Half of your time spent watching TV is taken up by either watching adverts or avoiding them. So here are five of the best ads from 2011 that had us glued to the telly just to see them.
PS3 – ‘Michael’
For PS3’s newest marketing ploy they went for the catchy strap line of ‘Long Live Play’ and featured a volley of hit characters from various PlayStation games. In the ad dubbed ‘Michael’ we see the likes of Snake from Metal Gear Solid and Ghost from Call of Duty Modern Warfare all chilling out in a bar after a long day at the office – their offices being virtual killing grounds of course.
It’s a fantastic ad both in theory and in execution and will certainly have any gamer hitting the replay button.
Duck Tape – Tron
We’re generally not fans of movie franchises branching out into mainstream products (by that we mean the Star Wars and the Currys ads) but Duck made a gem with their Tron advert.
Duck use their tape brilliantly in the stop motion ad, which looks as though it could have been made on a cheap budget but to great effect. Even the nerdy guy at the end who throws the Tron disk at his mother/sister (definitely not his missus) makes us laugh.
Nandos – Last Dictator Standing
Now, the people depicted in the ad are horrible men who have done horrible things to many people. But still, it’s one of the funniest adverts made in 2011. Nandos are clearly taking the p*** out of the like of Col. Gaddafi, Sadam Hussain and Robert Mugabe, so it’s okay to laugh at it.
The characters actions and the backing music are timed absolutely perfectly and if truth be told it’s thanks to these two factors that the ad works so well.
It also helps that Nandos is ridiculously tasty.
Kronenbourg 1664 – Madness ‘Baggy Trousers’
Last year Kronenbourg 1664 treated us to one of the greatest toe-tapping adverts to come out in the last decade or so in the from of Motorhead’s ‘Ace of Spades’, but just a little slower than we’re use to.
This time around it’s the turn of Madness to have their song ‘Baggy Trousers’ slowed down a bit. And, we have to say, it’s a beauty. If you don’t find yourself tapping your toes then there may be something wrong.
Club Orange – ‘Club Orange Factory’
This advert caused a lot of controversy on Irish shores, mostly with women (we wonder why?) but with some men too. However, for what it’s worth, the Club Orange ad is actually quite good. Obviously, a lot of work went into making the sets and finding around twenty model/actresses who are each as good looking as the last, so we have to give them credit there.
Plus, what red-blooded male wouldn’t want to see all those juicy bits. The ones in the bottles of course.
