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  • čas přidán 13. 10. 2009
  • www.ted.com Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.
    TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Komentáře • 201

  • @popstar10000
    @popstar10000 Před 12 lety +154

    rory sutherland's my dad. he is an awsome dad.

    • @prachetanpotdar2401
      @prachetanpotdar2401 Před 7 lety +13

      Millie Sutherland you are so lucky to have this cool personality as your dad. Is there any opportunity to interact with him? Is there any chance for their visit to India. An open invitation to you both.

    • @clydekelvinandthesinners.3977
      @clydekelvinandthesinners.3977 Před 4 lety +5

      I've seen a few of your dad's talks and Your very lucky he has a brilliant mind and a wonderful manner. You must be very proud and rightly so. I hope he has had the influence on you to be like him, we need more good people in the world, All the best.

    • @zacharyneilson9220
      @zacharyneilson9220 Před 4 lety +26

      Are you sure he is awesome in reality? Maybe he just makes you perceive him as awesome 😉

    • @god5535
      @god5535 Před 4 lety +1

      He is amazing personality teeming with ideas. You should be proud Millie.

    • @axlegallardo
      @axlegallardo Před 4 lety +2

      Your dad’s a rockstar!

  • @ThMrksman
    @ThMrksman Před 10 lety +106

    This is a man marketing the process of marketing. Very meta.

  • @Eman_Puedama
    @Eman_Puedama Před 15 lety +17

    Can't believe I've never seen this man on TV. He gives the impression that you already know who he is, even though you don't. More entertaining than a lot of media stars anyway.

  • @thecodingnoob9424
    @thecodingnoob9424 Před 2 lety +7

    11 years old and still ON-Point! Love Rory Sutherland, a marketer that has aged like a fine wine!

  • @johnnielawson
    @johnnielawson Před 9 lety +14

    Brilliant, I will have to watch this a few times and make notes, there are so many wonderful ideas in this presentation that I will somehow adapt for my own online project.
    Thank you very much Rory.
    Johnnie Lawson

    • @muniralasadi624
      @muniralasadi624 Před rokem +2

      Just a quick reminder for you to re-watch it, in case you somehow forgot during the last 7 years

  • @CrownRoyalSociety
    @CrownRoyalSociety Před 15 lety +3

    I laughed. I learned. I thought. One of the best TED talks and I've been watching them for a long time now.

  • @CetraTJ
    @CetraTJ Před 14 lety +5

    I could listen to that guy all day, brilliant!

  • @spacedtime6597
    @spacedtime6597 Před 15 lety +1

    I just don't know where TED gets all these great speakers talking about such fascinating subjects.
    TED is my best youtube subscription.
    Thanks guys.

  • @trueblueguy88
    @trueblueguy88 Před rokem +1

    Wow! So informative and entertaining at the same time. Salute the teacher in him

  • @2661960
    @2661960 Před 15 lety +2

    Loved this...we have actually had discussions over the Shreddies "diamond" shape!

  • @LivingLucid
    @LivingLucid Před 12 lety +15

    I laughed so hard at the cereal bit.

    • @DanielJohnsonJr
      @DanielJohnsonJr Před 2 měsíci

      I struggled to believe that this wasn't part of a comedy sketch

  • @The_Bird_Bird_Harder
    @The_Bird_Bird_Harder Před 11 lety +2

    Rory, you are brilliant! I thoroughly enjoy everything you say :) it's the accent and the curls :)

  • @whydizz
    @whydizz Před 14 lety +3

    great talk. Both interesting, informative, and being funny was a bonus.

  • @RarewareLover
    @RarewareLover Před 15 lety +1

    They like people who have ideas changing our way of looking at things, and it helps if they're engaging and entertaining.

  • @maxis2k
    @maxis2k Před 7 lety +4

    A perfect example of how marketing can get people to buy the same product is played out all the time with breakfast cereals. When I was a kid, most of the corn based cereals (Trix, Cocoa puffs, Kix, etc) came all in the same round shape and a set color. But after some lagging sales, most of these cereals changed the shape or color of the cereal. Trix is the most obvious as they changed from the round shape to the shape of fruits. An obvious gimmick, but it caused the sales of those cereals to rise. After about a decade of this, sales started to lag again. What did the companies do? They just reverted all the cereals back to the original bland spheres, but then called it "New Trix". And sales went up. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years, they repeat the cycle again.
    While this seems like a copout, it is actually brilliant marketing. And Sutherland is right, we should be doing things like this. Because our culture is getting swept up into sensationalism, where we only look forward and completely give up on anything from the past. This way of thinking will just hurt sales in the long run since it creates smaller and smaller windows for a product to be popular. Something that comes out today will get replaced less than a year later. Or even a month later. That disgusting pink drink you got from Starbucks will become obsolete tomorrow when McDonalds comes out with a green drink that tastes horrible, but you gotta have it because it's "new".
    Eventually, this constant change will fall back in on itself. Companies won't be able to afford their ballooning R&D budgets and people will become desensitized to change. We're already seeing it happen with smartphones and movies. But what's old is new again. And some smart businessman is going to see a lull in the market and reintroduce a fad from the 1920s, which everyone will be tricked into thinking it's new and buy it up.

