14 ads that changed the world
14 ads that changed the world
By Drake Baer, Aaron Taube and Richard Feloni, Business Insider (reported by Yahoo.ca Finance), August 21, 2014
The first newspaper ad in America came way back in 1704 when someone was trying to sell a house on Long Island. Since then, the advertising industry has undergone a huge transformation.
Over the years, we have seen dozens of ads that have done much more than just persuade us to buy a product or service. The very best campaigns have affected the way we communicate and interact with one another, from the coffee breaks we enjoy, to the clothes we wear to work, to the videos we share online.
With that in mind, we gathered 14 ads that have shaped our culture.
Click this link to check out the 14 ads, and expand the list with those you think had a great effect on society:
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ads-that-changed-the-world-180746057.html;_ylt=AuTt.KMGhCnRvQnia6fwNkykRptG;_ylu=X3oDMTEzMWxibWJqBG1pdAMEcG9zAzEwBHNlYwNNZWRpYU1vc2FpY0xpc3RMUENB;_ylg=X3oDMTBhdnVpNmo3BGxhbmcDZW4tQ0E-;_ylv=3
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Coca-Cola
Okay Sixpick, what was it?
Sorry Buzz, I wasn't thinking. Let me see if I can find something in print.
I'll just have to tell you at the end of the days programing the National Anthem played with the words fading in and out on the TV. The subliminal messages that were barely visible in between the changing of the words read something like this article describes. There's video in this article as well, but maybe the article will help you to get an idea of what the video showed pictures with the National Anthem playing. Sorry about that. This is the best I can do is give you this link.
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Of course this article is includes a movie trailer and basically the highlighted words appeared in the National Anthem, at least it did in the video. Just thought it would be interesting, but forgot you couldn't see it.
Can't open that link either - never mind.
Both of these are just blanks.
And Coca Cola actually did contain Cocaine at one point:
There's much more HERE
The one that made me think the most was the commercial with the crying Indian. Here is the final view... I had to snapshot it, because it couldn't be imbedded.
Coca Cola killed my best friend. When we shared an apartment during college days he must have been drinking a few bottles of it every day. We would play gin rummy to determine who had to carry the bottles back to the store - even though I didn't drink coke then and since he was a better player I ended up carrying the bottles back most of the time. Later in life he would quaff the 2-litre bottles - I would imagine a couple a day at least. When Coca Cola switched to the "new taste" in the 1980s he went to every store that still had a supply of the original formula and bought up their stock, storing cases upon cases of it, because to him it was no longer the drink he loved. For him it was a banner day when they returned to the classic but he didn't survive it long. He wouldn't drink the diet version. Due to all that sugar (and maybe from carrying all those cases of coke) he died of a heart attack at the age of 48. Because of him I'm really careful about sugar and I've outlived him by about 3 decades.
Could Coca Cola's massive advertising (It's just as bad here) be blamed for his death?
''Keep American Beautiful'' was the motto, with Iron Eyes Cody as the Indian(he wasn't Indian, butItalian)in the commercial.
Ha ha!!! Hollywood used to do that all the time - use Caucasians with makeup for Indian and Chinese roles (Charlie Chan). At least they used Italians for some of the Godfather roles (Pacino, de Niro).