192 Creative, Smart & Clever Advertisements
Written by Jacob Cass on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 – 9:00 amHere are 192 of the best creative, smart and clever advertising messages that I have found across the web in recent times. They have used some great techniques and ideas in all of these ads and I think they are brilliant!
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By gamermk (1 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
Use only what you need (the park bench one) is in there twice. Cool list, a lot of ideas.
By ferdinand (2 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
this is such a great post. I just wanted to point out that some of the ads are twice in the post: use only what you need - denver water with the bench, tie on the underground as well as the beer cans on the underground.
keep the great work up!
I know I sometimes put a pic up twice whith only a total of 20 so this is more than natural
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By Brian Yerkes (31 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
Wow, what a reeeediculous post Jacob! Very cool to see them all. I’ve only seen about 20 of those prior.
The Samsung / Music / Cell Phone one is probably the most perfect poster you could make. It is everything an ad needs to be.
Cool post, will be back to spend more time on it.
By Bryan Hughes (1 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
Awesome; that was the first time I’ve seen a good third of those. Right into the inspiration folder it goes!
By Katy (3 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
Love looking at ads. Thanks! =)
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By MikeWhoBikes (3 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
Terrific post, Jacob - thanks for sharing!
By drew (3 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
thanks, these are great!
By liam (34 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
When you mentioned this on Twitter 14 hours ago I was expecting great things, and you delivered, nice stuff. Too many favourites to list but really like those first two, very clever!
By Michael Martin (4 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
Brilliant post Jacob! Usually when I bookmark something, it’s incase i “might” go back to it later. This time, I know I’ll be back. Brilliant collection!
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By Ben (1 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
A lot of nice advertisements on here. Definitely shows there are some creative marketing teams worldwide.
You’ve collected a great set of photos, just wish I could see some of the catchy tag lines more clearly, some are a bit hard to read at the current size.
Bens last blog post..Work-In-Progress: Barack Obama Caricature
By Jacob Cass (481 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
GamerMK,
Thanks for the heads up about it being in there twice. There is probably one or two more in there as well.
Ferdinand,
Thanks for the heads up, I will remove the duplicates soon.
Brian,
Hehe yeah there are always ones you have seen before (such as the ever so famous Business Card post) but it is great to see new ones.
Bryan,
Inspiration heaven I’ll say! Pity you can’t read all the tag lines.
Katy, Mike, Drew, Liam, Michael,
Your welcome!
Ben,
Yeah it is a shame the sizes of some are too small, you really lose the message of the ad.
By Zhu (3 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
Yeah, some pics are posted twice… no big deal, really, considering how much effort you put in showcasing the best!
Thanks a lot, these ads are all but boring!
By Alex Charchar (10 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
I have such a love/hate relationship with advertising. On one hand I hate the idea there being so much junk thrown at us throughout the day, trying to sell us things we don’t need or teaching us to be fearful (too fat, too slow, too old, too poor) because of who we are.
.. on the other hand, I loooooove a good idea, and advertising can be the playground of some brilliantly clever ones, which you’ve shown us quite a few of here, thanks Jacob!
some good places to waste a few hours looking at some great ads;
http://adsoftheworld.com/
http://www.bestadsontv.com/main.php
http://www.bestrejectedadvertising.com/html/
http://library.duke.edu/digita.....ss/browse/
and of course, how can an Australian blog mention advertising and there not be a mention of the Gruen Transfer somewhere in the comments? Anyone else been enjoying this show?
By Fox (1 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
WOW,awesome.
These are very beautiful and intelligently.
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By Jacob from JobMob (5 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
I’ve seen a lot of these before but they’re still good and it was fun scrolling for new ones.
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By Sander (4 comments) on Jul 30, 2008 | Reply
Wow, incredible long list full of creative advertising, thanks for compiling.
I just missed the “Adidas: Vertical soccer billboard”, also a fabulous way of advertising.
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By rosanna (1 comments) on Jul 31, 2008 | Reply
It a really cool list!. It’s a good source of inspiration.
By http://delicadosconfiltro.blogspot.com/ (2 comments) on Jul 31, 2008 | Reply
Nice post!
Can someone explain to me the (I believe it says) Groupe ads? Its says something about energy. I can\’t get to read the fine print and I really don\’t get the message.
Loved the sharpie ad! n_n
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By diedfamous (3 comments) on Jul 31, 2008 | Reply
Pretty extensive list! I would have liked it better if I could click them to get bigger versions for the ones I couldn’t quite read….
By Not A Niche (2 comments) on Jul 31, 2008 | Reply
Great list, just three days ago I put a list of 67 creative ads together. You might like them as well. http://afrison.com/creative-fun-ads/694/
Enjoy!
By Yukiko (1 comments) on Jul 31, 2008 | Reply
Wow! very interesting and funny
By the way do you have been in Japan?
There are some Japanese ads.
I live in Japan so, they are very familiar.
Thanks nice post!
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By Marnie Bergan (1 comments) on Jul 31, 2008 | Reply
Fabulous! Don’t even want to know how long it took you to find all of those. Keep ‘em coming.
By Jacob Cass (481 comments) on Jul 31, 2008 | Reply
Your welcome everyone
Yukito, no sorry I have not been to Japan but I would really love to!
Not a niche, thanks for more creative advertising, they were great!
By kristarella (55 comments) on Jul 31, 2008 | Reply
Dang! That’s a lot of ads!
Don’t understand the cow ones, but otherwise very cool. I also like the ones (seen elsewhere) using steaming potholes to advertise coffee shops.
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By jason (3 comments) on Jul 31, 2008 | Reply
those are really great advertise….i love the idea the eurostar….
By Lucinda - Eightyone Design (2 comments) on Aug 1, 2008 | Reply
Wow, what a show of ads! Some of them quite literally made me laugh out loud! It must have taken you ages to compile!
By Not A Niche (2 comments) on Aug 1, 2008 | Reply
Hey Jacob,
glad you liked the list. There are more coming next week.
By Viagra (1 comments) on Aug 2, 2008 | Reply
These are incredible. I love most of them however there are a few i dislike.
Break Glass in case of revolution is great for v for vendetta.
I saw a similar approach when star wars was aired on spike. The sign read break glass in case of sith attack.
BRILLIANT!
By bmx (3 comments) on Aug 3, 2008 | Reply
Super cool!!
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By bmx (3 comments) on Aug 3, 2008 | Reply
realy briliant katalog!
By lucas (1 comments) on Aug 5, 2008 | Reply
What do you think about this: http://www.labber.pl/londyn-sie-zmienia/ ???
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By Jacob Cass (481 comments) on Aug 5, 2008 | Reply
They are great Lucas… the Big Ben didn’t look out of the ordinary for me at the start however I am sure it would have been more obvious if you live in the UK.
By Joey Wit (6 comments) on Aug 11, 2008 | Reply
A pretty inspiring post. The only thing is, most of the ads dont have any obvious product associated with them. Maybe I’m missing something but most of them seem to be a punchline rather than an ad for a specific product.
BTW…where did you find all of these? I find that searching out interesting pictures is harder than interesting information because you cant use google
By Jacob Cass (481 comments) on Aug 12, 2008 | Reply
Every ad has to be advertising something, usually you will look in the bottom right corner of an ad to find out what the product is selling. I used StumbleUpon to find the ads
By Shane (2 comments) on Aug 21, 2008 | Reply
Awesome post!Ive seen most of these ads before but you did include some gems that I haven’t encountered. My favorite ad has to be for Clorets…the message is so clear by use of amazing art direction.
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