These Disney World Print Ads Don't Show the Park at All

In-house agency Yellow Shoes highlights the ride home

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It’s reasonable to assume that an ad for Disney World would be built around pictures of Disney World. But here’s a campaign that takes promotion of the park a creatively different direction.

Yellow Shoes, the in-house agency at Disney, created print ads that highlight the afterglow of a Disney World visit. Each shows a child asleep on the drive home or perhaps en route back to a hotel.

Anyone who’s been on such a trip with kids will recognize the complete, blissful exhaustion conveyed by the ads.

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Disney photographer Caitie McCabe, who specializes in child and family photography, shot the campaign, with creative leadership from vp Jean Batthany and director of creative Jim Real.

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For a more cinematic look at Disney park marketing, check out Disneyland Paris’ ad from agency BETC this year.

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