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Stressed business man gets a call from his wife | Polaroid 1996 commercial
A great commercial that must have gotten shared a lot. But without mentioning low price, ease of use, fast developing, or some other benefit at the end, I wounder how many viewers could recall the sponsor. Was it Polaroid camera? Or was it Kodak film?
Share a Can of Coke
Coke wants to be synonymous with having friends and experiencing happiness. And they’ve developed many brilliant campaigns to help them establish that association. Here are a few…
1970s Avis ‘We Try Harder’ TV Commercials
Here are a couple more commercials in the classic Avis campaign… And here is a wonderful video of how this campaign came about…
Great Example of Lifestyle Branding Advertising | MARLB0R0
Coke, Harley Davidson, California Cooler, Nike and even Winchester ammunition have succeeded with identity-based or lifestyle marketing–where a product is synonymous with a feeling or emotion. Product attributes or features are rarely, if ever, mentioned. In addition to their legendary print ads and billboards, here were other TV commercials in this campaign…
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Authenticity and Credibility in Advertising Design | Dannon Yogurt
Background on this campaign from Wikipedia:
Shots of elderly Georgian farmers were interspersed with an off-camera announcer intoning, “In Soviet Georgia, where they eat a lot of yogurt, a lot of people live past 100.” Each shot had a caption at the bottom, which would tell the audience the farmer’s name and his or […]