Television Adverts
Television adverts have been around since the dawn of the television box. Over the years they have changed dramatically trying to catch the eye of its captive audience to sell products from alcohol to aspirin, make up to moon boots.
Not everyone likes television adverts but one thing is for sure, sometimes the advertising companies do surprise us with some unique and interesting adverts that really get people talking.
Television Adverts Worldwide
A little background info
U.S.A - 18 minutes of adverts every hour
United Kingdom - 12 minutes of adverts every hour
Germany - 12 minutes of adverts every hour
Ireland - 10 minutes of adverts every hour
Russia - 15 minutes of adverts every hour
Over the last 40 years these figures have increased dramatically, an example of this is the United Kingdom which only allowed 7 minutes of advertising an hour in the 1960's.
Television Adverts
The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Commercials (Berenstain Bears)
Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 07/19/2008)
Acting in Commercials: A Guide to Auditioning and Performing on Camera
Amazon Price: $17.95 (as of 07/19/2008)
The Hidden Persuaders
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/19/2008)
My Favourite Adverts - Guinness Adverts
Over the past few years most of my favourite adverts have been advertising the Guiness brand.
The below advert was created in 1999 and won the best Television advert of all time award the following year.
Guinness Advert - The Surfer
Guinness 'Surfer'
This astonishing visual effect was created for the latest Guinness television commercial, 'Surfer', which first aired in the UK on 17th March 1999.
Runtime: 0:58
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Great Advert Stuff on CafePress
My Favourite Adverts - Honda Adverts
One of my favourite Honda adverts is below, its one where parts of the car move along in a jigsaw knocking each other to complete another task until the Honda Accord is rolled off the stage its on.
What is amazing about this advert is that it had minimal graphic work done and that a huge majority of what you see actually happened...not quite in sequence as they edited it but you get the picture.
Honda Accord Advert
The Cog - Honda Advert
Awesome advert done a few years back, minimal graphics involved! -(edit (13/jun/07) oh the tyres are weighted btw lol)
Runtime: 2:00
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Great Advertising Stuff on eBay
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Television Adverts - Summary
It will be interesting to find out how the advertising companies plan to keep us engaged with new and innovative adverts. If the ones above are anything to go by the next decade will be an interesting time as companies jostle for space to think of amazing new ways of getting us to buy their products.
