Prosumers getting involved in branding

Buzzword of the day: Prosumer. It's been around since the 70's when Alvin Toffler proposed that consumers are becoming producers - in other words that they're getting involved in customizing their experiences of products and services to their tastes in ways that large companies couldn't.

Of course, this idea of "Prosumerism" is gaining serious ground thanks to the internet where even our love songs can be customized to suit our tastes, and where customers are even producing adverts on behalf of the brands they love (or hate).

Adidas recently did a campaign where they put up blank white billboards with a small logo, inviting graphiti artists to come and spray and write on them. Then after a while they placed another poster with a hole in the shape of a shoe on top of the graphiti - hence showing a one-of-a-kind shoe ad co-created with Adidas and their target market.

Awesome. Consider next time you're doing an ad how you could get people to interact with it and customize it to their taste.