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What has been the most effective ad campaign?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 26/09/2025 12:41

Something that stays with you, or something that you reference all the time?

Mine is Autoglass Repair Autoglass Replace. Literally, the second my windscreen got a crack this week, I knew i'd just contact them.

They're actually just called 'Autoglass' as well, but i still say the full tagine for the fun of it.

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MuggleMe · 26/09/2025 15:52

There's an Australian one about crossing train tracks called dumb ways to die. The song and animation is top class!

purpleleotard2 · 26/09/2025 15:48

clunk click every trip

MNJury · 26/09/2025 15:42

"Got your number!"

coxesorangepippin · 26/09/2025 15:39

Boddingtons one was pretty good

And the gorilla on the guitar for Cadbury

OdeToTheNorthWestWind · 26/09/2025 15:20

I hesitate to say it, but for me it is Clunk Click, every trip. Me and my family have good reason to be thankful for the seatbelt advert campaign.
The reason I'm ambivalent about it, is that the campaign was headed by a certain Jimmy Saville.....

Absentosaur · 26/09/2025 14:29

Diet Coke break ads

Trio Triiio I want a Trio and I want one now

The man from Del Monte, he says YES!

Milky bar kid is on his way / it’s the Milky bar kid!

Just say No! (Zammo)

hobbledyhoy · 26/09/2025 14:24

Um Bongo, Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo

the lion took a passion fruit, a guava and a mango….. 🎶

RememberBeKindWithKaren · 26/09/2025 14:24

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club.
And
Only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate tastes like chocolate never tasted before. Looked so posh and decadent.( But it's probably the scantily dressed women eating them in an errotic style that means they still show up in some men's dreams)

brunettemic · 26/09/2025 14:23

A few that spring to mind - you’ve benn tangoed, the meerkat, milk tray, various Guinness ones (even though I can’t stand the stuff), milk/Accrington Stanley

marchmash · 26/09/2025 14:22

@AllJoyAndNoFun oh god the Nescafe ad was pure and utter genius!

marchmash · 26/09/2025 14:21

not really an ad campaign but the drugs storyline on Grange Hill. Utterly terrified me!

Don't you wish you had a Mitsubishi (every time I see one)

a lot that shamelessly used well known songs, like secret lemonade drinker or 'take good care of your gums, brush with mentadent P', or Coke is It.

My Mate Marmite.

That really annoying song of Wrigley's Spear, Wrigley's spearmint gum, cool fresh taste share it with some one'

Let's not get started on umbongo or he's had his weetabix.

showing my age.

AllJoyAndNoFun · 26/09/2025 14:20

That DD one with the Shaggy Song- in the summertime ( have a drink, have a drive….) , where you think it’s gonna be an ad for a beer or something and then there’s a car crash

From my youth- Um Bongo and The Nescafé couple

TiredAndUseless1493 · 26/09/2025 14:19

Full moon… half moon… total eclipse!

augustusglupe · 26/09/2025 14:18

‘Oh look Joe, he’s waving at us’ 😄

Luckily I’ve never had to ring the Coastguard.

Filofaxforlife · 26/09/2025 14:18

P P P P pick up a penguin!

Filofaxforlife · 26/09/2025 14:17
  1. Levi’s laundrette series of adverts in 1980s or 1990s
  2. 118 118 moustached twins
  3. HIV advert breaking stone 1980s or 1990s
  4. Secret lemonade drinker
  5. shake n vac get the freshness back
so many more in my head…must have watched too much tv as a kid
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mumofoneAloneandwell · 26/09/2025 14:13

Danikm151 · 26/09/2025 14:07

The hedgehogs crossing the roads. I’m 34 and still remember them!

Almost 34 here, same 😄

Long before driving 20mph everywhere was a thing

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 26/09/2025 14:13

MatildaTheCat · 26/09/2025 14:06

@mumofoneAloneandwell I think they have the same name but in their advertising they don’t sing the jingle, just tap out the rhythm.

Come to think of it, ive heard just the jingle

Everyone probably sings the words for them, so effective 😄

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 26/09/2025 14:12

givemushypeasachance · 26/09/2025 14:11

Lots of great jingles from my childhood adverts - "the blue car and the red car had a race..." "if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club...". I feel like chicken tonight!

Omg chicken tonight, chicken tonight!

Havent had chicken tonight in like 20 years but it still comes into my head when i'm in that section of asda

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givemushypeasachance · 26/09/2025 14:11

Lots of great jingles from my childhood adverts - "the blue car and the red car had a race..." "if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club...". I feel like chicken tonight!

Danikm151 · 26/09/2025 14:07

The hedgehogs crossing the roads. I’m 34 and still remember them!

Upstartled · 26/09/2025 14:07

My ds was asking about old adverts the other week and it turns out I remember all the words from the Aquafresh song and the Milky Way, 'Red Car -Blue Car' song.

MatildaTheCat · 26/09/2025 14:06

@mumofoneAloneandwell I think they have the same name but in their advertising they don’t sing the jingle, just tap out the rhythm.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 26/09/2025 14:04

MatildaTheCat · 26/09/2025 13:45

We Buy Any Car Dot Com

so successful that they dropped the words and just used the rhythm in later ads.

What are they called now?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 26/09/2025 14:03

Pomegranatecarnage · 26/09/2025 12:57

There was one that focused in on a sleeping man’s face and a voiceover said “tonight Dave will die in his sleep surrounded by his family”. Then the camera pans out and he’s driving a car with his family-I see it in my mind’s eye time I drive a long journey! And I never drive tired. Same with the kid getting trapped in a fridge, and Dark Water.

Omgg I havent seen it but have chills from your description 😄

All road safety ads are done so well tbh

Stop look and listen, with the hedgehogs for me though

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