10 Powerful Public Awareness Ads About the Environment

When you are trying to get a message across, there are many ways to do so. When it comes to nonprofits, they tend to use a form of advertising that really catches your attention. Some are shocking, some emotive and others just really cool. Some are even controversial, such as this commercial by a British environmental group that had to be pulled due to graphic violence.

However you feel about shock tactics, it can’t be denied that public awareness ads are pretty effective, at least at sticking in your mind. That is their ultimate purpose: to make you remember the message as a first step to making a change.
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Fantastic Bicycle Advertisement – This One Runs on Fat…

I wish I knew where this advertisement for a bike shop was. Or maybe it’s just some kind of outdoor shop? Either way, it’s awesome! “This one runs on fat and saves you money. This one runs on money and makes you fat.”

True, true.

The T-Mobile Train Station Dance Ad

Life's For SharingThis little gem comes courtesy of Elie El Khoury.

At 11 o’clock on Thursday 15 January around 350 people broke into a choreographed dance routine in London’s Liverpool Street Station for the shooting of a new advertising campaign by T-Mobile based on the them Life’s For Sharing.

The event was covered by the Daily Mail in London if you want to read all about it. Also, Nik Rawlinson, the editor of MacUser magazine, happened to catch the prelude.
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The Worst Microsoft Advertisement EVER (Hint: Windows 386)

windows-386-promo-videoLook, any time you’ve got a character in an advertisement named T-Bone it’s an indicator of things to come. But after the first 7 minutes of brutally bad acting and terrible story line the good news is that you are treated to a horrible rap song about Windows 386!

Seriously. If you can sit through this entire 12 minute promotional video without your head exploding I’ll be very impressed. It’s just sooo bad. I only finished it myself as an experiment to make sure I wouldn’t kill any of you by actually exposing you to this crap.
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Guiness’ Incredible Dominos-Style Commercial

Guinness Tipping PointGuinness beer has an ingenious new advertisement that could previously only been seen by those who solved the puzzles on the Guinness website at GuinnessTipping.com!

Well, I suppose some Genius figured out the riddle and then graciously bestowed the location of the new videos on the rest of us. So, grab a beer, kick back, and enjoy.
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Sony Bravia Play Doh Rabbits Commercial

Sony Bravia Play Doh RabbitsThis Sony Bravia TV ad is truly amazing. Especially when you consider what it took to pull it off:

  • 2.5 tonnes of plasticine on set
  • 40 animators
  • 3 weeks
  • 189 2ft bunnies
  • 150 1ft cubes
  • 10ft x 20ft purple wave
  • 30ft giant rabbit.
  • 6 cameras.

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Free Price Protection Monitoring for Online Purchases

Price ProtectrVirtually every retailer now days offers “price match guarantees” and purchase protection after the sale in case you find a lower price within 30 days. But when was the last time you actually kept an eye out on the prices for something after you bought it?

Yeah, that’s what I thought… and the retailers are counting on people making the purchase and never looking back. Well now there is a great little service called Price Protectr that allows you to specify the Web site of the item you purchased as well as the date and price, and it will watch that product for 30 days and notify you via e-mail if it finds a lower price.
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Political Criminals

donkeyelephant.gifFirst, the disclaimer. I am not a member of any political party. When it comes to voting candidates must earn my vote based upon the issues I actually care about.

Now, moving on… There is a very amusing little video working it’s way around the Internet in which a man offers $100 if anyone can name all of the Republicans who are “under criminal investigation or already convicted” in just one breath.

This is a fantastic piece of marketing, although in my opinion it’s almost completely without merit. The video is 59 seconds long, and only 15 names are read, but it leaves you with the general impression that all Republicans are, well… criminals. Here, see for yourself:
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