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kleinbl00  ·  2975 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I got my car ads back from the frame shop

So the DeSoto ad is probably Ross Roy. They were a Detroit shop that mostly did cars.

The Chrysler, you'll be interested to know, is a BBDO. They're kind of legendary. Mad Men is effectively based on BBDO.

The Ford ads are probably Kenyon & Eckhart. They no longer exist, having been long since folded into Bozell, the firm that brought you "Pork: the other white meat" and "Got Milk?"

I've been meaning to read this book. David Ogilvy got his start at Gallup, then worked for MI5 during the war, then started Ogilvy and Mather, pretty much the advertising firm to end all firms. Here's the thing:

    “The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”

-Banksy

Let's be honest - it takes a genius to make you think you want a DeSoto fuckin' 60 years into the future. THAT is the power of advertising. The people I know in advertising are all painfully creative... but if you want to make money, you need to shill. So shill they do. Sorta changes your perspective on the Superbowl, doesn't it?

It's pretty much the biggest art show in the world.





user-inactivated  ·  2975 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My favorite fact about the first "Got Milk?" ad is that it was made by..... Michael Bay

kleinbl00  ·  2975 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's so rad. At the time he was part of this ridiculous super-boutique with a bunch of top names in it. They went bankrupt and screwed a whole bunch of below-the-line folx. And now, Tony Scott presents: Peter Murphy.

user-inactivated  ·  2975 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shit. That's some cool additional info. Thanks!