The 100 Best TV Commercials: And Why They Worked
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Book Overview
Who cares about commercials? All of us, that's who. The television commercial has become a part of the American narrative, as important a signifier of our times as a great work of literature or a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812929950
ISBN13:9780812929959
Release Date:June 1999
Publisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Length:272 Pages
Weight:2.16 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 8.3" x 10.3"
Customer Reviews
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An entertaining, nostalgic an educational fun read.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
With the hundreds of thousands of commercials we see over the years, it's illuminating to be able to have someone separate the chaff from the wheat. Here we have the 100 best of all time. Just about all of them have entered the popular culture. It's fun reading and remembering how they sold their products and services and how much more emotional and impactful commercials used to be.
indispensable for some; fascinating for others
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is an indispensable guide to what makes advertising work for anyone interested in advertising; and interesting for anyone who didn't think he/she was. Best of all, in a witty way, Kanner explains what the advertising had to do and whether it did it! A classic...
A Good Reference and Primer for Marketers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Kanner, an author and advertising columnist, has compiled this nice compendium of top television advertisements, and separated them into their "sell types", such as comparison ads, comic ads, product sample ads, etc. It is a good reference and primer for anyone interested in starting out in the ad biz. Included in the book are such memorable ads as American Tourister's suitcase with the gorilla ad, Memorex's "Live or Memorex" ad, and the classic Timex "Takes a Licking but Keeps on Ticking." To Kanner's credit, she includes some interesting analyses about each ad's results. When I saw her page for Coke's "Mean Joe Green" ad, I thought, "Ah hah, have I caught her in a gaphe? Although memorable the client actually thought that commercial was failure." But Kanner mentions that Coca Cola actually wented to use Roger Staubach, and that they replaced the ad after they saw it didn't work well. That thoroughness confirms that this book is a book reference.
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