Why Are TV Ads From Other Countries So Often Better Than Ours?

By Wednesday August 3, 2011





40 Comments
  1. The0ne says:
    8/3/2011 at 12:08 pm

    Thanks, was a great video.

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  2. xjonx says:
    8/3/2011 at 12:14 pm

    You call that better?! That seem as lame and self serving as all the ads we have here, especially around election time.

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  3. pedro says:
    8/3/2011 at 12:16 pm

    #19 You obviously haven’t seen the German Strip-Tease infomercials to sell stuff.

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  4. foobar says:
    8/3/2011 at 1:24 pm

    Ads are an deeply insightful view into a culture. When they’re not boring as shit.

    Ad man Terry O’Reilly’s Age of Persuasion radio show and podcast is always terrific.

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  5. The0ne says:
    8/3/2011 at 1:28 pm

    For anyone that cares and doesn’t have any conspiracy issues there’s a good drama movie along the same line as this clip. The movie is called Hear Me and it’s in Chinese. It’s a good movie if you’re up for tearing up more :)

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  6. MarcPelletier says:
    8/3/2011 at 1:36 pm

    were they selling mute dads? Not sure what the product was.

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  7. Thoren says:
    8/3/2011 at 2:12 pm

    She’s lived with her deaf mute father her whole life and made absolutely no effort to learn how to sign? Good daughter.

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  8. deowll says:
    8/3/2011 at 4:56 pm

    This is as good as the dirt devil commercial though in a different flavor. I think the dirt devil ad may be better at getting you to remember the company name because the name does tie in to the add.

    I’m assuming this one is weaker on selling the product because the name doesn’t seem to tie in with the video. I don’t speak the lingo so maybe there is a pun or something in there.

    Two weaknesses: 1. I’m not sure it sells the product. 2. I liked it the first time but I don’t want to see it three times a day for a month. The fact that viewers quickly get to dislike a video like this would seem like a good reason not to make them.

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  9. Derek says:
    8/3/2011 at 7:42 pm

    Ummmmmm, I guess I’m a cold apathetic bastard, but that video was complete crap. That girl had a wonderful and caring father and she killed herself for it. That video just pissed me off. If that girl killed herself because she had a deaf mute dad, she did the world a service. That man deserved a better child than that selfish and self centered brat. There are millions of orphaned children around the would that would give anything for a father like that.

    Ok, enough venting. I’m glad we don’t have pretentious commercials like that.

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  10. Animby says:
    8/3/2011 at 7:52 pm

    # 8 bobbo, “the country being run by the military after a series of coups.” Not exactly true, Robertissimo. The military has not been running the country for a couple of years. Not saying they won’t be again, though. So, what happens mow that democracy is reinstated? In the elections last month the people elected the sister (and presumed puppet) of the man the military deposed.

    “His spidy sense must be pretty good” I wondered at that myself. I even rewatched that part to see if there was some other clue to the fall. But, nope. Thump and he turns to look at the source of the noise! They apparently did not cast the role from real deaf actors.

    # 17 spsffan said, “First of all, we only get to see the very, very best of foreign commercials.”

    Exactly. I live in Thailand, even speak some of the lingo, so I occasionally watch the local TV. There are two things that are difficult to do: find something on Thai TV worth watching and, trying to get through the commercial breaks. The commercials tend to the horribly frenetic.

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  11. Phydeau says:
    8/3/2011 at 8:00 pm

    #12 Thx pedro. It was better today. Thank goodness for small miracles. You never know with teens! :)

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  12. J.Random Hacker says:
    8/3/2011 at 10:04 pm

    DOH! Perhaps because we only see “the best of the best” here.

    Why do you find things in the last place you thought they’d be? Because you stop looking after you find them.

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  13. Uncle Dave says:
    8/4/2011 at 1:07 am

    Some of you are complaining that it doesn’t seem like it’s selling the product and other complaints. Don’t forget, this was not made for American audiences. It was made for an entirely different culture than ours that has different sensibilities. For the Thais, it may sell the product perfectly.

    And as for Faxon, #16, are there really that many people who don’t have a DVR so they can skip watching the ads? I read a statistic recently that the number of DVR owning people had skyrocketed in recent years.

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  14. Animby says:
    8/4/2011 at 10:45 am

    Unca Dave?!?!?!
    If you don’t watch the commercials, then you’re stealing the programming!
    I just know you’re not a pirate. But I think I’m gonna call them Hollywood lawyers. Might be a bounty…

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  15. norm says:
    8/4/2011 at 10:46 am

    ARE YOU KIDDING!?!?

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=lsC3ni7A88M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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  16. Peppeddu says:
    8/4/2011 at 10:46 am

    I ain’t an Apple fan, but one of their ad still inspires me today.
    I still watch it every once in a while.
    Perhaps the best they’ve ever made to date.

    Think Different
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=dX9GTUMh490

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  17. zorkor says:
    8/4/2011 at 4:26 pm

    What an amazing ad. Thanks for sharing. brought me to tears.

    Yes, no good ad comes from the Good ol’ USA. Which is a shame.

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  18. Yankinwaoz says:
    8/4/2011 at 7:36 pm

    I think because we a nation of prudes.

    Having lived in Australia a number of years. I have to say that for a small nation of only 20 million people, they know how to make world class ads. They seem to do a lot more, and get better results, than all the US “geniuses” of Madison Ave.

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  19. Animby says:
    8/5/2011 at 4:11 am

    # 38 Yankinwaoz – ‘Australia … they know how to make world class ads.’

    Now, if they could just learn to make interesting programming.

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  20. Robin Springer says:
    11/28/2011 at 4:46 am

    Still wiping tears from my face :) My Daddy was the best in the world, too. Blessings & Happy Holidays to all everywhere-

    Robin in San Francisco, CA USA

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