In Ireland we have nostalgic ads

yeah that's perfection

It’s the one with the daughter and the baby and her mammy brings out a photo album and there’s a photo of the mammy taken by a STRANGE MAN and the mammy looks wistful and goes “I was beautiful that day”

The strange man was the priest who was marrying her, of course.

what the fuck

jesus i dont know it but i might get up just to watch it it sounds scorching

the 97 one might be the last gasp of the "classic" era I feel

compare this from 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr4Fwwv8NCg

they obviously felt they couldn't use the letter-writing device anymore, but the weird proto-vlogging conceit doesn't work at all

Yeah I just watched that, it’s as painful as anything.

However, what about this one from 1999?
https://youtu.be/491RQvS5VVw

Worth it entirely for the look she gets from the neighbour.

gyac ur killin me with the hints

deems just pretend you need a piss & go watch these twenty year old tea ads in the toilet or something

posting in my usual fashion wha

anyway my lil brother emigrated actually yesterday so tbh it would probably be too much id break down

they were definitely chafing against the limits of the form with that one

ultimately feels a bit too self-conscious for me

mac eile ag imeacht :(

go to sleep or I’ll be forced to link HI KATE IT’S ME THE GUY FROM THE BAR NO HONESTLY IT IS

xp yeah it’s a bit too Celtic tiger

could have done with some butter

cmere can one not post links direct to image from imgur app anymore this is fucked

I don’t have that & also I too need to go to sleep

nm got it

thread and seeing it on fb prompted me to note what irl irish emigrants could look like in days of yore, heres a fellas aunt and uncle in the 60s posted today on their 54th anniversary

https://i.imgur.com/vqJVZ5C.jpg

Catch bars are back, lads

Walking the dogs yesterday, I told them to "Go, go, go," and then added "with the Glen Abbey Show!"

Luckily there was nobody around to hear me.

Dairy Executive: Ok everyone the public mood on our product seems to be shifting. We need to run a relatable campaign to boost sales and change the conversation.
An actual maniac: I've got an idea pic.twitter.com/lIxFnL2z3C

— Pints Before People (@sonofedge) June 27, 2019

I don't think there's any place for irony on this thread

This is the bad kind of nostalgia

Bank of Ireland (~2005)
"Train tracks are ching ching, bitta cash you know what I mean"
You could say that this ad is of its time.@bankofireland @talktoBOI pic.twitter.com/lG46f5bJWF

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) September 22, 2020

Tayto (c. 2000)
This was part of a series of ads themed around hell and the devil. I think they originally aired a few years earlier in the mid to late 90s with the launch of a new flavour, Worcester Sauce.@MrTaytoIreland pic.twitter.com/7uSHn73zjQ

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) March 28, 2020

I was just thinking that

Is it the time of year, is it this year, but, lads

If ever there was a Christmas to look out for one another, this is the one ❤️ So, we’re delighted to share our Christmas ad which tells the story of how a simple act of homemaking becomes a beautiful act of kindness from one neighbour to another. #WereAllHomemakers pic.twitter.com/f8WCTYfKrQ

— Woodie's (@WoodiesIreland) November 14, 2020

I actually consider myself a homewrecker, thank you very much!

i feel like since the extreme schmaltz christmas ad took off in the uk and since the diaspora began returning this is not such a strong suit for the irish advertising industry any more discuss.

Obviously as mentioned upthread the ESB Going Back ad is alltime. I haven’t been able to watch that one this year as I will no doubt be undignified. Anyway this isn’t a diaspora one like your classic Barrys of old, y/n?

yeah that's what I meant

losing out on usp

Idk as a diaspora... what is the applicable noun...I find the ads like that really moving, because of the sense of community and small gestures being intrinsically more moving to me in that context.

i guess i am more cynical than you!

I have been watching a load of nostalgic ads recently due to the twitter account that collects them, however I keep getting interrupted whenever I try to post them so this is all i have atm

The housing crisis in two ads

Barry's Tea ad - New York (1997)
"Remember John O'Brien?"
Here's another Barry's ad from the late 90s, they were on a good run for sure in this era. Looks to me like John O'Brien might have had more interest in Angie herself than the sister though!@BarrysTeaTweets pic.twitter.com/fqqN0BAIFN

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) March 31, 2020

McDonalds - Apartment (2005)
Developed by TBWA Dublin. Directed by Chris Roche for H2 Films. Part of the Sense/Nonsense campaign, Eurosaver menu was positioned as a humorous solution to some of the overcharging associated with “Rip off Ireland”.@McDonalds@TBWA_Dublin @H2_Films pic.twitter.com/M1cCqEbTV5

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) July 8, 2020

yeah i guess she like runs a hedge fund for a tobacco company or something

hedge fund witch

Tangentially related. I dunno how/if Bluesky links work, but here goes:

https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3keml6eeyua2v

Samantha Mumba’s Body II Body came on Spotify & I wonder what it’s like to only know this song as an inferior cover of Ashes to Ashes and not for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTdI-9V6Jk

irish salt bae ad

Omg

you can almost feel every life-ending internal injury

I’d totally forgotten that awful visceral cronch sound effect too

the airplane crash scene in Society of the Snow hit's even harder than that ad, just more snapping legs and broken necks than I needed at this moment.

the airplane crash scene in Society of the Snow hit's even harder than that ad, just more snapping legs and broken necks than I needed at this moment.

that seat belt ad - holy shit! I can't imagine how they could make the violence that graphic without injuring the actors

I remember as a teenager when the first person learned to drive re-enacting that on the maiden drive in the backseat

Do it do it do it