Success and Happiness - DUTCH PICTURE INDUSTRY

Marketing professionals are adopting this philosophy. Take an example from Johnnie Walker, the whiskey brand. Their campaign “Keep Walking” ran for over 16 years, and was born out of the universal idea of personal ‘progress’. The new tag line, “Joy Will Take You Further. Keep walking.” moves the creative concept more in the direction of experiencing joy and happiness. They show this in an amazing short film. Guy Escolme, global brand director: “The new campaign, is meant to convey the idea that if you start from a place of happiness, optimism and joy, it is a big accelerator of people’s progress and success in their lives.” It’s all about bringing joy in to the world.

In Beyond Marketing, there was an inspiring story of RICOH and the relationship with the human instead of the wallet. Ricoh works with the philosophy: “the spirit of three loves”. They explain the meaning of that interesting philosophy: Love for your neighbor, respect the other like yourself, love your country, which means that they handle our Earth carefully and love the work, which let you express who you are and what difference you want to create. So instead of focusing on their high level of technology and innovation, their brand story is about people. People making the difference.

We find it inspiring to see how companies adopt positive branding methods and brand stories, to communicate their product. Marketing is affecting the way we live and see the world, we are happy to see that it is sometimes more than just about selling more products. Happy customers are happy people and vice versa. So if you want to connect to your audience, your customer: communicate by making an honest connection. And that starts with being happy. We started to think ourselves happy, and begun to spread this concept in our creative work.

We made an INSPIRE film about Happiness: