The Most Famous Advertising Slogans and how they make a difference

There are as many businesses today as there are consumer products, and although some products are new and innovative, others are old, well established favorites that we recognise instantly and just cannot seem to do without.

Great product branding coupled with a catchy advertising slogan can really make your business boom.

An Advertising Slogan Can Build Your Business ...

Get it Right and your advertising slogan can make your product for life. Get it wrong and your product will sink without trace.

Having an old, well established product means you have a trusted brand that has probably been used for decades.

A product that has become a household name.

Your product name may even be associated with the function or action it supports or carries out.

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Meanwhile innovative, new products recently introduced to the market are struggling to make their mark.

They don't have the benefit of well known or famous advertising slogans or product branding that makes them instantly recognisable.

In the world of advertising promoting these new products means spending large sums of money to promote your brand and create an image that consumers will connect with.

Your new product just won't compete with the popularity of the old established products unless you have very deep pockets or can emulate the best and most famous advertising slogans.

What is an Advertising Slogan?

Famous Advertising Brand Logos

Advertising is all around us, on buses, billboards, in magazines, on the internet and always on television.

Every time we read a newspaper, we subconciously scan advertisements. And if done well, this advertising persuades us to buy a certain product.

A slogan is a phrase typically used in political, religious or commercial terms to convey an idea or a purpose.

It is usually short and attention-grabbing, a memorable phrase that get's right to the heart of the matter.

The newer your product or service is, the more you will need to come up with an original advertising slogan that will connect your brand with the market sector your product is aimed at.

Advertising slogans are used to build a mental image that summarizes the product and associates it with a positive experience or idea.

In just a few memorable words you create a tag line for the product. And; once established in the mind of the consumer these same memorable words are then used in many different forms of media to build up layers of positive associations.

A good, catchy slogan can be placed in all types of advertisements, workplace posters, on business cards, and even on uniforms and corporate stationery.

Providing consumers with a constant reminder, a reinforcement, of what makes that product or service special.

The Most Famous Advertising Slogans

Famous advertising slogans are slogans that have managed to establish that connection with the consumer.

A vision statement conjured up in a few words that entered the conciousness of the general buying public and that has remainded there for as long as current generations can remember.

Your own advertising slogan should state exactly why you, your service or your product are just as special and demonstrate why you will always remain that way.?

The best way to create your own advertising slogan is to study the most famouse advertising slogans and try to work out why they became so well known. Of course, the main reasons will always be merchandising companies, product branding and very large advertising budgets.

Popular well established Food & Drink slogans ...

  • Good to the last drop ... Maxwell House coffee 1926.
  • Breakfast of Champions ... Wheaties 1935
  • Eat Mor Chikin! ... Chick-fil-A 1995
  • Have a break, Have a Kit Kat ... Kit Kat 1986
  • M'm! M'm! Good! ... Campbell's Soup 1978
  • Melts in your mouth, not in your hands ... M&Ms 1954
  • We drink all we can. The rest we sell ... Utica Club
  • It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken ... Perdue 1972
  • You got peanut butter in my chocolate! You got chocolate in my peanut butter! ... Reese's Peanut Butter Cups 1970
  • Probably the best lager in the world ... Carlsberg 1973

Coca Cola

  • The pause that refreshes ... Coca-Cola 1929
  • Always Coca-Cola ... Coca-Cola 1993
  • Obey your thirst ... Sprite

McDonalds

  • You deserve a break today ... McDonalds 1971
  • We do it all for you ... McDonalds 1975
  • Did somebody say McDonald's? ... McDonalds 1997
  • We love to see you smile ... McDonalds 2000
  • I'm lovin' it ... McDonalds 2003

Burger King

  • Have it your way ... Burger King 1973
  • Home of the Whopper ... Burger King 1957

Government Campaigns & Slogans

  • Be all that you can be ... United States Army 1981-2001
  • A mind is a terrible thing to waste ... United Negro College Fund 1970s
  • Pork. The Other White Meat ... National Pork Board 1987
  • Got Milk? ... California Milk Processor Board 1993

Othe popular advertising slogans from Sport, Insurance, Cars & TV.

  • Just Do It ... Nike, Inc. 1988
  • I want my MTV ... MTV
  • Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there ... State Farm Insurance 1971
  • Oh, what a feeling! ... Toyota 1980
  • The lion leaps from strength to strength ... Peugeot 1980s
  • A Diamond is Forever ... DeBeers 1948
  • It takes a licking and keeps on ticking ... Timex Corporation 1956
  • Between love and madness lies Obsession ... Calvin Kleins Obsession Perfume 1985
  • Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline ... Maybelline 1991
  • Nothing outlasts the Energizer. It keeps going and going and going ... Energizer Holdings Batteries
  • I'd walk a mile for a Camel ... Camel cigarettes 1921
  • Put a tiger in your tank ... Esso/Exxon
  • Is it live, or is it Memorex? ... Memorex video cassettes 1970s
  • So easy a caveman can do it ... GEICO
  • There is no spit in Cremo! ... Cremo cigars
  • What would you do for a Klondike bar? ... Isaly Dairy Company's Klondike bar 1984
  • When it absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight ... Federal Express 1982
  • With a name like Smuckers... it has to be good ... Smuckers
  • Ivory Soap - 9944/100% Pure ... Ivory Soap 1882 by an employee of Procter & Gamble
  • Have You Met Life Today? ... Metropolitan Life 2001
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Advertising through slogans is also one of the most flexible, low cost, and effective forms of advertising campaign you can utilise in almost any market sector today.

The most famous advertising slogans always engage, they always connect people and product in a very unique way. If your advertising slogan doesn't do the same then nobody will notice your ad.

Good advertising that uses slogans must always leave the potential consumer with a subliminal feeling, a mnemonic that they will always associate with the brand.

If you ever want your advertising slogan to be included in the list of famous advertising slogans, be sure to keep your message simple, always engage your consumers with an excellent and very distinctive style, and always provide a clear discernible benefit.