Ad #45: French's Mustard

I am using this ad because it is the closest i could get to the "Smile you've got French's" Ad campeign that ran when I was a kid. To this day I still draw a smiling face on my burger with my mustard =) This ad is saying almost the same thing with its tag line of "Happy Starts Here." It shows French's mustard almost with the product is hero role, because it comes in and makes every happy. The product is shwon throughout the whole 30 sec spot, and it is shwon with people that are happy about it. They also use it to draw stuff like every kid does with the awesome squeeze top bottle =p They do not seem to have a specific audience but if I had to guess I would say kids because of the creative and silly aspect of the mustard drawing things. I really do not see any negatives to this commercial =)

Ad #44: Heinz Ketchup

Since my last ad was pickles I thought I would do an ad on ketchup and mustard too =) I really like this ad because it pushes the brand identity to saying that Heinz ketchup is all natural. In the first ad they have sliced tomatoes shaped like the ketchup bottle with a Heinz label on it, very innovative. In the second picture it has a ketchup bottle bottom with a tomato stem stick out of it, which makes people think fresh vine ripe. =) Both of these ads make Heinz look good about using fresh ingredients and being as close to a tomato as ketchup can be. The product is the center of the Ad and they found a very innovative way to portray the product. This ad has no limit to target audience because everyone loves Ketchup. I also really like this ad because even though they do not say it here, Heinz is the only ketchup that does not use corn syrup in their ingredients!!

Ad #43: Vlasic Pickles

I saw this ad in Brookshires and thought it was really cute. It is a cutting hanging off the end cap where the hamburger buns were. What it said was witty to me and amusing. It also made me want a pickle and so I bought some. It uses the character that everyone knows as the Vlasic stork =) They also use one of the 5 Ps, Placement by putting this ad right by the hamburger buns so that if people are having a cookout they wont forget the pickles. This ad does not seem to have a specific target audience, just anyone that either enjoys pickles or is having a cook out =) Yummy!!

Ad #42: Vinage Ads, Campbells Soup

I thought this ad was really good. It shows bright colored happy and vibrant kids that eat cambpells soup and then a dingy looking tired child and dog that are called junkfood. I love the play they used of junkfood dog instead of junkyard dog. But this ad has the charracter promoting eating healthy, and to eat thealthy they say that you should eat campbells soup. This positions the product, and makes people want to buy it. It target children probably from 4-8 with the cartoon characters.

Ad #41: Vintage Ads, Baby Cola

This ad promoted giving soda to a baby that is at the most 8 months old. Obviously now days we know that that is preposterous and I hope they did then because children that young would have tummy problems if they were given any large amounts of soda. This ad targets mother with children saying that you should give your kids soda because its good for them and they will like it, when inr eality it was NOT good for them though they probably did like it. I do not think this ad was affective most because women are smart enough to know better than to give a baby Coca Cola. From an advertising stand point though I do not htink it hits the target audience well, but it does position the product well.

Ad #40: Vintage Ads, Smoking

Or she'll die early from lung cancer. People were so misguided about cigarettes. They thought all kind of things like they were cool, and made you have better sex, and that they were actually HEALTHY for you. Silliness. This is a good Ad though, it targets its audience as men probably from 20-40s looking for a pretty girl. This ad says if you smoke this cigarette beautiful women will follow you everywhere. This also shows the product and all the different varieties it offers. It positions this product well and probably was pretty effective in its time period.

Ad #39: Banned Ads, Master Card murder=priceless?

So this is a really creepy ad. =S I think they meant for this to be humorous but it went the opposite direction into disturbing. Obviously it was banned for violence and should have been banned for the creep factor alone. This commerical uses the classic Mastercard style listing something and its costs, then another thing and its cost and eventually getting to the something that is priceless. In this case though they leave out the priceless slogan and use text to say "there are some things money shouldn't buy" and stick with the newer tagline, "for everything else there is mastercard." This also does not show the product in use. Even though we know from the format it is master card we do not see the product at all or hear the voice of the announcer instead it is all doen in text. In all I think this is an ineffective and tasteless commercial

Ad #38 Banned Ads, Viagra

This ad is funny and interesting. They use to speech in the ad just a brief text at the end saying with added Viagra. This shows the product in use saying that you can get a stronger erection with the use of Viagra. I'M really not sure why it would have been banned unless it was false advertising or fluff since doing a push up with a penis seems a little implausible, no matter how "strong" it may be. This ad probably target men that are 35 and older with erectile dysfunction or that want a stronger erection. These men are probably also at the age where they are gaining weight and losing their physique so the man doing push ups is a good way to promote this product.

