Showing posts with label Adverts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adverts. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Coca Cola

just searching through the web doing some Web Skipping (Like Channel Skipping, get it) and I did come across Coca Cola and one thing led to another and ended up looking at a numerous number of there TV advertisements.
Now watching these adverts, as well as there amazing Coke Drinks and the hundreds of other drink (people living in the UK here have never herd of) they make, they definitely should pride themselves on the real captivating adverts they make and the team which work on them.
Sharing the Happiness and the Coke side of my life with you, here are a couple of adverts which I think are really cool and here is a link to there YouTube Channel which you should check out in some free time.



Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Telling the Truth Advertising

This Advert made me laugh for ages. It is generally advertising Blur, the new racing game.
"Blur Delivers bruising 20-car pile-ups in modified real-world street layout for the ultimate in after-dark, illicit, high speed thrills and spills. And, most thrilling of all, Blur supercharges you super car with no just the usual nitrous oxide speed boosts, but an arsenal of weapons to take the enemy drivers off the track."- Quote from Game

In other words it is a real racing game (for the Big Boys). To get a better idea of what real racing games are, Burnout, Gran Turismo, Project Gotham Racing, Split Second, these are examples of real racing game, even though most things on there cannot be done. Then there are game like Mario Kart, Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, Cars Race-O-Rama.

This I think is a great advertising Strategy for the game showing the opinion of a lot of people and TELLS THE TRUTH FOR THE FIRST TIME. This advert shows what a lot of gamers think about non real racing games and what they are really for. Just take a look.

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Advertising could need some Organising.

Earlier today Watching TV with my mum, we saw the advert Change 4 Life. You know the one where it makes you feel like crap because you are not doing any exercising and sitting down on the settee watching TV, yeah that one. Well this one was purely about being fat (so made me even worse). This was about getting healthy, fit and changing what you eat with for healthier things and also smaller portions.
Now not noticing until my mum pointed it out but what stupid idiots put an Oreo Cookies advert straight after the Change 4 Life Advert. You first feel like crap and then wanting Oreo's. As I know from many years of experience (Clearing my throat) YOU CAN NOT HAVE BOTH. If you want us to abide by something, then don't go putting on an advert on which we will stop abiding after 10 seconds.
Thats all, thank you, my rant is over.

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Glad to See It.

from a previous post 'Is There Some Reason' talking about mostly how Sony doesn't advertise any of there PlayStation consoles, well I am happy to say that they have read my post and took my advice, or I would like to think and they have started making adverts advertising the PS3 and PSP for exclusive games and there console generally in the advert also.
So just for something to watch here is one of the adverts by Sony.This advert is for the new game Uncharted.

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Is There Some Reason.

Now on TV the up and coming Call Of Duty Modern War Fare 2 is going on sale on Tuesday (just some information, Game in Queens Street Cardiff is opening at 12.00.01 on Tuesday, so wish I could see the line). Now to be fair to all Consoles, not including Nintendo Consoles (Narrowing it down to 2 Companies Microsoft and Sony), the advert for COD Modern War Fare 2, at the end is advertised for Xbox. Now I know I partly own an Xbox which I love and should be liking the advert, but at the same time I don't own a PS3 but love that as I am a big Sony fan, also I think it is a bit rude that they are not showing that COD Modern War Fare 2 or even another Multi platform console game is on other consoles.

I have a theory why they could be doing this:
Many people know that it is coming to their desired console and therefore the company doesn't need to advertise the game.
The company is really Money safe and can't be bothered to make an advert about the game with their console one it.

The big Company name that doesn't show Multi Platform games on there console are Sony. The only time they show an advert including any of their consoles is when they have a new exclusive game coming out and not all the time they create an advert. I am not trying to slag off Sony but this is more advice which I am not telling Sony. They really could be losing a lot of money from not advertising enough and not selling as many consoles and games as they wish. If they are doing big advertisements in America and making money from games and consoles over there I don't know, but they could be making even more money over in other countries including United Kingdom.

Sunday, 17 May 2009

The Things Which Annoy us Most?

TV always feeds you loads of mostly useless information, but the information that will impress your friends and at the same time make you look like a idiot. "Next up it's the Top 2o Best Ever ITV Ads." 

Not sure if it was me or the TV screamed out BLOG. Note pad and pen at the ready with V+ box to rewind if I miss anything. For your pleasure (I'm sure) here are the top 20 Best Ever ITV Ads. [Warning] Younger readers might not know many or even any, there is always YouTube. All he a have links so that you can view them. 

Described by Celebrities as a 'Mini Soap Opera' and was compared to Dallas (i.e. Sexual tension). In other words an advert which tries to avoid promoting the product and ANOTHER sex sells ad. 

There was 13 different Milky Bar Kids and all went for the part for the years supply of chocolate, in the end the one Milky Bar kid did so many takes that when he bit off the chocolate, at the end spat it in a bucket. But here is something you most properly never thought of, white albino kids eating white chocolate featured in a western town. Some people need to proof read their ads just as I need to proof read my blog posts.

