The Feldwick Factor: Has technology changed our understanding of ‘advertising’?
Paul Feldwick
Claude Hopkins is remembered today as a writer of copy, but that's not all he did. Some time in the 1890s, desperate to impress his new employer, the maker of Cotosuet, he decided to bake ‘the biggest cake in the world', using Cotosuet instead of butter.
It was displayed in the corner window of Chicago's newest department store and announced with press advertising. On the launch night, Hopkins had to fight through the crowds even to get near the store, which had already had to close its doors....