Since last Monday, I’ve posted the following at Duncan’s TV Adland:
Boots Skin Care
‘Translucent Baby’, ‘Human Plant’ and ‘Tear Drop’: three amazing feats of visual effects, inspiring us with the research being done by Boots the pharmaceutical company.
Boots The Chemists has about 30 stores in the Republic of Ireland. Thailand has around 70 Boots stores and Taiwan 5 but in other parts of the world, such as the Far East and on a very small scale in America, Boots largely operates out of implants, where other retailers sell Boots products. Anybody been to a Boots store recently?
Playstation 2 Mountain
That ad from 2003 in which a crowd goes ‘troppo’ and races to the top of an apartment building in Rio de Janeiro. I’m still not sure if I’m inspired by the ad or slightly turned off by the sheer competitive nature of the scenario. The ad’s meant to get us on board with the international community made possible through online play.
Typhoo Better Way to Wake Up
I’d never heard of Typhoo despite the fact that it’s the third most popular brand of tea in Britain after PG Tips and Tetley. I had someone do a search of Duncan’s TV Adland in the Google Search Bar, with the phrase, “Better Way to Wake Up”. Probably a marketer. Anyway I had to find it and post the story of the family who compare waking up with a cup of Typhoo tea with being woken up by a drill sergeant, a bucket of water, and a cockerel.
Typhoo ‘Better Way to Wake Up’
Levis Odyssey
This was one of the first TV ads I ever saw as a quicktime video. It’s a dramatic race of a man and woman through the walls of an empty apartment building, out into a forest and into a sky – all to show the freedom of Levi’s Engineered Jeans. I’ve included the Lilt spoof that uses the same soundtrack, Handel’s Sarabande from his suite in D minor.
Coca Cola Bears
There have been ten polar bear coke ads since 1993. This year Coca Cola have used partying Emperor penguins to introduce coca cola to the polar bear family. Geographically speaking, either the polar bears are visiting the Antarctic or the penguins are visiting the Arctic. Does it matter?
Virgin Mobile Chrismahanukwanzakah
This is the sequel to last year’s irreverent hat tip to religious pluralism and political correctness. The ads include a singing Hindu Santa and a couple of old Jewish men singing ‘Dreidel’ at the door.
Virgin Mobile Chrismahanukwanzakah
Kleenex Monk
This morning’s ad introduces the Kleenex Anti-Viral Tissues through the conscience of a Franciscan monk who thanks goodness for forgiveness when he realises that he has killed a virus. Interesting to note that some people assume he’s a Buddhist.