August 26, 2023

Here’s A List Of Advertising Campaigns That I Found!

 Here’s A List Of Advertising Campaigns That I Found!


  • Australian Yellow Pages has had a few memorable ads, including the Goggomobile Guy and "Not Happy, Jan!"
  • "I like Aeroplane Jelly! Aeroplane Jelly for me..."
  • Then there's Mortein's "Louie the Fly" and all of its descendants, which, like the Vegemite and Aeorplane Jelly jingles cited above, date back to before television. And the Mortein ads are on TV Tropes, ironically. As those singers say: More smart, more safe!
  • We see your American and Australian Coke commercials and give you this
  • The Get A Load of Milk campaign. Short (5 seconds) clips showing what milk can do you for you. They always end with that cowbell sound.
  • The Grey Power auto insurance commercial featuring the slogan, "You don't drive like her, so why are you paying the same insurance premiums as her?" It ran for years in Ontario
  • Chocolate brand Milka became memetic in the nineties due to it's TV commercial, where we see a man discovering several moutain animals making Milka chocolate bars, with particuliar attention to a marmot putting the chocolate in tinfoil. The man is then seen explaining the marmot part to a woman, who looks crazy at him. It was so memorable that today, "La marmotte, elle met le chocolat dans le papier alu”  became a common expression, used to reply to someone telling blatant lies.
  • French ISP Free always made humorous commercials to show their (then) unusual advantages over their competitors. Some examples include mall cops laughing at a woman shoplifting Internet access CDs (advertising their unlimited Internet access) or a man insulting himself every time he sees his reflection in a mirror because he could've gotten faster Internet for the same price with Free. The one who went memetic was the adventures of Rodolphe, a very geeky man who used the various services of Free to improve his life, such as teaching how to French kiss to tourists (he can call every country in the world for a pittance with his Internet access) or beating up a sensei (he can watch martial arts movies with Free's VOD offer), followed by Free's tagline : "Il a Free, il a tout compris
  • Maxol's "Free a Nipper" campaign, in which Brendan Grace would encourage motorists' children to convince their parents to take home one of the bunny-like Nipper puppets.
  • Interestingly, the MORNING RESUCEwas kept for the overseas release of Puella Magi Madoka Magica subs, and it reached memetic status due to the Soundtrack Dissonance when compared to the anime. Know Your Meme goes more in-depth.
  • Hungry Days, a series of commercials for Nissin Cup Noodles about nostalgic characters in a High School AU.
  • Mitre 10's "Sandpit"ad, which combines two things Kiwis love - DIY, and making fun of Australians.
  • Halifax has achieved some notability in recent years with its rewritten pop songs featuring real staff from the company. Most Halifax ads traditionally feature a large crowd of people forming an X in the middle of a wide open area
  • Another long running campaign was for Cadbury's Flake bars, which featured various young ladies enjoying the sensual pleasure of crumbly chocolate in private. "Only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate, tastes like chocolate never tasted before." Recently brought back, with Joss Stone.
  • P. G. Tips Tea had a very long-running campaign featuring "talking" chimpanzees, until the concept became politically incorrect. The best-remembered ad (possibly inspired by a Laurel and Hardy short) featured two chimps as removal men trying to push a piano upstairs.


    Son: Dad, do you know the piano's on my foot?
    Dad: You hum it, son - I'll play it.


