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6 unusual facts about television advertisement


Ben's Brother

Beginning in September 2007, their song "Stuttering" was featured in a Dentyne Ice commercial in Canada and the U.S..

Dave Shalansky

After moving to New York City after graduation, he became successful in television commercials and continued his acting career by working in the New York and regional theatre circuits.

Lucille Lund

She married Kenneth Higgins, and would continue acting in commercials well into her 50s.

Michael Bindlechner

In 1987 he produced his first film as a director and has since worked on over 250 national and international commercials.

Patricia Belcher

Belcher is one of the most active actors appearing in commercials.

WOTH-CD

According to its website, WBQC was the first television station to be fully automated, as well as the first in Cincinnati to perform "digital spot insertion" and to air Spanish-language commercials.


Belouis Some

The video for the second release "Some People", also directed by Thorgerson, was used as a Swatch television advertisement in the U.S.

Bianca Lawson

Lawson began acting at the age of nine, having appeared in commercials for Barbie and Revlon.

C. S. Lee

He can also be seen as the office worker holding the boombox in the award-winning Nextel commercial, "Nextel Dance Party".

I Like Chinese

In Australia, the song is used in television advertisements by electrical retailer Bing Lee (as "I like Bing Lee").

Johnny Zell

Zell was asked to do a television commercial for U.S. Army recruiting and part of the job was to do an interview for the Welk show and to play trumpet for the band.

Junk Yard Band

The band was often seen performing for tourists on the streets of Washington, D.C. This popularity led to appearances in a 1984 Cavalier Men's Store television advertisement, the 1983 film D.C. Cab and the 1988 film Tougher Than Leather with Run-D.M.C. It was this interaction with Run-D.M.C.'s DJ Run that led to an eventual recording contract with older brother Russell Simmons' Def Jam Recordings.

Lisa Pin-Up

Before becoming a DJ Pin-Up worked as a model, where she appeared in an early 1990s television advertisement for Nescafé, and also appeared on the cover of erotic novels with Geri Halliwell.

Marc Herring

Other pioneering achievements in the arts and advertising include producing the first television commercial created on board the International Space Station, organizing worldwide broadcast coverage of the reentry of the MIR space station and temporarily illuminating vast landscapes with live, digital multimedia projections.

No. 5 the Film

Though visually captivating, the film is essentially an extended television commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume.

Onka's Big Moka

The album reached #4 on the UK charts, and a song from the album, "Dancing in the Moonlight", a cover of the King Harvest song, was featured in a television commercial for supermarket chain Sainsbury's.

Rave On!

In Australia in the early 1990s, the song was also used as comical background music for an Arnott's Shapes commercial.

Russefeiring

For instance, passing through the back seat of a car stopping on a red light (inspired by the television advertisement for the sweet Mentos), earns you a piece of wrapping from the sweet.

Simon Kornblit

Kornblit was responsible for managing such advertising accounts as American Tourister's "The Gorilla with the Suitcase” commercial early in his career.

The Johnston Brothers

By 1956, Johnston had established Johnny Johnston Jingles Ltd., which was responsible for hundreds of advertising jingles in the early years of British commercial television, including "A million housewives every day pick up a can of beans and say - Beanz Meanz Heinz!", "You can be sure of Shell", and the first ever colour TV commercial in Britain, for Birds Eye peas in 1969.

The7stars

The organization develops promotional content and television advertising, along with social media marketing for clients, who have included music labels Cooking Vinyl, EMI Records, and Atlantic Records.

TV track

A TV track is usually a song or a musical sequence used as background music during a scene or visual sequence on television (i.e., commercials or television shows).

Walker Edmiston

Edmiston also did many television commercials and cartoon character voices, such as "Ernie the Keebler Elf" in hundreds of commercials for the cookie products of the Keebler Company, and voices for characters on H.R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos from the studios of Sid and Marty Krofft, as well as a recurring role as Enik the Altrusian on that studio's Land of the Lost.


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Canadian federal election, 2000

The Liberals’ final television advertisement, according to Stephen Clarkson's The Big Red Machine, “emphasized the contrast between the Liberals and the Canadian Alliance while warning voters about PC leader Joe Clark’s claim that he would form a coalition with the Bloc Québécois in a minority government. The ad told Canadians not to take risks with other parties but to choose a strong, proven team.”

