the "Joy" seems to not be working in the US considering BMW is looking to overhaul their marketing again.
BMW SEARCHES FOR NEW DIRECTION IN U.S. ADVERTISING
With tough times often come tough decisions. Companies are forced to take a closer look at virtually all aspects of their businesses, ensuring that their efforts are concise and efficient, as has been the case with several automakers in the past couple years in regards to their automotive advertising approaches.
Relationships that have lasted nearly as long as the automakers themselves have come and gone, and now BMW is yet again looking for a new direction in the U.S. In 2010, BMW returned to the Super Bowl for the first time in a decade, ended its relationship with advertising agency GSD&M, and now is now launching a comprehensive review of its U.S. ad work.
The German automaker’s review is going to be managed by Dick Roth of Roth Observatory International, which has been obtained to help focus on three areas that BMW has labeled as key: national brand creative, multicultural marketing and regional and dealer creative work.
“This review is part of the standard long-term strategic planning of our brand,” said Dan Creed, vice president, marketing, BMW of North America. “All of our agencies have made valuable contributions to BMW and we hope that they will participate in this review.”
Those agencies include MDC Partners’ Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners, which has worked on national creative for BMW since October 2010, WPP’s Grey West, which handled creative duties for regional and dealer advertising since 2008, and combined efforts by Matlock Advertising and Public Relations and Bromley Communications have delivered BMW’s multicultural efforts.