Ad #37: Banned Ads, Hand-guns

This begins my section on banned ads. They are different and banned for different reasons.

So this is really humorous and just a really witty cool way to think of using guns and xbox. Literally it is like these people jump into this game in the middle of their regular day. It is really cool, but was banned for the violence and usage of "guns." While it is really cool and really memorable it is also really long 1.05 when most commercials are only 30 mins. It also does not even mention the project until the very end but since it is really interesting commercial people might watch until they to find out what is going on. Also this ad kind of does promote violence. It also does not really promote the product well because it just has a small mention of it at the very end of the ad and does not mention any functions or specialities of the product.

Ad #36: Sex Sells

Last Ad is a must. Calvin Klien Jeans ad with almost NO Jeans in it!!!! =0 So as I have said before Calvin Klien uses sexual advertising all the time. In this one you have three young people making out/ all half naked probably about to do something more explicit that cannot be shown in advertising, but what you DO NOT see is the jeans. You see the waiste bands of the jeans and the cuf of the shorts but that is all. Its like they says the name Calvin Klien will get you sex with really good looking people. THese ad are targetted at young people and this may work because it catches people's attention so they look at it and see the Calvin Klien logo and get a familiarization with the brand. But I think this ad is rediculous because it does not even show the product!!

Ad #35: Sex Sells, PCI

Okay so this is an ad for Pci: Hair beauty nails makeup fragrance, and I only knew that because it was in the caption above the photo. I have no idea what this ad has to do with makeup or fragrance because the girl is not wearing make up and it was not a scatch and sniff. This ad does catch people's attention it is very beautifully and artfully done, but it does NOT promote the product almost at all. This only way even fans would know it was a PCI ad is because th logo is at the very bottom in VERY SMALL print. This ad really is not that great

Ad #34 Sex Sells, Condom

So that ad is an Ad for Condomi Vienna ultra-thin condoms. At first I really did not get how it was a sexual ad until a friend pointed it out I thought it was just a bubble *blush.* I think this is an intersting way to advertise a super thing condom and obviously if it is as thin as a bubble it would feel like nothing =) or sticky soap suds (one negative). Another thing I did not like about it was that it is a bubble and bubble stick and that feel to me like selling sex to kids because the only people that play with bubbles are me and little kids. I feel that this ad is just inapropriate because it is just not in a good context and would probably be ignored.

Ad #33: Sex Sells, Seamen

Obviously sexual! Lots of sex ladies in bikinis and SEAMEN WANTED!! Now that is a very big sexual statement. The really amusing part of this ad is that it actually is selling sex, well kind of. . . This was done my a cruise company that were promoting the sexual possibilities on the cruise ships. This obviously will hit their target audience, young men between 21-35! And the ad campeign actually worked to get more people onboard their cruises. The biggest problem was that it is really sexest and it promotes situations that can lead to date rape and overdose/alcohol poisening, which they were actually suid for. They eventually had to cancell the campeign and issue a personal apology to some poeple that had such problems.

Ad #32: Sex Sells, Smoking Sex

Okay so this is a french anti-smoking ad. So the french are also bashed for their super sexual advertising. This is another really creative ad that uses witty idea of forced oral sex to liken it to smoking. They say smoking is like being a slave to tobacco. This ad was actually part of a whole campeign that was on buses and bilboards and such. It was targetting young people between 18-25 and trying to prevent them or stop them from smoking. I think this ia good tactic because everyone knowns how people in that age area hate to be controlled by anything, so throwing this arguement at them is making them think about smoking in a new way.

Ad #31: Sex Sells Ads,

So this beings my section on sex sells ads. I am actually going to do 6 ads on sex because there is just do much controversy on sex selling products and there are so many ads featuring sex.

