What's your Apple Ad?

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I dont know about you guys, but I feel Apple's ads from Chiat/Day are lackluster. The iPod one is annoying to me, it's painful to watch...So lets awaken our creativity and show ourselves Apple is wasting alot of money on Chiat/Day, lets see your Apple ad!

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  • Reply 1 of 16
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    I'm at work, but believe me...I have about half a gazillion that I'll gladly discuss this evening when I get home.



    Apple's current "marketing" (or, rather, LACK of it) is infuriating...our absolute worst here would mop the floor with Chiat/Day's last 3 or 4 efforts for Apple.
  • Reply 2 of 16
    I'm finishing off something that's due in 25 minutes, but I have lots of ideas too.
  • Reply 3 of 16
    amoryaamorya Posts: 1,103member
    Someone posted on Macnn about an ad that just had (on black screen) the words "Other companies spend their money promoting their products. We spend ours creating them." Then it faded to an apple logo.



    I'd like to extend that to "Total cost of ad: £1500. Including laptop and video camera." Then have some kind of offer on ibooks and dv camcorders.
  • Reply 4 of 16
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member








  • Reply 5 of 16
    kaboomkaboom Posts: 286member
    Gee Sinewave, iTunes only deletes your hard drive at 16x? You must have a slow mac.
  • Reply 6 of 16
    nebrienebrie Posts: 483member
    That seems to be the problem with Chiat/Day, they were really great building up Apple as a brand (as well as Taco bell dog, pets.com puppet, etc.) but not so great when asked to actually sell products (as well as above companies as well; one finally dumped the dog to show food, the other wandered off the sidewalk)
  • Reply 7 of 16
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member
    [quote]Originally posted by kaboom:

    <strong>Gee Sinewave, iTunes only deletes your hard drive at 16x? You must have a slow mac. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    My Hard Drive still has the debug code still in it
  • Reply 8 of 16
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    This is the perfect place for images!



    Those are friggin' hilarious, sinewave, beautiful work.



    <img src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" border="0" alt="[Cheers]" />
  • Reply 9 of 16
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member
    Yeah I made them shortly after each happening



    So your saying some books are good with pictures grover?
  • Reply 10 of 16
    idudeidude Posts: 352member
    I shutter to say it, but I think Apple needs ads like Dell. They may stink, a lot, but they get the idea across and you remember them. I remember the Dell ads more distinctly than any other ad on TV, so when people think of computers, hey think Dell. Apple needs them to think Apple. I just hope they don't use an annoying a$$ hole named Steve!



    P.S. They've gotten better since "Rip. Mix. Burn.", "Middle Seat," AND "Elope." The iPod one sucks though.
  • Reply 11 of 16
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    What do you mean they've gotten better SINCE "Rip, Mix, Burn", "Middle Seat" and "Elope"? That's all there's been! Straight from "Elope" to the iPod spot, which is embarrassing.
  • Reply 12 of 16
    During AI's downtime I periodically popped in at MacNN and while there I found myself laughing over Ballmer's now infamous "MonkeyBoy" shenanigans. I suggested on <a href="http://newforums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=27&t=004300&p=2"; target="_blank">this thread page</a> that a great Apple Ad could come out of this and suggested an idea. An excellent guy saltines17 thought it was a good idea too and said he would put it together if I would do the voiceovers --the result <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/saltines17/FileSharing.html"; target="_blank">you can find here</a>. It is called AppleAd in case you wondered!



    Cool thing is it got a mention one day on As The Apple Turns.
  • Reply 13 of 16
    majormattmajormatt Posts: 1,077member
    I just thought of one.



    The scene opens with a plane flying, the camera zooms out and you see a teenage boy playing fly 2k. The sister walks in demands to have the TiBook, the boy refuses, only to be quelled by his father's command.



    The daughter snatches it and sits on the couch surfing the internet wirelessly. She does alot of stuff showing the UI of OSX off, say, by using Office X....



    The next morning the father, a scientist, uses the TiBook at work to do all these unixy types of things.



    A voice then says "Macintosh, it spans your digital life" well, something like that.



    Now, in this commercial we show how flexible the mac is for play, internet, and serious work. Im sure you guys can do better, this one took me 5 seconds in my head
  • Reply 14 of 16
    Anything is better than the Dell ads with that Steve kid.



    How bout Apple make an ad where that Steve kid is talking about Dell's and somebody runs out and hits him over the head with an iBook?
  • Reply 15 of 16
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member
    Steve is gaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. He is the Eddie Haskel of the century.
  • Reply 16 of 16
    [b]Someone posted on Macnn about an ad that just had (on black screen) the words "Other companies spend their money promoting their products. We spend ours creating them." Then it faded to an apple logo.[b]



    Thats actually a really good idea. I'm going to make it tomorrow in Quicktime Pro. I'll post it as soon as its done.
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