    • These days, they use Monkey, a cuddly tiny sock monkey who was earlier on the (now-defunct) ITV Digital adverts, ironically, the company went defunct before he was even hired for these ads
    • "Compare the Meerkat Dot Com; Compare The Market Dot Com. Simples!"
    • You do the shake and vac, and put the freshness back.
    • Vic's Sinex "Course you can, Malcolm!" adverts became Memetic Mutation in The '70s.
    • Churchill Car Insurance, after years of fairly straightforward adverts, became notable after they adopted a Winston Churchill-like dog being asked questions about insurance by an unseen narrator 
    • A series of Levi's Jeans commercials in the late 90's followed the adventures of Flat Eric, a yellow, monkey-like puppet who liked techno music, and Angel, his human partner, who always seemed to have a bored look on his face. The two drove around California, the audience never really knowing what it was they were up to (although it was confirmed at one point that they were wanted for something or other). Despite this, the character of Flat Eric became quite popular in the late 90's, and the song that he dances to in this ad became a hit.
    • "Only the rich meaty sauce of Chef Boyardee can Tame The Beast"
    • GEICO, an automobile insurance company, has several memorable series:
      • One 'Bad News, Irrelevant News' parody; the bad news was always something horrible like "You have cancer", "but I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by Switching To GEICO!"
      • A series of Commercial Switcheroo ads. It slices, it dices, it regrows hair, it grates cheese, "but it won't save you any money on car insurance."
      • One fictional series with the tagline "So easy a caveman could do it," with the real series following the cavemen offended by it. They somehow got their own sitcom, though it was quickly cancelled. Notably, the caveman has been in GEICO commercials for years, but without re-telling the original joke or using the slogan. Unless one were familiar with the original ad, they'd have no idea why a hairy guy keeps getting offended at the mere mention of GEICO.
      • Also, before even the gecko, there was a crudely drawn cartoon character who takes some kind of Schmuck Bait, and gets slapsticked for it. Geico logo comes up; "We all do dumb things. Paying too much for car insurance shouldn't be one of them."
      • A car drives along a twisty mountain road. A squirrel darts into its path and the car swerves to miss it, careening off the road. A second squirrel appears and slaps paws with the first one as if to say, "You da squirrel!"
      • "I just want to make an omelette
      • A stack of bills with plastic googly eyes sitting on top, representing "the money you could be saving with Geico." Hey, nobody bats a thousand.
  • The "Get Happier, Get GEICO" commercials, which indicate that people who save money with GEICO are happier than a humorous example:
    • Esurance had ads featuring the animated adventures of Erin Esurance, a secret agent who fights both crime and the expense and red tape of other car insurance companies, and featured slick Flash animation by Ghostbot. Esurance had to retire Erin once it became glaringly clear that people were watching the commercials really forher, not because they wanted to quote, print, or buy.
    • Allstate's "Mayhem" ads, featuring a guy in a suit describing himself as a person or object that then causes something to be damaged or destroyed, with the note that a low-grade insurance policy might not cover the damage and the tagline "Get Allstate, and be protected from mayhem...like myself”
    • The original Commercial Switcheroo-based Energizer Bunny commercials where they did fake commercials for nonexistent products, then interrupted them with their character. Though that particular campaign is dead, it propelled to prominence a mascot who keeps going, and going, and going, and... going…
      • A particularly memorable ad featured the Trix rabbit, in a live-action and realistic setting, claiming victory in buying Trix (which the cashier recognizes is for kids) from a grocery store (in a human costume), an emotion which soon turned to sadness as he forgot to buy milk.
    • "Don't. Squeeze. The. Charmin!!" ...or Mr. Whipple will come and get you in your sleep.
    • Quiznos' commercials featuring the Spongmonkeys are notable in that it's the first time that an Internet meme was commercially exploited. You either loved or hated the commercials that resulted; the Modern Humoristcommented that they are "what you see before you go..." On the other hand, "they've got a pepper bar!"
    • M&Ms candy-coated chocolate: "Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand."
      • And the commercials with the talking, walking M&Ms.
    • "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!"
      • For awhile there in the late 20th-century, it was impossible to sell cereal to American children except via wacky mascot. Other iconic examples included Cap'n Crunch, Frankenberry, Count Chocula, a little bird who was perpetually 'Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs' and a leprechaun who instead of gold hoarded delicious marshmallows from devious kids: "They're always after me Lucky Charms
      • "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" For all the serious nature of the product, the Life Alert call button, it was an unforgettable line.
      • McDonaldland 
        • Also: "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun" for McDonald's Big Mac.
          • McWORLD~!♪ (Hey, it could happen.)
          • "You deserve a break today...", which premiered around 1981 but has come back a few times since.
          • "It's a good time for the great taste of McDonald's."
          • Bah bah bah bah BAH! I'm lovin' it.
        • Domino's Pizza introduced the 'Noid, an odd claymation goblin in a red rabbit costume who makes it his business to stomp on pizzas.
        • Star-Kist Tuna's Charlie the Tuna, and his hilarious if vaguely disturbing obsession with being classy enough to be put in a can. "Sorry Charlie, Star-Kist doesn't want tuna with good taste... Star-Kist wants tuna that tastes good!"
        • "The bigger the burger, the better the burger, the burgers are bigger at Burger King."
          • In the same vein: "Have it your way, have it your way, have it your way at Burger King"
          • There's also the campaign starring 'Herb, the one man in America who has never eaten at a Burger King', which is memorable for just how spectacularly it failed.
          • More recent campaigns have focused simply on The Burger KingDon't go to bed before he does.
        • hhgregg did a series of ads featuring hh, a sentient rolled-up hhgregg ad.
        • CALL J.G. WENTWORTH! 877-CASH-NOW!
        • Liberty Mutual, in recent years, have one in their LiMu Emu and Doug commercials.
        • Don't forget the Chick-fil-A Cows... "EAT MOR CHIKIN".
        • "If ever you're not satisfied with one of our tires, please feel free to bring it back." Cue an old lady throwing her tire into the window of a Discount Tire shop ("Thank you!")


        That’s All For These Advertising Campaigns That I Found! 

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