of our 18 brand films (average 8 minutes) and hear first hand from the people who've been involved in the most successful campaigns of recent years: BT, Johnnie Walker, Marks and Spencer, Orange, PG Tips. Video section .

Required Reading

Advertising Works 12 book

Advertising Works 12 contains the strategies behind 23 of the UK's most successful brands compiled in one book from the award-winning case studies from the prestigious 2002 IPA Effectiveness Awards. These include: Jamie Oliver's Sainsbury's and Gary Lineker's Walkers Crisps campaigns as well as winning entries from Hovis, Domino's Pizza, Volkswagen, Skoda, Police Recruitment and the Grand Prix winning Barnardo's. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Advertising Works 13 book

The Advertising Works 13 book contains the strategies behind 19 of the UK's most successful brands compiled from the award-winning case studies from the prestigious 2004 IPA Effectiveness Awards. These include: Virgin Mobile and Honda campaigns as well as winning entries from Lynx Pulse, The Number 118 118, The Guardian, British Airways, Marks & Spencer and the Grand Prix winning O2. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Advertising Works 14 book

The Advertising Works 14 book showcases 23 imaginative, successful campaigns produced by small-to-medium sized agencies. The case studies are the main prize winners at the IPA's Effectiveness Awards 2005, the new competition for UK agencies with incomes up to £20 million. Like previous IPA Effectiveness Awards, each case study describes the objectives of the campaign, its strategy, media thinking and execution. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Advertising Works 15 book

Advertising Works 15 features the 22 case studies that won the top prizes at the 2006 IPA Effectiveness Awards - the world's most prestigious and rigorous effectiveness competition. For the first time, the book also includes valuable analysis and advice from leading experts in the marketing communications business. There are chapters on creativity, media thinking and communications strategy by Laurence Green, Iain Jacob and Neil Dawson. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Advertising Works 16 book

Advertising Works 16 showcases 18 imaginative and successful 2007 IPA Effectiveness Awards cases papers, which are supported by key, chapter-long insights by leading industry practitioners, and includes a free DVD. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Advertising Works 17 book

Advertising Works 17 showcases 23 prize winning 2008 IPA Effectiveness Awards case papers, which are supported by key, chapter-long new learning insights by leading industry practitioners, and includes a free DVD. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Advertising Works 18 book

Advertising Works 18 is edited by Andy Nairn and showcases 16 prize winning 2009 IPA Effectiveness Awards case papers including British Heart Foundation, Halifax, Knorr, Maximuscle, Morrisons and Slendertone. Also includes chapters on why share of voice matters, the role of behavioural economics in advertising, big lessons from small budgets and how to write an effectiveness paper. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Advertising Works 19 book

Advertising Works 19 is edited by David Golding and showcases 25 prize winning 2010 IPA Effectiveness Awards papers including Audi, Barclaycard, Bisto, Heinz, Hovis, HSBC, Sainsbury's, Self-Assessment, T-Mobile, and Wispa. Also includes insights on the recession, how advertising works in the short term and the measurable link between creativity and effectiveness. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Advertising Works 20 book

Advertising Works 20 is edited by Charlie Snow and showcases the 15 prize winning 2011 IPA Effectiveness Awards papers in full, including Aquafresh Kids, Fiat, first direct and Marie Curie Cancer Care. The book also features insight and analysis from experts across the advertising industry which complement the invaluable information on brands and markets from the case studies. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


ADVERTISING WORKS AND HOW BOOK

'Advertising Works And How' was published to mark the 25th anniversary of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and edited by Laurence Green, Planning Partner at Fallon, Advertising Works And How guides the reader through the thirteen Grand Prix winners to date and reveals what made these campaigns so successful.


Area Advertising Works 5 book

The IPA has published the fifth book in the series of AREA Advertising Works: proving the effectiveness of regional marketing communications, which contains all the winning case studies from the 2003 IPA AREA Effectiveness Awards. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Scottish Advertising Works 3 book

Edited by James Best, Chief People and Strategic Officer for DDB, the third book in the Scottish IPA’s Advertising Works series yet again demonstrates the power of the disciplined creativity harnessed by IPA agencies in Scotland. The case histories featured in this volume show how effective communications campaigns have revolutionised the performance of business and institutions in Scotland over the past few years. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.


Scottish Advertising Works 4 book

The book, edited by James Best, 2005 Chairman and Convenor of Judges and Group Chairman of DDB London, gives an invaluable insight into the winning campaigns use of bold and imaginative communications to solve difficult marketing challenges. Cases discussed include the Blood Donation paper, the Children’s Hearings system, the University of Dundee paper and the Broadband for Scotland campaign. Members receive a 15% discount on this product.



