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.
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyNotable Commercial Campaigns I believe.
edited 1st Jan '11 2:41:44 AM by Deboss
Fight smart, not fair.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?
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
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)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.
“I just think that's really shady." "Shady?!" - Stephanie & Chad, The Amazing Race 17Things 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
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
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".
So Notable Figures then for Orangina, at least until Advertisement Campaigns gets its own index then?
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
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
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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Or rather, set of commercials? I'm thinking of a certain commercial that involves CGI Petting-Zoo People regarding a certain orange juice.