TIVO and PVR yelled at Advertising and warned it to shift from its place on the gurney, as it rapidly approached the bright light gateway to somewhere else. More so now than ever is TV Advertising’s need to get in and out, leave an impression and move on before its audience does. Advertising (*spoiler alert for those who missed the memo*) is already an interruption to just about every unthinking couch potato. So it’s no longer what you do or how you do it, it’s about doing it differently. Miles Young, Global CEO of Ogilvy himself talks about advertising’s need to become seamless in its positioning within content so that it plays the same role of maintaining audience attention – with obviously different consequences.

Why then do we still have ads – *cough* … like some a little further down on this site – that voluntarily elect themselves as all things annoying? Take a leaf from FoxP2 if you will, ya’ll. Here are some examples of 20” memorable moments. Sure, they are not all as good as each other, but these will have you giggling at the conceptualisation that went before production and leave you appreciative of the art therein.

The ads are for Dairy Board and depict a Chicken, Seagull and Tortoise performing feats of strength because they have had a dose of some decent dairy. I think the voice over’s could have been better and a lot more realistic but the visual impact is enough to win you over.

In order of preference:

Chicken

Seagull

Tortoise

Better than Boerizza?