3 posts tagged “advertisements”
I recently discovered that the much-loved Fosters ad that aired incessantly during the 2000 Olympics - to refresh your memory -
- is actually almost directly lifted from this ad for Molson beer in Canada -
As appealing as both ads undeniably are... don't they just reveal
the huge chips we have on our respective shoulders? As has been pointed
out by several people, it's a little sad
that ads that are supposed to define Australia and Canada's unique
identities spend half the time insisting that we're nothing like the
United States. I still love the sweet polite Canadian guy in the ad
though, although I am succumbing to another Canuck stereotype by
admitting this...
Looks like Nike is aggressively targeting the Indian market these days. This is a bloody awesome ad :)
I happened to dig up this video today from our Yellowstone trip - it never fails to crack me up after multiple replays. What I love about this is that it was totally spontaneous - came from nowhere (although now that I know Jordan a bit better I've come to expect the ahem... unexpected).
And another interesting video (not made by me, obviously):