  • @Abnormalized
    @Abnormalized Před 15 lety

    Great talk! Very interesting and entertaining... and thought-provoking!

  • @adj789
    @adj789 Před 15 lety +8

    One of the most entertaining TED talks! 5/5

    • @sobrevida157
      @sobrevida157 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I thought it was much better than that! I gave it 6 out of 6! (snicker, snicker)

  • @isaidmrw
    @isaidmrw Před 15 lety +2

    This was a brilliant TED talk. I perceived it to be brilliant so it was.

  • @andy4an
    @andy4an Před 10 lety +4

    classic examples, and clear lesson on intangible value.

  • @helimax
    @helimax Před 14 lety +2

    How could you dislike this talk..........

  • @briankelly85
    @briankelly85 Před 9 lety +14

    Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor...

  • @paradisesunriseyoga
    @paradisesunriseyoga Před 12 lety +1

    Love this man! Diamond Shreddies!

  • @vishalkthacker
    @vishalkthacker Před 11 lety +1

    I love your dad! :)
    He is so awesome!

  • @ArgueExplain
    @ArgueExplain Před 15 lety +1

    Best TED talk ever.

  • @YongLongLai
    @YongLongLai Před 15 lety

    Very entertaining and educational.

  •  Před 3 lety

    Love this!!!

  • @098anne
    @098anne Před 14 lety

    Great stuff!

  • @karbono
    @karbono Před 15 lety

    Great stuff. I especially liked the potatoes story.

  • @antuntun
    @antuntun Před 14 lety

    this guy reminds me of the professor Claudio Vignali from Leeds Metropolitan - has a very similar presentation style and also very interesting lectures!

  • @ThomasRasinen
    @ThomasRasinen Před 15 lety

    This is great - what a message! Funny how one of the Shreddies tasted better than the other. Also, you want to cruise right through traffic, Motorize Your Bike!

  • @detourrr
    @detourrr Před 15 lety

    Great talk.

  • @86kinky86
    @86kinky86 Před 15 lety

    spot on!

  • @bigsmokethegreat8351
    @bigsmokethegreat8351 Před 6 lety

    I watch it again and again

  • @pratiksharma5727
    @pratiksharma5727 Před 4 lety

    Awesome man! Diamond and square cereals!!

  • @gabydewilde
    @gabydewilde Před 15 lety

    great talk

  • @PedroGabrielTerapeuta
    @PedroGabrielTerapeuta Před 4 lety

    Amazing!

  • @Talixaen
    @Talixaen Před 14 lety

    I love this. The shreddies thing is hilarious, and he raises some good points. Don't hate advertisers, or this guy, just because of his somewhat-silly sounding ideas. It's just a different way of thinking.

  • @dadadacrazy
    @dadadacrazy Před 11 lety

    We have the same driving demerit point system in Australia - I can't vouch for it's effectiveness but I'd like to think that risk aversion is a strong motivator.

  • @svd348
    @svd348 Před 15 lety

    This one was fantastic. I was just about to give up on Ted too.

  • @aneostratnub3931
    @aneostratnub3931 Před 11 lety +1

    excellent

  • @DoogieTalons
    @DoogieTalons Před 15 lety

    I love TED talks but there are not many that have made me laugh out loud like this one.

  • @ErichoTTA
    @ErichoTTA Před 15 lety

    Love the new intro.

  • @vishalthacker7396
    @vishalthacker7396 Před 10 lety +1

    Hi Millie! I am a huge fan of your dad, and was wondering if he would share his awesomeness at my B-school! Could you help? Thanks!

  • @hannahskm
    @hannahskm Před 15 lety

    as much as I hate advertising.. I love it!

  • @strikingitrich7630
    @strikingitrich7630 Před 19 dny

    Amazing

  • @Pianofy
    @Pianofy Před 11 lety +1

    Yes!!

  • @accuwash
    @accuwash Před 14 lety

    What a great talk... I love the potatoe story.

