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"First Animal Commercials of 2018"
8 years ago
It's been a while since the last journal where I'd reviewed some new advertisements for television with animal characters in them. Here are a few of the latest ones I saw on the tube, but you can check them out (anytime) in "YouTube", by clicking on each link, following my commentary about them...
6. Geico: I saw three new adverts for the long-running insurance company - the first two of which features 'The Gecko', as he introduces a new mobile app (first, during a conference call, and then, while helping some human neighbors assemble some furniture). The third advert spoofs "March of the Penguins", as one of two wayward birds tries to rely on his GPS (without much success).
"Conference Call" (:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ez8P5j9DO0
"Furniture Assembly" (:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvVGwssklQ
"Penguin Migration" (:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xk4vGDfVMo
5. Wells Fargo: "Suspicious Card" (:30): In this recent spot for the savings bank, a lady's housecat doesn't like to motive behind an erroneous card she had recently received.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnAfB8P53MI
4. America's Best: "Runway" (:30): In promoting the establishment's recent 'Designer Eyeglasses Sale', the owl coaxes one such customer to walk down a runway (like a fashion model), while he plays apropos music from a boombox (which, by the end of the spot, he is seen moving to the hip beat)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ms9AmvL6u0
3. Yellow Tail: "Holiday Mistletoe" (:15): Although I'm a little late for Christmas, I just had to throw in this short ad for the popular table wine - featuring the CGI kangaroo, who (as usual) gets more attention than the human spokesperson for the product.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DJoXBbtIAw
2. TurboTax: "Closet" (1:00): In what appears to be a scene from a horror film, a young woman is hiding in the closet from some sort of predator. As it turns out, the subject of her fears is nothing more that a tiny knitted teddy bear (who knows how to 'bust a move'). What this has to do with filing your income tax is explained by the end of the spot...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-sYvxL6u0
1. Mercedes-Benz: "King of the City Jungle" (1:30): Saving the best for last, again, I offer you this foreign advert from late 2017 - hyping the Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicle, while telling a story about a hard-working business man, in the guise of an anthropomorphic lion (who only gets to unwind during the commuter trip in his vehicle, where he meets his leonine son at home). Very clever spot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQLK6c5vOHM
As always, if I'd made mistakes in any of the above links, just go to the 'Search' space on the "YouTube" home page, and type in the name of the product (or service) and the title of the spot before clicking 'Enter'.
And be sure to return to my 'Journal' again in February, when I will be picking my favorite commercials that will debut during the network broadcast of "Super Bowl LII".
- - - - - - - - - - 6. Geico: I saw three new adverts for the long-running insurance company - the first two of which features 'The Gecko', as he introduces a new mobile app (first, during a conference call, and then, while helping some human neighbors assemble some furniture). The third advert spoofs "March of the Penguins", as one of two wayward birds tries to rely on his GPS (without much success).
"Conference Call" (:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ez8P5j9DO0
"Furniture Assembly" (:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvVGwssklQ
"Penguin Migration" (:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xk4vGDfVMo
5. Wells Fargo: "Suspicious Card" (:30): In this recent spot for the savings bank, a lady's housecat doesn't like to motive behind an erroneous card she had recently received.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnAfB8P53MI
4. America's Best: "Runway" (:30): In promoting the establishment's recent 'Designer Eyeglasses Sale', the owl coaxes one such customer to walk down a runway (like a fashion model), while he plays apropos music from a boombox (which, by the end of the spot, he is seen moving to the hip beat)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ms9AmvL6u0
3. Yellow Tail: "Holiday Mistletoe" (:15): Although I'm a little late for Christmas, I just had to throw in this short ad for the popular table wine - featuring the CGI kangaroo, who (as usual) gets more attention than the human spokesperson for the product.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DJoXBbtIAw
2. TurboTax: "Closet" (1:00): In what appears to be a scene from a horror film, a young woman is hiding in the closet from some sort of predator. As it turns out, the subject of her fears is nothing more that a tiny knitted teddy bear (who knows how to 'bust a move'). What this has to do with filing your income tax is explained by the end of the spot...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-sYvxL6u0
1. Mercedes-Benz: "King of the City Jungle" (1:30): Saving the best for last, again, I offer you this foreign advert from late 2017 - hyping the Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicle, while telling a story about a hard-working business man, in the guise of an anthropomorphic lion (who only gets to unwind during the commuter trip in his vehicle, where he meets his leonine son at home). Very clever spot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQLK6c5vOHM
- - - - - - - - - - As always, if I'd made mistakes in any of the above links, just go to the 'Search' space on the "YouTube" home page, and type in the name of the product (or service) and the title of the spot before clicking 'Enter'.
And be sure to return to my 'Journal' again in February, when I will be picking my favorite commercials that will debut during the network broadcast of "Super Bowl LII".
