请试着回想一下你近期在电视上看到的耐克广告片。如果你想不起来，不要感到惊讶。尽管耐克的营销总预算仍然在稳步攀升，去年更是达到了创纪录的24亿美元，但它花在美国境内的电视和平面媒体上的广告费三年内就剧减了40%。

    布莱恩•科林斯是一位品牌咨询师，也是一位广告业的资深创意总监，他说：“现在，耐克已经很少投放传统媒体广告了。”

    过去那种从上至下、围绕热门单品发起的营销攻势已经一去不复返了，无论是请巨星老虎伍兹代言，推出明星签名版的“空军一号”（Air Force 1），还是发布戏仿20世纪80年代末期由布•杰克逊出演，光靠耐克的品牌标识就能销售整个品牌的“布知道”（Bo Knows）广告片。这些营销手段已经被全新的、充满互动元素的营销活动取代，它们能让耐克公司与用户直接沟通。从监测运动状态的腕带；到约翰内斯堡竖起的30层楼高的耐克Twitter粉丝留言大屏幕；再到由奥斯卡提名导演拍摄，不在电视黄金时段播出，却在Facebook上首映的大型广告，都是这种新营销趋势的体现。乔恩•邦德是克森鲍姆•邦德•塞纳克合伙公司（Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners）的联合创始人，现在经营着一家社交媒体广告公司。他说：“很明显，耐克公司认为，就算完全没有大规模的电视广告，它们的业务照样能做得风生水起。”

    出现这种转变的原因很简单：耐克需要贴近消费者。其核心消费者形象是一名17岁的少年。他运动鞋上的花费要比成年人多出20%，但他早已放弃了电视，却在各类网络社区中过得如鱼得水。耐克不仅认为自己已经无需借助大规模的电视广告就能开拓市场，它还表示，数字世界能让其品牌与消费者形成更紧密的互动——紧密程度或许可以媲美耐克发展早期。当时，也就是20世纪60年代，公司创始人菲尔•奈特开着自己的车，亲自卖鞋。不久前，在接受《财富》杂志（Fortune）专访时，耐克首席执行官马克•帕克在比弗顿他那间充斥着小摆设的办公室里表示，这是个重大转变。他说：“以前的沟通的模式是，这是我们的产品，这是我们做的广告，希望大家喜欢。但现在的沟通方式则是对话。”

    Just try to recall the last couple of Nike commercials you saw on television. Don't be surprised when you can't. Nike's spending on TV and print advertising in the U.S. has dropped by 40% in just three years, even as its total marketing budget has steadily climbed upward to hit a record $2.4 billion last year. "There's barely any media advertising these days for Nike," says Brian Collins, a brand consultant and longtime Madison Avenue creative executive.

    Gone is the reliance on top-down campaigns celebrating a single hit -- whether a star like Tiger Woods, a signature shoe like the Air Force 1, or send-ups like Bo Jackson's 'Bo Knows' commercials from the late '80s that sold the entire brand in one fell Swoosh. In their place is a whole new repertoire of interactive elements that let Nike communicate directly with its consumers, whether it's a performance-tracking wristband, a 30-story billboard in Johannesburg that posts fan headlines from Twitter, or a major commercial shot by an Oscar-nominated director that makes its debut not on primetime television but on Facebook. Says Jon Bond, co-founder of Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners who now runs a social media agency: "Clearly they think they can get by without big television campaigns anymore."

    The reason for the shift is simple: Nike is going where its customer is. And its core customer, a 17-year-old who spends 20% more on shoes than his adult counterparts, has given up television to skip across myriad online communities. Not only does Nike think it can do without the mega-TV campaigns of old, it says the digital world allows the brand to interact even more closely with its consumers -- maybe as closely as it did in its early days, when founder Phil Knight sold track shoes out of his car in the 1960s. That's a major change, Nike CEO Mark Parker explained to Fortune during a recent interview in his tchotchke-filled office in Beaverton. "Connecting used to be, 'Here's some product, and here's some advertising. We hope you like it,' " he says. "Connecting today is a dialogue."