Some kind chap called Ben Darke found my first ad!
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http://youtu.be/I-zo12V81oU
(Scrub to 3:08)
I confess to feeling a little uncomfortable watching that; after all, it’s a bit shit.
Then again, it was a different time, and my first ad.
As I played it my wife quoted all the words, while I muttered ‘what was I thinking?’
Anyway, enjoy, and if you watch it you have to put up a link to your own first ad, otherwise your children will die in agony (I don’t make up the rules).
I remember my brother and I imitating that ad at the kitchen table. Very good
Do you ever wonder that you have squandered your talent Ben? All that early promise, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJG5DyKl-s
Out of fear, here is my first ad. Fuckhammers. It is pure gold…
That’s all right. There’s an idea and everything.
I’m waiting for the person team who really knocked it out of the park on ad.
The girl was a vegetarian. She only mentioned it as we were about to turnover. There was a bucket next to her. And yes, it was gross.
Was it shot by Glazer?
Ben – they could remake that now and it would win awards.
Very le good. What’s wrong with it?
I’ll try to dig out my first telly ad – a confusathon for Sky Sports.
That brought back memories of sitting in front of the television as a teenager, and wondering how exactly the former deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester Police got to be a brand spokesman.
The toyota ad at the end is funny
John West salmon. 10 second packshot. Red salmon sat on a green lettuce leaf.
Available technology meant salmon could be graded red but the lettuce was anaemic yellow. Or the lettuce was a gorgeous green but the salmon looked pale pink and rancid.
Nobody could ever fix the problem.
And they tried. Oh they really, really tried.
I don’t think you were born when I did my first ad Ben:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6O9j5RsUA
That dolphin credit card is brilliant. Borderline parody.
Ah, so Dave started with a cracker.
…my first was Quosh ‘Luncheon Vultures’ directed by Oscar Grillo. Second was Crosse & Blackwell ‘Saucy Spuds’ by Dick McNeil and Third was Cadbury’s creme eggs ‘Turbo’ by Barry Myers.
All shot in the early 80’s. I’m offering a FREE tin of Saucy Spuds to anyone who can locate them for me.
The “Saucy Spuds” advert has now been put on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLPLIFjvyBU
I emailed my friend Sue Upton with the link, and a downloaded copy to put on her iPad. She replied, “I was delighted to see the saucy spuds advert, it was good fun to do, the company loved the advert but the cans of spuds did not go down too good, although I tried them , they were very nice […]” and added, “there were some lovely posters and pics of me to accompany this.”
If you happen to have any of the “posters and pics” Sue mentions, please let me know – I’d be happy to put scans of them on her official website!
this was mine. expensive slapstick nonsense. still amazed that nobody ever questioned why this girl was necking beer on her own and the train hadn’t even left the station. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYRZYeI7IpE
Haha! They spent $1m on Vinny’s first ad.
yeah. It cost $800K in 1995. I couldn’t believe it. Two all-night shoots at a railway museum in Sacramento. it took foreeeeever to reverse that steam train back to the station for every take.
I like your ad, Ben. Although kids with adult voices creeps my out like hell, it works.
This is my first:
https://vimeo.com/2370300
Another one that looks quite pricey.
But good.
Ben, I’d guess that most the readers of your blog are yet to make their first TV ad.
Yours made me laugh Vinny. Especially the end with him trying to catch up to the train.
@Anon20: Hmmm… I’d never thought of that.
Thanks steakandcheese. they let me ride on that thing and i thought it could be a quick ending.