Other Useful Reading

2011 IPA Effectiveness Awards winners announced

Four Gold Awards, five Silver Awards, six Bronze Awards and nine Special Prizes were awarded at last night’s (1st November) prestigious IPA Effectiveness Awards, including the Grand Prix which was awarded to Lowe-SSP3 for their extraordinary ‘FARC Operation Christmas’ campaign that demobilised Colombian guerrillas.


IPA Effectiveness Awards Case Studies 2011

Program of Humanitarian Attention to the Demobilised campaign awarded Grand Prix at the IPA Effectiveness Awards.


Photos from the IPA Effectiveness Awards 2011


Events Channel

Welcome to the IPA Events channel where you can catch up on the latest IPA events, account management, creative or strategic sessions.


Definitive proof that Advertising Works (out today)

Advertising Works 20, published today (2nd November) shows how marketing communications has helped organisations as diverse as Marie Curie Cancer Care, first direct and The Economist translate big ideas into impressive results from limited budgets of up to £2.5m.


Marie Curie Cancer Care: How Marie Curie Cancer Care benefited from using advertising to ask people to collect money rather than simply give money - IPA Effectiveness Awards Case Study 2011

Brief Description: Faced with enormous pressures on charitable giving, Marie Curie re-deployed a small part of its 2010 advertising budget to ask people to collect money for their Great Daffodil Appeal, rather than simply give money. Remarkably, this small campaign recruited an extra 5,219 collectors. These collectors generated an additional income of £634,583, delivering a ROMI of £2.45 for every £1 spent. This equates to an extra 8,808 nursing hours for the terminally ill, thus enabling 228 patients to spend their final days at home. ;---(TAGS)--- Full Title: How Marie Curie Cancer Care benefited from using advertising to ask people to collect money rather than simply give money ; Number: 2011/23 ; Brand Name: Marie Curie Cancer Care ; Client: Marie Curie Cancer Care ; IPA_ProductCoding: Charities (All Charities) ; Agency: DLKW Lowe ; Maxus ; Author: Anna Hutson - DLKW Lowe, Jane Dorsett - Lowe Worldwide ;


McCain Wedges: Driving a Wedge between chips, chips and more chips - IPA Effectiveness Awards Case Study 2011

Brief Description: McCain Wedges lacked a distinctive identity beyond the occasional alternative to chips. McCain therefore needed to grow the Wedges brand but in a way that didn’t cannibalise chip sales. Research unveiled a correlation between Wedges purchase and items bought for barbeques. Taking into account Britain’s unpredictable weather, McCain created ‘sunshine-activated’ executions that were only initiated when the weather forecast looked good. To extend activity beyond the summer months, they also sponsored several movie channels. The thermally activated media and film activity delivered a ROMI of £2.85 and £4.37 respectively. Penetration of Wedges now stands at one in five of all UK households, with frequency at an all time high. ;---(TAGS)--- Full Title: Driving a Wedge between chips, chips and more chips ; Number: 2011/28 ; Brand Name: McCain Wedges ; Client: McCain Foods Ltd ; IPA_ProductCoding: Food (Vegetables - fresh, frozen, canned) ; Sponsorship (Broadcast sponsorship) ; Agency: PHD Media ; Beattie McGuinness Bungay ; Author: Simon Harwood - PHD Media, David Wilding - PHD Media (Contributing) ;


Department of Environment, Northern Ireland - Road Safety: The longer term effects of seatbelts advertising - IPA Effectiveness Awards Case Study 2008

Brief Description: This paper shows how psychological techniques were used to shock Ireland into wearing seatbelts. Seatbelt wearing rates in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were lower than people in Great Britain. The challenge was to increase seatbelt compliance and thereby reduce road carnage and its resulting human tragedy and economic cost to the taxpayer. The strategy combined findings from research, data and psychology to dramatise the consequences of being unbelted in a car through TV ads. The campaigns reduced the number of deaths and serious injuries without seatbelts by 29 per cent in Northern Ireland, and 46 per cent in Republic of Ireland, and generated payback of £15 for every £1 spent ;---(TAGS)--- Full Title: The longer term effects of seatbelts advertising 2001 - 2007 ; Number: 2008/36 ; Brand Name: Dept of Environment Northern Ireland - Road Safety ; Client: Dept Of The Environment Northern Ireland ; Road Safety Authority (Roi) ; IPA_ProductCoding: Government Departments (Public service information campaigns) ; Agency: Lylebailie International ; Author: David Lyle, Julie Anne Bailie, Dawn McCartney, Robert Lyle, David Martin ;


Employment Guidelines: Interns and the National Minimum Wage - November 2011

Juliet Bawtree, the IPA Employment Lawyer, is today (1st November) advising agencies on their obligations towards interns and, in particular, whether or not they should be paid the National Minimum Wage (NMW).


China: obstacles and opportunities

Following the recent IPA trade mission to China, Jeremy Rainbird, CEO, Addiction Worldwide, has written an opinion piece for Think BR in which he says Chinese brands need to better understand the benefits of market insight and competition before they can succeed globally.