Nike, Inc.: Product Assault campaign

Going into the summer of 1997, Nike gave its advertising firm, Portland, Oregon-based Wieden & Kennedy, an "emergency assignment," according to Jimmy Smith, a copywriter for the agency.

Nike, Inc.: Product Assault campaign

William Baue

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Going into the summer of 1997, Nike gave its advertising firm, Portland, Oregon-based Wieden & Kennedy, an "emergency assignment," according to Jimmy Smith, a copywriter for the agency. The "Product Assault" campaign "wasn't even budgeted for the summer, and we had to turn it around quickly," explained Smith in Kathy DeSalvo's August 1997 Shootarticle. "Nike wanted to do something to let people know that these cool shoes are out there. After we received all the background information on them, we looked at them and [decided] that they're really cool-looking...

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