I know it puts me in the minority, but I've always loved TV commercials. Sure, the bad ones are bad, but the good ones are art. The Clio Awards (for excellence in advertising) last week, and here's the list of winners. After the jump, some highlights from various categories.The first is an ad for Skittles, and it's deranged:
This one is for T-Mobile. This happens to me every time I go to the train station:
This one you shouldn't even watch. I'm serious, just scroll down the page. It's goes beyond NSFW. (You want to watch it now, don't you?):
It's the 50th anniversary of Clio, so they honored a classic from 1963:
And here's one that I've never been impressed by, but it won a silver award:
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5-18-2009 @ 6:29PM
Galley said...
I didn't figure out the first one until the very end. The dude was a piñata.
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5-18-2009 @ 7:51PM
Gordy said...
Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' ad campaign won silver in the Integrated Campaign category, but the image they pulled for the Clio book is the PC guy from Apple's 'I'm a Mac/I'm a PC' ad campaign. Funny.
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5-19-2009 @ 4:23PM
dkcincos said...
I should have listened to you about the bontrust ad. totally disturbing!
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