  • @praestantia1
    @praestantia1 Před 14 lety

    Fascinating. Marketing IS Phsychology.

  • @djosserperrah9563
    @djosserperrah9563 Před 5 lety

    Very good

  • @theseanze
    @theseanze Před 12 lety

    James Rorty (philosopher Richard Rorty's dad) wrote a book on this in the early 1930s called "Our Master's Voice"...also confessions of an ad-man

  • @00alc000
    @00alc000 Před 15 lety

    I thought the Sheddies commercial was brilliant. I have learned to hate new and improved because often the product is just fine the way it is.
    Loved your talk.

  • @tunerr1
    @tunerr1 Před 12 lety +2

    I think this was the 3rd time I've seen this video. Somehow it just seems to get better :)

  • @roidroid
    @roidroid Před 15 lety +4

    "BAAAAA"
    Bacholor of Arts, Achievements, And Amazing Anocryms

  • @rangavembar
    @rangavembar Před 4 lety

    Hilariously educative!!

  • @snowwolfsabertooth
    @snowwolfsabertooth Před 15 lety +1

    this guy is bloody awesome!!
    but some values and perceptions are not be messed with

  • @RiotBrained
    @RiotBrained Před 9 lety +21

    Told to guard the potatoes,but secretly told to not do it very well. Made me laugh out loud. #howispendmysaturdaynight

  • @DanielJohnsonJr
    @DanielJohnsonJr Před 2 měsíci +1

    Saw this 14 years ago, several times after, and now I am watching this again... in 2024.
    So many examples that make me chuckle and smile about our humanity.

  • @johnkim7802
    @johnkim7802 Před 8 lety

    Advertising and manufacturing are often considered separate yet nothing could be further from the truth. Advertising is greatly centered upon manufacturing perceptions of value; and any manufacturing must be successfully advertised in order for awareness and acceptability of the product. The paradox of advertising also makes it that people have great power to choose whether to accept an advertisement or reject it in a free market-based society. Yet advertising can be more powerful than even coercion.

  • @Atoyota
    @Atoyota Před 15 lety

    fun post!

  • @mitchellwright6902
    @mitchellwright6902 Před 4 lety

    How does this video not offer a high resolution option?

  • @deeptracy23
    @deeptracy23 Před 15 lety

    Me too!

  • @TheGrapplingMonkey
    @TheGrapplingMonkey Před 15 lety

    New Diamond Shreddis!!!

  • @loucious22
    @loucious22 Před 14 lety

    I love shreddies lol

  • @lalalaso333
    @lalalaso333 Před rokem

    It changed my mind thinking that advertisements are something tricky, I mean we do need that "tricky thing" to make us move forward and to be happy. Maybe to be alive needs something that assumes to be alive lol.

  • @celshader
    @celshader Před 15 lety

    I agree and I am a current ad man

  • @dingusmungus
    @dingusmungus Před 14 lety +2

    8:29 a subliminal coke ad flashes... smooth.

  • @DavidsonHangOfficial
    @DavidsonHangOfficial Před 12 lety +2

    Welcome to Oxford! haha

  • @mariasoniamoreno3433
    @mariasoniamoreno3433 Před 4 lety +5

    British accent that can be perfectly understood by the American ear.

  • @Avalon_1991
    @Avalon_1991 Před rokem

    These are the people that should be in charge, not just career politicians.

  • @WoWanate
    @WoWanate Před 15 lety

    Enjoyable performance.

  • @pgfinna
    @pgfinna Před 4 lety

    This guy is a rockstar

  • @Bibbly53
    @Bibbly53 Před 14 lety

    Shreddies: "A crafty way of rewarding loyalty to the crown."

  • @Teabonesteak
    @Teabonesteak Před 15 lety

    Check out: Felix Dennis' odes to vice and consequences

  • @Trazynn
    @Trazynn Před 15 lety

    It actually came from Rory Sutherland, he takes the credit.

  • @shiftyjake
    @shiftyjake Před 14 lety +1

    Why are you guys so down on this guy? He makes a lot of good points about how to shift values away from the material and closer to the emotional, spiritual and ethical. And that train business? Why make a crappy trip shorter when you could make a long trip enjoyable for less money? The models were a joke, but the reasoning still stands.

  • @jozefserf2024
    @jozefserf2024 Před 4 lety +2

    "On the left you have Rupert Murdoch or the BBC, on the right the dependent public which is pathetically grateful for whatever you give it." Monopoly suppliers explained.

