Posts Tagged: Advertising

Phones Down, Please. Pure Genius From Guinness

Windows Phone 7 – Really?

Does any of this look familiar to you? I have to admit it does to me. Of late I’ve become more and more aware of how frequently I check various social networks and apps on my iPhone. Oddly I’ve found it’s the times I didn’t have the phone with me that made me most aware of whenContinue Reading ›

Nike : Write The Future

I was saying just the other day that I couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen a really great advert. Well I’ve just seen the best ad I’ve seen in a long time: Write The Future from Nike. Sure it’s a huge budget epic full of over-paid footballers, but it captures the passion and theContinue Reading ›

Advert Of The (Previous) Decade

Viewers of the UK TV station ITV have voted for the advert of the decade, even though technically this decade doesn’t end until the end of 2010, but what’s another year between friends. The winner was the excellent ‘Go On Lad’ from Hovis: I was going to challenge this, and say that they were wrong, allContinue Reading ›

My New Favourite Advert – Strongbow Bankers

I saw this at the cinema last night – brilliant!

Night Driving

Volkswagen UK have had consistently brilliant TV adverts for as long as I can remember; but Night Driving is one of their finest. The ad is beautifully shot and Richard Burton’s narration of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas works wonderfully with the soundtrack which is by Cliff Martinez from the soundtrack to the filmContinue Reading ›