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McVitie’s celebrates Britain’s love of biscuits in new campaign: mediashotz.co.uk/mcvities-cel... 🍪
McVitie’s celebrates Britain’s love of biscuits in new campaign -
Pladis-owned McVitie’s has brought some of its most iconic brands together for the first time with a multi-million pound campaign.
mediashotz.co.uk
‘Sydney Sweeney, this is what women in sport look like’: female athletes lead backlash against viral advert: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s... via @theguardian.com
‘Sydney Sweeney, this is what women in sport look like’: female athletes lead backlash against viral advert
The actor is facing a backlash from Olympians and other athletes, who have accused her of demeaning and sexualising women’s sports by appearing in a controversial advert for a prediction company
theguardian.com
Hey @historyofads.bsky.social check this out: a faux olde worlde pub on Bold Street #Liverpool complete with fake ghost sign. Here’s your weekend homework: Evocations of the past establish authenticity and credibility. Discuss.
Star Trek celebrates 60 years...here's one of their lesser known missions to help with the privatisation of National Power and Powergen from 1990: www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re... #StarTrek #StarTrek60
1998 Department for Education and Employment reading and literacy campaign: www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re... #InternationalLiteracyDay
Hopefully pupils returning to the classroom today have got their #school outfits ready, as seen in this ad from 1898
This 1985 ad for the Petite 990 typewriter owes a big debt to Dolly Parton and her film '9 to 5': www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re...
Audio Technica Sound Burger (1983); the perfect thing to listen to your records on during #NationalBurgerDay 🍔🎶
@historyofads.bsky.social is on the road from Sept with an exhibition on the teenage consumer. This is one of my favourite quotes, “Between now and the time I’m eighteen I’ve got to ‘do the lot’. ‘ave a good time, I say, before I get called up, blown up or married” 'Picture Post', 8 Apr 1957
Puresport ditches AI-generated product shots for oil paintings: www.creativereview.co.uk/puresport-oi... via Creative Review
Puresport ditches AI-generated product shots for oil paintings
The sports nutrition brand commissioned four hand-painted still lifes to double down on its ‘no-shortcuts’ mindset
creativereview.co.uk
Do you suffer from headaches, rheumatic pains, neuralgia, nerve pain & sleeplessness? You need Yeast-Vite....and an Aunt Mary! Advertisement from The Railway Service Journal, 1947 mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/TSS/...
Fancy a Nobbly Bobbly? Or a Jelly Terror? The eye-popping guide to the greatest ice lolly wrappers ever: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... via @theguardian.com #design #food #marketing #lollies
Fancy a Nobbly Bobbly? Or a Jelly Terror? The eye-popping guide to the greatest ice lolly wrappers ever
From Fonzie to Elvis to the Daleks, from a Mini Milk to a Seaside Saucy to a Freak Out … incredibly rare vintage ice lolly wrappers have now been memorialised in a 96-page, nostalgia-inducing delight
theguardian.com
1978 Birds Eye Fish Fingers Art Director: John Horton Copywriter: Richard Foster Photographer: Graham Ford Agency: Collett Dickenson Pearce #InternationalCatDay 😺
Happy 40th to Samus Aran, here she is in an ad from 1994 for Super Metroid. The original #Metroid was released in 1986, for more on the history of the game click the link: www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a... #gaming #advertising #archives
Raleigh’s new campaign celebrates the simple pleasures of cycling: www.creativereview.co.uk/raleigh-one-... via Creative Review
Raleigh’s new campaign celebrates cycling’s simple pleasures
Created by HarrimanSteel, Reasons to be Cheerful uses humour, authentic casting and everyday moments to reposition the bike brand for a new generation
creativereview.co.uk
Two of Britain's biggest bread brands are now one business – and BrandOpus gave it an identity with no wheat in sight 👀 www.creativeboom.com/news/hovis-a...
We are delighted to announce that Simon Michaelides, Director General of @isbasays.bsky.social, has accepted an invitation to join our Board of Trustees at a time of historic significance for both organisations. Read more here: www.hatads.org.uk/news/245/Sim...
A strikingly simple travel poster from BOAC, (British Overseas Airways Corporation). It is said to date from 1952. The first commercial flights to Tokyo from the UK started in 1948.
Bit of a long shot but we wondered if anyone knows where to find a Kronenbourg 1664 TV commercial from 1998/99 called 'Savoir Faire': www.marketingweek.com/lager-gets-i... We've tried online and our own collections but haven't been able to find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! 🍻
marketingweek.com
Very sad news about Kevin Keegan...here he is in his heyday in a Mitre football ad from 1980
Whatever happening to Country Lover shampoo? With a brand identity like this, what's not to like? c/o '19', August 1974, @historyofads.bsky.social
My (research) focus has shifted from when I created this account. My main focus is now on the phenomenon of the British teenage consumer from the end of the 1950s as I prepare a touring exhibition on behalf of @historyofads.bsky.social Stay tuned...
So sad to read that the legendary Welsh rock and pop singer Bonnie Tyler has passed away. She was best known for her iconic power ballad ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, and recently appeared in a 2023 campaign about lunar eclipses, reprising the iconic 1999 'Full Moon' Jaffa Cakes ad. #advertising
Jaffa Eclipse I Bonnie Tyler x Jaffa Cakes
YouTube video by McVitie's UK
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