A hot delivery man ignores all the sexy ladies to make out with a nerdy assistant. Skyfilm Studio created this 2001 advertisement to promote the Hungarian lottery and show that winning the lottery is more likely to happen than this situation. H/T CulturePub
Catwalking naked in glamorous high heels alongside a swanky swimming pool, Eva Herzigova channels Marilyn Monroe, perhaps establishing herself as the new Blonde Bombshell.
UCLA ethnomusicology professor Tim Taylor talks with Kennedy from Reason.TV about the rise of music in radio advertising and the early days of television. Taylor is the author of a book — The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music and the Conquest of Culture.
From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more often to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since at least the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience have become irrevocably associated with specific brands and products. Today, musicians move flexibly between the music and advertising worlds, while the line between commercial messages and popular music has become increasingly blurred.
Dragging tail? Feeling down? Low on energy?
Then wise up and eat a slice of Sunbeam Bread. You’ll be bouncing around like a toad. After all: Everybody needs Energy-Packed Sunbeam Bread.
Enough with the over-produced American Superbowl ads. Here’s a little spot from Aussie Dick Smith pushing his homegrown OzeMite brands. H/T Blazing Cat Fur
Sometimes, the Superbowl ads provoke more lively debate than the game itself. Here’s a sneak peek at one of the first 2013 Superbowl commercials to be unveiled — a humorous spot for Toyota starring Kaley Cuoco from the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. She’s doing a little channeling of Samantha from Bewitched.
Want to leverage social media to succeed in the new economy? Don’t think. Don’t work. Never inject an ounce of effort into it. H/T IMAO
In this clever Ford commercial from Australia, two cane toads sit on a road at night as a car approaches, discussing poisonous venom, love and how quickly they ought to leap to safety.
On tap tonight: Heineken, Netherlands.
Passing the Swiss neutrality test. Commercial shot in Switzerland for airing in the United Kingdom.
A DAY OF BACON
In the 1970s, you could eat bacon right out of the box. Here’s a 1972 vintage commercial for Betcha Bacon, bacon strip chips featuring a young, red-haired Mason Reese as their pitchman. You might remember Reese because he also appeared in ads for Dunkin’ Donuts, Underwood Deviled Ham and other delicacies. The Betcha Bacon jingle: ”Betcha when you buy a box, you betcha wish you bought a batch.”
And just to prove bacon is the universal language, Canadians love bacon.
And so do British nudists!
