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Synopsis A woman explains through song and dance the benefits of using Shake ‘n’ Vac to bring the freshness back. Review With its ridiculously catchy song, this advert is one that has kept fresh in my 80’s nostalgia box. It would only take an image of the product for that song to reappear and get stuck in my head for the rest of the day. This proves how a lighthearted catchy song can sky rocket
Synopsis A spoof of Indiana Jones & The Raiders of the lost Ark, this ad follows George (Played by Just Good Friends actor John Ringham) as he tries to find his wife’s Terry’s chocolate orange. He slips into a hidden passage and journeys through a booby trap filled maze of tunnels, before finding the sacred chocolate. Review I love this adverts as it takes a normal guy, from his nice home and places him into
Marmite’s marketing over the last couple of years has centred around the idea of turning ‘Marmite haters’ into ‘Marmite lovers’ via hypnosis. In 2019, they actually ran a social experiment in which they apparently converted seven out of ten haters into lovers. This ad is supposedly an excerpt from the hypnosis film used in the experiment — albeit with the hypnotherapy segments removed, according to the brand’s disclaimer in the YouTube description. The trippy visuals
Synopsis A woman narrates herself writing a postcard from holiday. Filled with innuendo, whatever she says, the husband is doing something rude / naughty. Animated in a seaside postcard style. Review Adverts like this wouldn’t happen nowadays. The Benny Hill style innuendo isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, the same could be said for brown sauce, but it was funny back then, and was an edgy campaign. Entry Submitted By Brad Holcombe
Synopsis Set in the outback of Australia, a man is deathly ill in bed, and his friend calls the flying doctor. The doctor advises him to give him a cold drink, so he survives the time it will take for him to arrive. Having only one can of XXXX in the fridge, the man keeps the beer to himself, and tells his friend it doesn’t look good. Review Being young, sweet and innocent, I never
Synopsis All sorts of people dancing and moving in all sorts of ways to ‘Lub a Club.’ Review Not sure why I liked this advert so much looking back on it now. Maybe it’s the song, or the weirdness of the moves / people, or maybe it’s just the three guys shaking their belly’s! Great ad though, and I do remember it! Entry Submitted By Brad Holcombe
A well-pitched funny ad can achieve many things. Helping a brand respond to false assumptions about their product is among the more niche. Here, McDonald’s wanted to put to bed any allegations that the eggs used in their sausage and egg McMuffins are anything but ‘real’. They’ve done this through layered comedy — surreal visuals illustrate an alternate universe where their eggs are sliced from gelatinous tubes and poor Sam dances in a shower of
This funny advert featuring England rugby star Joe Marler shows how a solid comedy idea and a tight script can make for a highly effective ad, reducing the need for slick visual production. The ad is essentially one big meta-joke — Joe talks us through the classic techniques of TV advertising, spelling out the message that would usually be in the subtext. The switch between Joe’s ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ voice is a particularly funny highlight,
McDonald’s has produced several funny adverts that contrast the customer experience at a comically overblown hipster coffee shops with the no-nonsense experience of getting a coffee from their McCafé. It’s a classic advertising technique — portray your brand as the best option by contrasting it with an unfavourable representation of your competitors. It’s the “Should’ve gone to Specsavers…” approach. It can be a risky approach — you don’t want to alienate any of your audience,
When it comes to advertising their no-nonsense McCafé coffee, McDonald’s have historically never been afraid to take the piss out of the competition. This ad is no exception, although it’s a slight variation on the theme — rather than satirise the customer experience of visiting a trendy coffee shop, this ad spoofs other coffee ads. By taking a montage approach and showing lots of different scenes, rather than satirising a single ‘type’ of advert from
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