Monday, November 23, 2009

#20 YouTube videos explained

As you can see, I tend to go a bit overboard. We are told to embed 1 video - and I do 4. So now I have to write 4x as much.
Clip 1 is of Jeremy Taylor. I remember this rather vividly, except of course he sang about nigger balls (those sweets that started out black and eventually went down to nothing... and that changed colour as they went) but we know, that like the golliwogs, they are inherently racist, so that had to get changed.
Clip 2: VW then adapted the jingle for their Volksie Bus.
Clip 3: VW people - a lovely ad that doesn't sell anything, but promotes employees in the organisation. The MD of VWSA is in the ad, and apparently people took time off to have their hair done for the advert. Apparently it was a highlight for many VW employees.
Clip 4: This is an Andre de Villiers song that captures the VW feeling - note all the different VWs the family own.
This was such fun and quite simple to do.
I hope my Australian colleagues who are following this blog will enjoy the SA ads!

1 comment:

  1. Adele
    It was interesting to see the VW ads you shared here - good examples of the very similar positioning around the world but localisation of the execution.
    Thanks.
    Irene

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