Showing posts with label Advertisements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advertisements. Show all posts

Friday, 13 July 2012

No. 203.

Pepsi was originally released as 'Brad's Drink'. This is presumably a reference to its creator, Caleb Bradham.

(Source: QIkipedia Twitter feed. Verified by Wikipedia.)

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

No. 166.

When offered to appear in adverts for McDonalds, Steve Coogan repeatedly pushed up the possible fee to see how much they would offer, despite not actually wanting the job. The highest figure they were willing to pay was two million pounds. Only then did he turn it down.
(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

Saturday, 10 March 2012

No. 78.

There are apparently no advertisements for children's toys on television before 10pm in Greece.

(Source: The Mad Bad Ad Show. Verified by http://www.ppu.org.uk/chidren/advertising_toys_eu.html.)

Friday, 9 March 2012

No. 77.

Madonna dated Nick Cayman, the star of the Levis jeans laundrette advert.

(Source: The Mad Bad Ad Show.)

Thursday, 8 March 2012

No. 76.

Ridley Scott directed the famous Hovis advert in which a young boy trundles up a cobbled hill. Said boy had to go up the slope up and down sixty times.

(Source: The Mad Bad Ad Show.)

Saturday, 25 February 2012

No. 64.

Comedian Jimmy Carr previously worked at the advertising department at Shell.

(Source: Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask.)

Saturday, 14 January 2012

No. 22.

That really is Vernon Kay's mother in the Flora Cuisine cooking oil adverts.

(Source: Multiple Google results. Investigated when somebody wondered aloud whether it was.)