by Winno | Dec 16, 2022 | TV Commercials
As is my custom each year about this time I look at the commercials produced for British retailers because, in my opinion, the English are way ahead of the advertising competition at blending the of Christmas spirit and crass commercialism. Most critics agreed that...
by Winno | Dec 2, 2022 | TV Commercials
Here’s a commercial that annoys me every time I see it and, unfortunately, that’s too often. It’s titled Mum’s Birthday. It’s from Cadbury and I hate everything about it… from the cute kid to the stereotypical shopkeeper and the idea that poor mum would...
by Winno | Nov 4, 2022 | TV Commercials
Here’s the Heinz Ketchup 2016 Hot Dog Commercial which was made especially to run during that year’s Super Bowl at the normal horrendous cost of running an advert during that event. Cute things dachshunds but not my favourites and how long can you look at dogs s’posed...
by Winno | Oct 21, 2022 | TV Commercials
I’ve extracted this from Wikipedia to set the scene for a few of these crazy commercials. “Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics chain in the north-eastern United States. The chain was started in 1971by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar. The chain rose to prominence...
by Winno | Oct 7, 2022 | TV Commercials
I often rabbit on about how much money breweries have to lavish on their commercials but there is another cadre who have heaps to spend and love spending. Who? I hear you ask. Well it’s car companies… the engineers spend bucket loads developing a new model and...
by Winno | Sep 23, 2022 | TV Commercials
You may remember when Air NZ introduced its new Australia to LA flights they used Charlie the duck as spokesperson, which was very successful. But now the Kiwis are more than annoyed by Gerry the goose doing a bit of a flog for Emirates. But the Kiwis weren’t going to...
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