Streets Blue Ribbon Ice Cream

Streets Blue Ribbon Ice Cream

On Youtube this is listed as 1988 but it was actually 1983/4 and I don’t think it ran till 1988 because the jingle made a lot of people a tad uncomfortable – you have to remember the times. Just after this campaign, Streets started to create the...
Cottees Cordial

Cottees Cordial

I remember this ad originally failing at ad testing but everyone believed in it so much it went ahead.  So many great campaigns nearly died before they hit the screens – probably still do. This one came out just before the Cottee’s 007 1/2 campaign which...
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

Another of the classic community service campaigns from the early 80’s. An anti-litter movement began in 1969 in Victoria with the formation of “Keep Australia Beautiful”. Its major anti-littering campaigns “Do the right thing” and...
Yellow Pages

Yellow Pages

The Yellow Pages advertising from the early 80’s would have to rate as strategically some of the best – not to mention memorable & enjoyable. The Gogomobile commercial The Fly Songs of Love And one of my favourites – Roboto The “Not Happy...
Disposable videos one step closer

Disposable videos one step closer

Many people were underwhelmed when Esquire ran the first eInk cover last year, so there’s been a degree of scepticism about an issue of Entertainment Weekly in September which will carry an ad with an embedded small video screen for Pepsi & CBS. The...