Ad of the Decade

Following on from Dewi's post about funny commercials, we had a tv show here on Sunday called Ad of the Decade which was a top twenty list of ad's (advertisments, commercials) as voted for by viewers of the tv station that was airing the show, ITV.

The commercial that Dewi likes so much was in the top twenty, but only at number 19. It was one place ahead of the Budweiser whassup commercial, which was one of the few american ones that made the list.

The winning ad was for a company that makes bread, Hovis. It was filmed in Liverpool and depicts a boy buying a loaf of bread, and on the way home he witnesses important scenes of the last 120 years, which is how long the company has been making bread for.

I found a website here that has recreated the list and has links to the ad's, in case you want to see them.

Funniest-Commercial Commercial

It's funny this morning I noticed the commercial we have here for a show about the funniest commercials of the year. But while I have seen many of the previews for the commercials they were going to show, there was ONE commercial clip that I saw and I love that commercial, one of my favorites, yet I have never actually seen it on tv. Do you know why? Probably because it's a commercial made for the UK!! That Cadbury commercial haha. I tried to find the clip but it's not online, the clip of the commercial for the commercials that is. In fact when I first saw that clip I posted it on this blog, thanks to Bloggingbrit =]

Favorite Old Commercial

So I was thinking about this on the way home, while listening to "Freebird" that I really miss seeing the commercial where I really first liked it from. It was a tv ad for Bear Grylls promoting a new season of his show Man vs. Wild here (in the U.S.) on Discovery Channel. I always loved the commercial so I thought I'd post it here so Bloggingbrit can see... Don't worry, he keeps his clothes on!! Haha