The caption on this ad reads, "Black Coffee: Clothes you wouldn't dream of taking off," apparently even for sex. Even though this ad is extremely sexually explict I think it is humurous and witty in their use of it. and the fact that they dont show any actual nudity it pretty awesome. This ad is obviously targets at younger adults , probably about 20-35 and people that are interested in fashion. This appeals to both sexes and it also shows off their product because that dress is very pretty!! Overall the shock factor is worth the advertising.

Ad #30: Inconspicuous Ads, Squishland

The only part of this important are the two ads at the top and the adorable blue elephant =) I found this ad in a quarter machine at the same restaunt I got my fortune cookie from. If I have change I walways fet a trinket for my neice. This one is a little blue squishy elephant, that could either be a toy or a pencil topper. On the plastic ball it was in, I found these two little advertisements. I followed the link and came to a website for a little computer game with these cartoon animals. You could also purshace more "squishes" on the website. I guess they are hoping to be the new animal braclets things. I think this ad is really ineffective though. Not only is the ad small so most wont notice it or take time to follow the link but also the only people that really get stuff from quarter machines are little kids like maybe 3-6 years old that dont usually have internet privilages .

Ad #29: Inconspicuous Ads, Fortune Cookie

These are small ads that are placed on strange things. They are ads that will usualyl be ignored because of how inconspicuous they are.

Huge fortune cookie right?! lol Who doesn't love fortune cookies? Everytime you o to a Chinese gfood restraunt you get free fortune cookies. Not only are they really yummy little dessert but they have awesome sayings inside. Apparently the people who write /make fortune cookies made a website. The address on the cookie takes you to a fortune generator that first asks for your email and birthdate name and zip code. This is probably a scam to fill your inbox with spam so its not necessarily a great thing. Also as I said earlier these are inconspicuous ads and very likely not to get noticed at all.

Ad #28: Unique Ads, Cookie Girls

Ok so this ad is unique because it is on a person!! As I was going to Brookshires a dancing cookie caught my eye. A seven year old firl in a life size chocolate chip cookie costume!! She was getting people's attenetion so they would buy girl scout cookkies. It was really working too. Not only did I buy cookies, but one had lots of poeple buying cookies. This is unique becauise most people dont advertising on a person. There is a big problem with this ad though, only the people going into Brookshires will see it, so you have a very limited audience. That may work in their favor though becaus it target people buying food and people that have money.

Ad #27: Unique Ads, Smiling Magic Dance Boy

The only really important part of this is the really awesome drawing at the top in purple!! I was not completely sure of what the sign said and found out later that what it says in my drawing is wrong. But this is what it generally looks like. So I saw this guy standing at the intersection of loop 288 and 35 dancing around and waving this sign like crazy. Firs time I saw this I thought tht epoor guy was a little off, but then I realized he was advertising for this Smiling Magic place. He's not the only one , many pizza places do it too. I thought this was really neat. It obviously gets lots of peopel's attention especially since that intesection isw an extremely busy intersection. Because it is quite unique it sticks in your mind and you are likely to remember it. Sadly, like I said it is hard to see what the sign says and it doesnt really specify what smiling Magic is so if you dont know, it is a dentist office you would have to look it up and most people would not take the time to do that, so they would forget about it. Also some poeple like me might not realize it is an ad and think the poor guy is a little loco.  

Ad #26: Unique Ads, SideWalk Improve

This is the beginning of the theme of Unique Ads, or at least what I think are uncommon ways of advertising. All three are for diffferent services and they all have their good and bad points

This important part of this "ad" is the BIG colored writing in the middle =). When I was walking around on campus I came acrodd this intersting ad in carious places on the sidewalk. It was written in colorful sidewalk chalk and at times would have neat little designs and drawings around it. It was a quite eye  catching, if you are looking down. This is a great way to get to their target audience, which is the students of UNT. Mant of these ads were at the union, the bus stop, which most students have to go by so it is more likely to be seen. It is also cool and colorful, and very rarely done by many people. The issues with this ad is that it is very non-specific, you do not know what kind of improve it is: theatre, comedy, speeches? This ad kind of leaves you hanging, which they might have done on purpose, as a teaser, but it is still slightly irritating. Also since the ad is on the ground it has a high possibility of being ignored or not being seen  at all.  Many people look forward not down when they walk. I have also heard from many student that theyusually ignore these sidewalk ads.