5 marketing takeaways from Disney films

If your campaigns could stand to have more creativity, heart and soul, pay attention to these insights from the magical brand’s movies.

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Certainly, those words can be applied to many sectors of life—and business. Let’s consider their value for one area in particular: movies, especially movies from The Walt Disney Co.

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The movies are pretty “involving,” to say the least. Look at how “Finding Dory” has been killing its box office competition. Overall, Disney’s global revenue hovers at $52.47 billion, so it surely has a thing or two to teach us about how to make consumers bring out those wallets and pay, while actually being happy about it.

Here are some of those lessons:

1. Entertainment sells.

There’s no mystery to why Disney movies do so well; they’re great stories. We humans crave stories. And when it comes to marketing those stories, Disney excels, too. It’s almost always a pleasure when ads can entertain us; as customers, we respond.

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