GoDaddy.com has been the talk of advertising circles in the lead up to the 2006 Super Bowl. Will they get an advertisement approved by ABC and the NFL? The fuss began a year ago with the controversy over the first television commercial in which Nikki Cappelli lived dangerously with her halter strap.
So what’s been appearing [...]
Faithless released Mass Destruction as a single in June 2004, debuting at number 7 in the UK. The album, No Roots, was released in the same month and debuted at number 1. The song hit a nerve with the British public who were highly conscious of the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq [...]
Wynton Marsalis, American composer and trumpeter, featured in one of Apple’s latest iPod silhouette TV commercials. Against a blue abstract background, Marsalis plays ‘Sparks’ with members of his quartet while two dancers groove to the tune.
The spot begins with the hat-wearing male dancer clicking his fingers to the sound of Wynton’s lyrical jazz number, iPod [...]
GE (General Electric) is receiving positive feedback on its ‘Ecomagination’ campaign, gaining high recognition for television advertisements such as ‘Singing In The Rain’.
GE’s web site explains the Ecomagination concept and provides a fresh look at the television advertisements in Windows Media and Real Media formats. Click here for the Ecomagination page and here for the [...]
Here’s your chance to shape the content of this blog in 2006. In the comments leave your requests on television commercials to be covered here. What would you like to read about each ad?
Some Possibilities
1200 Truth Campaign
ABC Radio Ironing August 8
Adidas Impossible July 1
Adidas Jonah Lomu
Aleve Leonard Nimoy
American Home Health
Ampd Mobile Bus Kiss April 8
Apple [...]
Following on the success of the Spa Bomb and Bean Bomb television commercials, Lion Nathan has launched ‘Gondola’, its third TV advertisement for Hahn Premium Light beer. Research into customer responses to the first two ads showed that the sensual but funny advertisements appealed to both women and men.
The advertisement which hit screens on November [...]
After a season of advertising opportunities for consumption, we’re now seeing the medium being used to help people make the world a better place. Whatucando.org is a website designed to connect Americans with opportunities for volunteering, connecting with organizations, making donations, cause related shopping, venture philanthropy, gifts in kind and grants.
The introduction on the site [...]
Adland at Ad-Rag.com has announced a battle of the Ad Blogs. Voting is on there until February 10. The prize is a t-shirt, a Pixies CD, a brag-image, and 100 jewel cases. What’s at stake here is a bit of fun and some blogosphere glory. Sadly Adland, being the organiser, isn’t in the nominations. Oh [...]
Tabasco’s offering at the Superbowl 2005 was Tan Lines, a play on the ‘hot babe’ approach to advertising. According to Hitwise, visits to the Tabasco Web site (www.tabasco.com) increased 118 percent after the Superbowl advertisement aired on February 6.
To the sounds of the seventies hit, “Disco Inferno”, we see a young woman sunbathing on her [...]
Postal Service has hit the blogosphere news in the last week with the release of an Apple TV commercial closely resembling their 2003 music video for ‘Such Great Heights’.
See my post at here for more on the Apple Intel Factory commercial.
The music video starts in darkness, with an electronic music loop. The lights come on [...]
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