After the one day of shooting the ad and seeing it on TV for just a year, 30 years gone she still remembers the song. In result of doing the advert another household name was born. Sure, anyone who could dance like she did and clean shouldn't be a household name but be a lesson to not become a house wife and do something.

Well, if it was me doing the ads then I would have got tried of eating Walkers Crisps years back. Surprisingly the concept of the ad was 'No more Mr nice guy.' Was it me or again did anyone else miss that concept. 

This classic and amazing ads was ITV's longest running ad chimpaign (Campaign, funny) inspired by the London Zoo's Chimp tea Party, that's one weird thought. Over 100 monkeys appeared in the ads, this means either some of them got fired for not behaving, they retired or they died. I know which one I am picking. 

This advert featured a load of people coming together and forming a image. Each person must of got a big chunk of money for the ad to cost a million pounds. I can name a million ways I can spend a million pounds. Just a waste of money.

This is your typical Nike advert where casually people are playing football and professional football players appear to come onto the pitch and start playing football. Then they had an interview with some of the players years after and they said that they knew nothing about it. If that is true then all the other Nike adverts with professional players appearing are all fake. 

It was shocking to find out that they used a real employee to play the part and in conclusion to the ads, he released his own single (first time I have heard about that) which reached the top 20s and yet is still working in Halifax (must not be getting much for the single and the ads if he is still working there).

All the advert is that they people do things which makes people think that they drink Carling. Simple and yet funny and effective.

'This was a fantasy figure like a James Bond in an advert' 6 different men played the fantasy man (sex seriously does sell) One the last ad they showed the face and voice of the woman in 2000. And now all is left of the ad is fancy dress at a Christmas party Jongudmund

Top 10
The first person shown was never with everyone else as all the other people were filmed in Rome. FAQ WHY.

Happiness is when you have a Cigar, Can't really comment but when it comes down to it, I don't need to as it was BANDED.

I would want to direct an advert with a Cat, a Mouse and a Dog. But when the dog like 'Dolly Mixtures' the cat likes 'prawns' and the mouse will follow a mouses urine, it does become easier when you work with something they like and very strange animals.

Staring Peter Key and when an advert has Peter Key in you can only expect one thing, Comedy.

Now please leave a comment if anyone has ever seen horses up over 10 foot waves and bigger with a surfer who didn't want to do the advert riding a wave. Just shows that not everyone will do something for fame.

Who would just want to watch an advert with people talking over the phone. And even worse it's a typical conversation about a mother nagging their son, what else to do an advertise BT, and they are talking about exam results. Rubbish.

This is the creature comfort country side advert but talking about electricity. Yet it can be so entertaining watching people who had been interviewed and turned into animated animals. Another fact, they didn't turn the TV series into adverts but turned the adverts into a TV series. 

Again, another sex sells advert with a supposed good looking guy (not) going into a launderette and taking off his Levis and washing them, waiting for them in his pants. Realistically, who would do that. 

This is what an advert should be, but maybe slightly changed. Just telling us what the product is and that simply it. All the information and something funny at the end making it GOOD. 

And ITV number 1 advert is
Celebrities thoughts "It is like a cult classic", "They absolutely riped the pea out of the human race", "British humour at it's best and still funny", "Loved smash adverts fantastic and made me laugh." I think what made it funny is that people liked to do the voice of the Martians and if you stickied a different voice on the Martians, they just wouldn't be funny. And not to forget the laugh. An idea like this could only come from a night out at a Pub. 

There you go 'Top 20 best ever ITV ads.' Conclusion, you can't get many good ads, you can get a lot of information out of nothing, I have nothing else better to do with my time and Blame ITV for advertisements if you get sick of them as they were the first broadcasting channel to air an advert. 

Saturday, 4 April 2009

How to Advertise

Advertising on TV recently has become a bit dodgy. All these new techniques (this is what I am calling them) of advertising. Next thing we will know all adverts will be copy follow the Shepard and eventually we will have no idea what is being advertised on our TVs.
Techniques which could well catch on for companies is

Produce an advert which doesn't relate to what the company produces at all. This has been done by Cadbury's, THREE TIMES (which comes to no surprise). Seriously what is the point of having kids raising there eyebrows to some techno music and Aeroplane vehicles racing down a runway and driving over luggage bags, Someone tell me what has this got to do with chocolate. Unfortunately I have a very strong feeling that this will catch on.

Animation is a good way of advertising as it is cheap and you can also add funky music in the background. Done by 118 247, such a great advert which can make you laugh. Put a rhythm in with the words and you have a funny advert. This is a technique I hope that will catch on. Great.

Make adverts SEXY. Add anything which is sexy in an advert and it will sell and fly out of the store. This technique of advertising has already been used in many adverts, Birds eye Fish Fingers, all make up adverts and also I saw one the other day which actually looked like a porno but was an advert for Kiss FM (I had to check I wasn't watching the American Super Bowl for a second). 

There are many ways to advertise and some of these can be great, some of them can be really rubbish an also disturbing. I know which types of advert I want to see on my TV from now on.