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An advertisement (or ad for short) is anything that draws good attention towards a product, service or person. Ads appear on television, as well as radio, newspapers, and magazines.
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[change] Types of advertisement
Advertising is done in a lot of different ways. For example: Indoor advertisements and outdoor advertisements.
[change] Television advertisements
Television advertisements (commercials, or "advert" in United Kingdom) are advertisements between television shows. They are usually for products, other television shows or movies and normally last around 30 seconds long.
[change] Internet advertisements
Internet advertisements (also known as a "banner ad" or "popup") are advertisements on a website. They are often still images or flash animations.
The owner of the website will get money when a user clicks on the advertisement. Sometimes they will get a percentage of the money if they buy a product.
[change] Radio advertisements
Radio advertisements are audio advertisements that play between music on a radio station. They normally last 15 seconds in length.
[change] Classic TV ad campaigns include
- 1984 famous commercial by Ridley Scott
- Energizer Bunny (He just keeps going and going)
- McDonalds (Nothing but Net)
- Coca Cola's (If I Could Teach the World to Sing)
- Camel's (Joe Camel)
- The Doublemint Twins (The longest-running campaign in history)
- Wendy's (Where's the beef)
- Six Flags amusement parks (Mr. Six)
- Budweiser (Wusssup)
- Joe Isuzu
- Trix (cereal) (Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!)
- Atari (Alan Alda)
- Jell-O (Bill Cosby)
- Pepsi (Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, and other pop singers)
