Crazy Christmas Ads: Back In The Days
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The main objective of any advertising campaign is to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. With the Christmas theme in mind, let’s see what advertising firms in the old days attempted to get people to buy for their love ones…







Today most of these ads would be banned from publishing. How time has changed with respect to advertising from one century to another…what’s next?
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Yes indeed times have changed - for the better? I wonder!
I love that puff chart in the pall mall ad. Man things have changed since back then.
Wow have ads have changed over the years.
What happened to toys and candy. haha
Damn good dear.. and yeah.. as you said Most of these ads would be banned especially :-) children in cigar ads :)
I did a few posts about gift ideas for the holidays; but i guess i missed out on those :)
So strange when you think about how things have changed in such a relatively short time..
Great idea..
Dorothy from grammology
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Advertises can be considered as a mirror concerning the state of the society I guess.
Anyway, happy new year!
Happy New Year 2009 To All
Hahahahahah! Times have changed indeed! Firearms, and even worse, children with firearms! No way!
Then the tobacco ads will definitely be unacceptable today, that much is assured. This is before we start analysing their mesagge!
The evolution of advertising is something that will never cease to amaze, and indeed one has to wonder where this will be in another 100 years from now!
Happy new year and may you post more blogs this 2009.
Happy new year to you; have a great 2009 and I am sure I join all your other readers in wishing for many more of your extremely interesting and often inspiring posts.
Happy New Year everyone!
Nice. Times have indeed changed. One reason I enjoy watching the TV show, Mad Men. It’s able to give us an idea of just how different in some ways, the culture and social mores were, just a few decades ago.
Good themes for the adds
I wondered a lot for an awesome Christmas gift for myself.
This pics are really fantastic… hehehe
Now that is indeed back in the day!!! How things have changed now a days there is not advertising for smokes any more!!!!
I can only say that those were days.They maybe haven’t so much advance technology but they know how to live healthy.
Till
Laughing pics :)hahahh
Man, you reminded me of those days to me. Reminiscent… :)
fantastics pics man:
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