Showing posts with label Cadbury's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cadbury's. Show all posts

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. 

Monday, 16 March 2009

Not Enough, All LIES

The other day I had a Cadbury's (now fairly traded) low calorie Hot Chocolate and as I am on a diet I measured out how much water it would equal out to the amount of calorie it says. The amount of calories was 40 and this was 200ml of water. As I was not to good at measuring I measured hot water in a measuring jug and poured it in a cup. Well the shock which came to much face. Adding the hot water, it didn't even full half of the cup.

It just shows that:
  1. Even though you are on a diet, you don't only change what you eat but the amount you eat even if it is healthy (and if you buy a healthy microwave meals then there is no hope it getting a decent size meal)
  2. When you see something which says low calorie, don't instantly think this is good as the quantity may be rubbish. Check the back of the package for the calories, to the amount of what ever needed i.e. water to calories.
  3. If you are on a diet I suggest you cook (not microwave or oven ready meal), and then you can control how much you wish to have (only do this if you have the control and KNOW when to stop).