21 Jun 2011
The Power of Words
Wow. Did that hit a few emotional chords.
Really amazing
via @DeanOelsch
Wow. Did that hit a few emotional chords.
Really amazing
via @DeanOelsch
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3JjtZlPdLs
These puppets runs across most of the Sky channels. They’re the Diet Coke ‘sassy marionettes’ and they’ve got names, day jobs at a fashion mag and choreographed dance moves to match.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRtujWY0OZs
To be honest, they really freak me out. Like Bratz dolls with disposable income.
Puppets don’t scream freedom to choose, do they? Plus people who operate marionettes in their spare time, are called manipulators … which is an odd message to send out.
Each time I see them, I imagine some giant Puppeteer (who looks like Tony Blair for some reason) over at Coke pulling their strings and making them pick up a coke light.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcKMkC7LpJE
These ads don’t need any introduction. I get goosebumps every time I watch the first one. These are true South African classics.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zmQBNnaAeQ
They make you feel all fuzzy and patriotic inside.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayoz5jEyuXo&NR=1
Remember the Castrol adverts?
Back in 1988, beloved characters Boet (Ian Roberts) and Swaer (Norman Anstey) arrived on South African screens in a series of Castrol ads. I still love watching them get lost in translation with a stranded Spaniard 
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3J40JauwU&feature=related
Remember the ad from Mnet with the chorus of singing animals and the broadway casting director?
For me they are some of the most loved adverts in South African history.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhvOjrMon4&feature=related
Dont quit your day job now Ninjabeans
I loved this advert when I was little. The narrators voice sounds so old-school now.
The two pencil people are drawn onto our screens, followed by some scenery and hopefully a bunch of flowers. The girl offers the guy her last rolo, because she utterly adores him.
Now If that’s not true, chocolate-coated love, then I don’t know.
I think about current adverts with extravagant budgets to accommodate special effects, fast cars, famous spokespeople, faster planes and crazy stunts for products like deoderant and razor blades (because when you shave , you need to pretend you’re in a jet).
They’re all a blur though and I can’t really remember any of them. Yet I can remember this simple rolo advert from years ago.
Sometimes simple hits the mark better than O.T.T ever could.
So do you love anyone enough to give them your last rolo?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YZ4R1fNYzI
Ps This girlfriend makes me look bad …I don’t give away my last rolo.. sorry they’re just too yummy.
Backstage a few weeks ago, I was trying to remember this advert. I kept telling the cast that there were elephants and they were friends and brothers and they were crossing the desert.
I got some pretty skeptical looks …. no one knew what I was rattling on about.
I finally found it !
It’s an old IBM advert. I think it’s the song that does it and I mean who doesn’t love ellies?
PG Tips has been voted the nations favourite cuppa in Britain. Given Britain’s obsession with tea, that’s quite something. I think their adverts are largely responsible. One of the recnt ones features a knitted chimp and I love it so much that it almost made me switch from morning coffee to tea… almost.
Because let’s face it … who doesn’t want to start their day with a monkey who is partial to a bit of cabaret.
It’s brillint : kick start your day with the ad .. never mind the tea!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KImlQTRXDPk&feature=related
I also found one of their adverts from 1971 featuring a host of real chimps. If you’re feeling nostalgic, give it a watch . I laughed quite a bit.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzEBLa3PPk&feature=related
It seems they’ve kept their brand humour pretty consistent across the years. Almost a 40 year gap between both ads and they still feel the same… a brand that has kept up with change but not forgotten who they are.
It’s the Taste!
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