  • @BridgeMakes
    @BridgeMakes Před 15 lety +2

    I laughed my ass off :)

  • @ArxVirtus
    @ArxVirtus Před 15 lety

    @John1Rawls - Correct you are. Creative, independent thinkers don't give a thought to "sheeple" or other silly concepts. They simply find ways to succeed.
    Those who point out frustration with "sheeple" are bound by their frustration and their inability to move past it.

  • @omegavalerius
    @omegavalerius Před 14 lety

    Of course you can't put a space telescope in orbit with an placebo education. For marketing (and I have by BBA in marketing) it works.
    I couldn't have agreed more about the train stuff though!

  • @MonsterinNC
    @MonsterinNC Před 12 lety +2

    This dude is a fucking beast!!

  • @Chameleam
    @Chameleam Před 14 lety

    @dingusmungus
    i think that he had a picture of the logo up on the screen, and they tried to edit it into the video but it just fucked up a little.

  • @Catherinebaseballmom
    @Catherinebaseballmom Před 10 lety +2

    How can i to find this video in spanish(traslator) ? thank you.

    • @elninodepzai
      @elninodepzai Před 10 lety +1

      you can go to TED.com and download a version with Spanish subtitle

    • @bilbcn
      @bilbcn Před 7 lety

      The 'Settings' button on the screen (bottom right) allows you to choose the language for subtitles.. South American Spanish translation..

    • @user-df2nn6yt4s
      @user-df2nn6yt4s Před 7 lety

      bill m ظظاباوىلتز

  • @carreralee
    @carreralee Před 14 lety

    Where can I find TED evil talks?

  • @MrArniePi
    @MrArniePi Před 13 lety

    Rory Sutherland is without doubt the greatest rhetoric I've come across. He uses powerpoint slides particularly effectively; I've witnessed the decimation of many presentations all because of jam-packed, unnecessary, and distracting slides.

  • @BowlofIndoMee
    @BowlofIndoMee Před 12 lety

    diamond!

  • @jakylili
    @jakylili Před 15 lety

    agree thats pretty smart, if only most of the government now-a-days would understand and change this method a bit they'' get a lot done.

  • @crudhousefull
    @crudhousefull Před 12 lety

    @MomoTheBellyDancer I've been to Egypt. Belly dancers are crazy good. Anyway...good luck in your journey

  • @peterbundy84
    @peterbundy84 Před 15 lety

    Unicum in Hungary! yeah, you have to drink it there to like it

  • @KGPProductions
    @KGPProductions Před 14 lety

    For the anti-advertisers... I'm a marketer. I volunteer with non-profit organizations, including one for arts that, among other things, helps at-risk youth. By getting the information out and selling the firm, I am helping to bring down the crime rate, enhance the futures of individuals and enrich their lives. Marketing isn't inherently evil. And more importantly, everything is marketing; there's no real distinction. Even the posts against marketing are their own form of marketing.

  • @jonmanilenio
    @jonmanilenio Před 10 lety +1

    Shreddies! hahaha.

  • @andymckee53
    @andymckee53 Před 13 lety

    @austpom333
    What do you eat for breakfast?

  • @roidroid
    @roidroid Před 15 lety

    it doesn't quite blow you out of your chair anymore

  • @gabydewilde
    @gabydewilde Před 15 lety

    thats what I thought !

  • @thehawaiianlion
    @thehawaiianlion Před 11 lety

    Did anyone else see the coke advertisement at around 8:30?

    • @yotch555
      @yotch555 Před 5 lety

      Yes, it's the subliminal ad.

  • @AutodidacticPhd
    @AutodidacticPhd Před 15 lety

    Placebo Education would be a brilliant new idea if it wasn't for the fact that this is what most people already receive.

  • @minseo111530
    @minseo111530 Před 5 lety

    13:19

  • @gabydewilde
    @gabydewilde Před 14 lety

    @TheBigThoughful Yes, but you are also saying this can not be explained often enough. I wouldn't go as far as to externalize it and call people lower class. It most likely applies to you and me also. A smart person would keep reminding himself of how it works, he would still get caught eventually. Watching videos on youtube, searching with google etc etc

  • @oprahlovesgail
    @oprahlovesgail Před 15 lety +2

    I think he said "actually" about 800 times. Seriously I counted. I actually counted.

  • @MihaZ
    @MihaZ Před 15 lety

    Placebo education hahaha, priceless.

  • @skellymom
    @skellymom Před 15 lety

    reptilezsweden-I am not complaining about having a commercial on a station to pay for it to be free. I am complaining about the content of the commercial.
    Not willing to pay for something? Really depends of what it is and if it is worth the price....and that could be subjective depending on who you are talking to...