Friday, January 21, 2005 |
09:30 - Oh... my... God...
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2005/01/vw_polo_one_in_.html
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If it isn't a spoof of some kind, or a "viral marketing" thing (like the SportKa ads), this VW Polo ad has to be high in the running for Best Ad Evar.
Yeesh! How does something like this get made? One would think it would be even harder in Europe than here to do stuff like this... but then, something tells me that the European advertising industry, and particularly the British one, sort of operates apart from the system, and the normal laws of physics don't apply to them.
Check out this campaign slyly by IKEA in England... be sure to check out the commercials. Why can't we have stuff like this?
...Well, okay, we have Jack in the Box, so I'm not complaining. Okay, yes I am, because Jack doesn't put his ads online. Damn him. Maybe only because there are so many great ones by now?
They should release a DVD.
Via JMH.
UPDATE: I'm informed by a British friend that this ad was produced under contract for VW, but was rejected (gasp!) and never broadcast.
Too bad. (I wonder if it was the same agency that did the SportKa spots.) I was all set to be forever in awe of the British advertising agency as one of those cultural treasures that must at all costs be preserved for posterity.
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