Thursday, June 01, 2006

The world of funny commercials

I love watching funny commercials....i've always felt a sense of respect and admiration for the ppl behind the making of some of the funnier ads...it's a profession that i find really cool..after all it's letting creativity and imagination run loose and wild...and that's something i appreciate in everybody....

over the years, i've had a couple of friends from that field and it's awesome hearing their experiences, about the plethora of ideas that emanate at their workplaces...and the cut-throat competition as to whose ideas are finally accepted....and also that they need to take care of the geographical factors in the sense that their idea might be a hit in the US...but if the ad they're working on is for the Indian market, it just might NOT work...
(at this point I shall mention that most of these points were part of a casual talk session with Ms. Karishma Shetty who gave up her job with a leading ad agency in Mumbai, India to get back to academics for a while)

anyways, thought i'd list a few of ads that i looked at recently and found pretty funny....

1. Honda Element "I pinch"
2. This ad is for some Double A paper company
3. The Blaupunkt commercial!
4. Fedex cavemen
5. Bridgestone

that's it for now...will add more later as i keep getting to them...

And oh...just by the way, Google video and other such sites are a boon to the Internet...but then i guess that deserves a different blog altogether!