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If the photo fits, who cares if it’s culturally relevant?

02 August 2009
HSBC's advert for UK mortgages showing a US-style house

How significant is cultural relevance to a successful advert? Well, not at all, it would seem, if we are to assume that HSBC’s advertising agency hasn’t made an enormous gaff. If cultural relevance is important, then HSBC may feel that its advertising agency has handed it a bit of a pig-in-a-poke with the bank’s latest [...]

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