Best adverts

[Mervyn and Trish]

That will bring back the memories from your listener.

Okay Pop Pickers. Around 9.15 tomorrow. Not 'arf.

[allatc]

Remember "the Esso sign means happy motoring" ?

[towny44]

I prefered the Esso Blee Dooler.

[Onelife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB5ROD4CGG8

[oldbluefox]

Not an advert but this lad has me in stitches every time. In the background you can hear his mother doing her best not to laugh which makes it even funnier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5R1o2DgJw

[Onelife]

Not an advert but this lad has me in stitches every time. In the background you can hear his mother doing her best not to laugh which makes it even funnier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5R1o2DgJw

That must be one for the Northerners cus this proper speaking Midlander couldn’t understand a word of it

[Ray B]

Don't you just love accents.

[towny44]

Don't you just love accents.

Not on TV programmes, in whispers with lots of background music, and shot in darkness where you can hardly see their faces never mind lip read.

[Ranchi]

…and another

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4JEFd5CZ ... Bpcm4gYnJ1

[Frank Manning]

For several years between 2002 and 2012 I supervised groups of BA Business Marketing Seminars, and each group was tasked over two semesters to design and justify an Insurance product for the over 65s. Inevitably Travel Insurance came up, and one group knowing that I liked cruising, came up with a a story board for a TV advertisement as follows
Picture the P&O ad with Oriana, the music of Zadok the Priest is playing, and Oriana is approached as the music rises, the camera closes in across calm seas under a starlit sky. and goes straight to the main dining room and a table at which an elderly couple and a very young couple are just finishing their coffee. The young couple are showing visible signs of youthful passion, towards each other. The picture moves to the promenade deck, and a couple begin running away from the camera stripping their clothes off. (rear views only) they reach the swimming pool, now naked and jump in turning to the camera to reveal that it is the elderly couple, who disappear into an enormous splash just as the music reaches the climax (Zadok the Priest and Nathan the prophet), across the splash are the words 'Live Life, You're covered'.

As their lecturer, I thought it was brilliant. Those ten years of my life were among the happiest, when I see TV ads now, I often wonder if one of my students has had a hand in them.

[Onelife]

Thanks Frank…I also think it’s brilliant, so much so that I’ve just forwarded it a insurance marketing company with a little note saying “I thought this up all by myself, and can be used for a negotiable fee”.

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