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Hmm... is it all right to make an entry about a product's commercial?

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#1: Jan 1st 2011 at 1:40:42 AM

Or rather, set of commercials? I'm thinking of a certain commercial that involves CGI Petting-Zoo People regarding a certain orange juice.

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#2: Jan 1st 2011 at 1:45:01 AM

Sure. It would be about the trope in use, though, not the product. Sounds like you may have an example for one of the Commercials Tropes.

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#3: Jan 1st 2011 at 2:06:51 AM

It's normally given the section "Advertisements" or "Advertising Campaigns".

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#4: Jan 1st 2011 at 2:25:34 AM

Yeah, it's gonna be about Orangina and the tropes found in their ads. Sadly I couldn't find those two via search... what Index should I use?

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#5: Jan 1st 2011 at 2:41:27 AM

Notable Commercial Campaigns I believe.

edited 1st Jan '11 2:41:44 AM by Deboss

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#6: Jan 1st 2011 at 3:47:01 AM

Sadly, that's not an index (I thought it was when I saw Pocky but then it linked to Food Tropes index)... Maybe I should go for that index instead?

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#7: Jan 1st 2011 at 2:38:22 PM

Shouldn't it be an index?

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#8: Jan 1st 2011 at 2:59:09 PM

Can't be an index if there aren't any actual pages, and so far no one seems to have made pages for commercials or advertising campaigns. (Edit: Possible exception being Billy Mays.)

edited 1st Jan '11 3:00:01 PM by TotemicHero

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#9: Jan 1st 2011 at 3:19:13 PM

I made a page for Peggy. I noted him under notable advertising figures on the Commercials Index, but really it's an advertising campaign and he just happens to be the main character in it.

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#10: Jan 1st 2011 at 4:12:34 PM

We need a notable commercial campaigns index.

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#11: Jan 1st 2011 at 7:19:41 PM

Will It Blend would also go on there.

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#12: Jan 1st 2011 at 8:13:58 PM

Things like The Burger King and Burma Shave are currently listed under the Notable Figures section of Commercial Tropes, so I guess they go there?

edited 1st Jan '11 8:15:29 PM by Servbot

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#13: Jan 1st 2011 at 8:18:12 PM

Yep.

And Most Interesting Man in the World and probably Geico, considering how many notable campaigns they've had, although both of them would need full write-ups and trope lists..

edited 1st Jan '11 8:24:14 PM by Madrugada

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#14: Jan 1st 2011 at 8:41:08 PM

The Most Interesting Man In The World does have a page, though the write-up could be expanded a bit. Really, most of the "Notable Figures" from Commercial Tropes would probably fit just as well on an ad campaign index.

edited 1st Jan '11 8:41:35 PM by MetaFour

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#15: Jan 1st 2011 at 9:22:24 PM

Some of them were one-offs, rather than a notable campaign —

  • Apple's "1984"
  • There's a Heineken beer ad that involves a live lobster, a naked woman and a bath full of salty water.
  • Coca Cola
    • The "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" commercial that was so popular that a partially rewritten pop song version was released for radio.
    • The Mean Joe Greene ad that was so popular that a TV Movie was made to expand on it. Also a re-make for the 2009 Super Bowl, featuring Troy Polamalu.
  • Arrow Shirts' classic commercial. The perfect way to smash a stogy image with a joyful, colorful noise Youtube
  • Tootsie Pops: "Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?" At one point, counters were sold so that you could find out.
  • The This is Your Brain on Drugs PSA has been widely parodied in other media. E.g. "And this is your brain with a side of bacon and hash browns." Any questions?
  • Concerned Children's Advertisers, a television monitoring group in Canada, did this with a anti-drug commercial where a man visits his incredibly sick brother in the hospital, set to The Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother." It's basically the most well-known anti-drug advertisement in Canada.

and so on. Right now, the examples are split about sixty-forty (at a rough guess) between "notable campaigns" and "memorable individual ads".

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#17: Jan 1st 2011 at 9:38:52 PM

He already has a very well-done page. But yes, he should be on that index as well.

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#18: Jan 1st 2011 at 9:55:03 PM

So Notable Figures then for Orangina, at least until Advertisement Campaigns gets its own index then?

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#19: Jan 1st 2011 at 9:58:09 PM

I'd say go ahead and make it and we can add it to the Notable campaigns index once it's made.

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#20: Jan 2nd 2011 at 12:45:08 AM

Orangina launches!

I'm still adding tropes though, I just saved just in case something happens.

EDIT: Well, that's the tropes I can think off so far. All it needs now is an index.

edited 2nd Jan '11 2:43:35 AM by Ookamikun

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#21: Jan 2nd 2011 at 9:35:03 AM

I think I've got the indexing squared away. There is a new subindex of Commercials Tropes, Notable Campaigns. It currently has

  • Burma Shave
  • The Burger King
  • Peggy
  • Orangina
  • The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
  • The Most Interesting Man In The World
  • Will It Blend

We probably should get pages on the Geico campaigns (Gecko, Cavemen, Bad news-Good news and "Does X, Y?"), the Capitol One Vikings, the Mastercard "Priceless", and The Snickers "Road Trip" campaigns, as well. Others that might merit pages: the Budweiser Clydesdales and the "Bud Bowl" campaigns, and the Travelocity Roaming Gnome...

edited 2nd Jan '11 9:40:34 AM by Madrugada

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#22: Jan 2nd 2011 at 10:23:42 AM

I'm pretty sure "how many licks" was a campaign. The owl one is most popular, but I remember one with a turtle and there were others as well.

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#23: Jan 2nd 2011 at 10:31:06 AM

The turtle was in the same ad as the Owl. There may have been a campaign, (I don't recall a unified ad campaign at the time, and yes, I was both alive and target demographic for candy) but this is a situation where only one ad is really memorable.

edited 2nd Jan '11 10:35:23 AM by Madrugada

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#24: Jan 2nd 2011 at 10:46:43 AM

Don't Mentos and M&M's have also many ads?

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#25: Jan 2nd 2011 at 11:12:29 AM

"Notable Campaign" doesn't mean "many ads". An ad campaign is a series of ads that are all closely related, by theme and style, plot, and characters. One or two similar ads doesn't make an ad campaign. Lots of ads doesn't make an ad campaign.


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