My List of Top 10 Print Ads
One aspect of making money that I have not covered so far is advertising. And advertising is such an important element of selling any product or service. If there were no advertising or commercials no one would have any information about what is available in the market and the buyer and the consumer would both be the poorer for it! Let’s take a look today at some of the best ads that I could find and then maybe next time we can take a look at the worst ones around (no dearth of those I’m sure)!
Personally I have more admiration for print ads or still commercials because they are able to convey their message with just one image, and therefore have to be more creative to create the maximum impact. Video ads on the other hand have more time and can use different mediums to get across their message. I surveyed quite a few sites and picked some that I really liked to share here with you. Please click on the thumbnail to view a larger image.
Here are some that I really liked from this site:
Very unique use for a post-it, remember the name of the person you slept with last night!
This UNICEF ad says “Everyone needs a family” and that slightly expectant look on the child’s face is a little heartrending!
I am not sure that I really like to see teeth in an ear but it is effective in the message it tries to convey, “Hungry for music?”
This site had the following interesting ones:
This one simply says “It’s sugar free”. Really simple and really clever!
This one is for Western Union Money Transfer and you immediately get the message that you can send the money from here to there really easily and only one word is used! Brilliant.
This site had lots of intelligent ones; some of them I didn’t quite get but I really liked these:
This WWF one is meant to convey that 15 square kilometer of rain forest disappears every minute. Poor ole Tarzan, probably caught short mid-yell there!
Olivia Women’s magazine is for women with attitude so this one tells you “heaven is full, no need to be nice”. You know what they say, Good girls go to heaven, and bad girls go everywhere!
I found this site from Digg, and is in a language that I do not recognize much less read, but the pictures speak for themselves:
As a rule I do not like AXE ads (loser being chased by gorgeous women, like some silly wet dream), but this one is almost subtle so I did.
This one draws attention to the great inequality in the world and tells you that you have the chance to redress it somewhat.
As far as I can tell, this one is for some diet food: Sharon Stone with a twist!
Hope you enjoyed these, I know I did!
