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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.
Television advertisement (commercials, or "advert" in United Kingdom) are advertisements between television shows. They are usually for products, other television shows or films and normally last 30 seconds in length.
[edit] 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)
