{"id":109,"date":"2005-09-23T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T23:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=109"},"modified":"2014-11-26T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T03:23:38","slug":"50-top-british-tv-spots-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/50-top-british-tv-spots-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Top British TV Spots Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Advertising Producers&#8217; Association has released its annual list of the <em>50 best commercials<\/em>.  See them at <a href=\"http:\/\/ad-rag.com\/124774.php\">AdRants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That fantasy flying diesel from Honda (by Weider &#038; Kennedy UK) looks like a Disneyland dream.  (Personal skepticism: ok, Honda&#8217;s diesel is clean and quiet, but is it fast?)<\/p>\n<p>The Stella d&#8217;Artois spot from Lowe London is a major WWI epic. A &#8220;reassuringly expesive&#8221; spot to produce, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Is that &#8220;big and agile&#8221; gymnast wearing a fat suit? (He&#8217;s selling a &#8220;big and agile&#8221; Skoda SUV.)  You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p>The Return of the Train spot by Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe\/Y &#038; R incorporates scenes from Hitchcock&#8217;s   <strong>North by Northwest<\/strong> to sell a fast, new Virgin Train service. Using a terrific movie to sell a product without a big stretch of &#8220;borrowed interest&#8221; is seldom accomplished. <\/p>\n<p>All in all, these are awfully intriguing commercials and easily worth the 2 Euro membership fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Advertising Producers&#8217; Association has released its annual list of the 50 best commercials. See them at AdRants. That fantasy flying diesel from Honda (by Weider &#038; Kennedy UK) looks like a Disneyland dream. (Personal skepticism: ok, Honda&#8217;s diesel is clean and quiet, but is it fast?) The Stella d&#8217;Artois spot from Lowe London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,2],"tags":[41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}