Club Social y Deportivo Yupanqui

Yupanqui gained some notoriety in Argentina after a Coca-Cola television advertisement where it was referred to as the club with the least fans in Argentina.

Dartford Crossing

It also appears in the opening credits of the police drama Thief Takers, and in a 2010 television advertisement for Kellogg's Crunchy Nut cereal.

E-Trade

On March 8, 2010, actress Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against E-Trade alleging that a character named "Lindsay" appearing in a television advertisement for the company, described pejoratively as a "milk-aholic", invoked her "'likeness, name, characterization, and personality' without permission, violating her right of privacy".

Fiction Factory

"(Feels Like) Heaven" was used in a 2009 television advertisement for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

G-Police

A television advertisement was created to publicise the game, based around an animated sequence by Peter Chung — creator of Æon Flux.

Hungry Eyes

It has also been featured in a television advertisements for the Irish fast food restaurant abrakebabra and Hungry Jacks in Australia around the early 2000s, and in 2010 for a television advertisement for Tim Hortons in Canada.

I Don't Do Surprises

I Don't Do Surprises was used as part of a television advertisement of Channel Seven's show, Home and Away.

In de gloria

Part of the Boemerang sketch was featured in an Argentinian television advertisement for Quilmes beer, titled Risas (laughs), where Hartman is seen laughing.

Jane Orie

Orie tried to tie Rooney to this unpopular issue, even running a television advertisement depicting the implosion of Three Rivers Stadium.

Jetconnect

In June 2011 the ABC program Hungry Beast produced a parody television advertisement for Qantas, highlighting the use of Jetconnect for its trans-Tasman flights.

Joel Selwood

Since winning the National Australia Bank-sponsored AFL Rising Star Award, Selwood has been involved in several promotions for the bank, in an ambassadorial role and in several television advertisement appearances.

Keep Talking

Written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Polly Samson, it was sung by Gilmour and also features samples of Stephen Hawking's electronic voice, taken from a BT television advertisement.

Lizbeth Benacquisto

Rader accused Benacquisto of committing 105 election law violations in a television advertisement, a claim which Politifact rated as a true statement.

Lorena Forteza

The actor-director Leonardo Pieraccioni had noticed in 1996 in a television advertisement for a line of athletic shoes, sent by a commercial network, immediately after deciding to entrust the role of the dancer, Caterina.

Marc Iliffe

As well as televised strongman competitions, Marc appeared in a television advertisement for rock group Pulp’s Hits album before Christmas 2002 and had been cast in a film called Transfer by GMV Entertainment along with the boxer Richie Woodhall, in which he was due to play a gangster.

Mike Walczewski

In addition, his voice talents can be heard in a television advertisement for Dr Pepper, an episode of Sex and the City, and the 1995 Billy Crystal film Forget Paris.

Nagi Noda

Other works include direction of a television advertisement for Coca-Cola (with music by Jack White), collaboration with Medicom Toy to produce Nagi Noda Be@rbrick, the video for the Scissor Sisters song "She's My Man", and the video for "Hearts On Fire" by Cut Copy, it was the last music video she made.

Patashnik

In 1995, Levi Strauss & Co. was searching for a new angle to add to their television advertisement campaign (which up to that point had never featured electronic music), and they decided to use the uptempo track "Novelty Waves" from Patashnik.

Pluxus

Their 2008 release Transient was used as the backing track to the Europe Ford Fiesta television advertisement.

Port O'Brien

"I Woke Up Today" from the album All We Could Do Was Sing was recently used as the backing music for several Dulux Paints television advertisement in Australia.

Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team

In the 1980s, the team participated prominently in a British television advertisement for Texaco petrol stations.

Russ Swift

Swift's driving skills were memorably put to the test in 1987, when he performed stunts in a crowded parking lot in an Austin Montego for a television advertisement.

Say Yes demonstrations

The "Say Yes" campaign was started with actors Cate Blanchett and Michael Caton appearing in a national television advertisement.

Summertree

Inspired by a television advertisement, Jerry becomes a Big Brother to a black child named Marvis.

Twinings

The company launched a television advertisement in late 2011 which featured an animation of a woman struggling to row a boat in a storm, with the background song "Wherever You Will Go" by Londoner Charlene Soraia.

What I Might Do

The song rose to fame in September 2013 after being featured on a Tesco F&F television advertisement, so far peaking at number seven on the UK Singles Chart.