Bring Back Our Favorite Ads!

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
11/02/2017 at 17:00 • Filed to: ad watch, advertising, ads, youtube, dodge, bosch

Don’t you just hate it when a great ad disappears from public view?

Advertisements are, to a large extent, disposable. You come up with something to grab the eye of a potential customer, and once it starts to grow stale, you replace it with another one to keep attracting attention.

But some ads are too good to throw away. Sometimes they’re entertaining, funny, or just pure art, making us want to watch them over and over again. Sometimes they’re so fantastic that we can’t help but share them with others, regardless of how much we care about the actual product. If your ad goes viral, you’ve done something very right.

There are a couple of adverts that I distinctly recall used to be hosted on official YouTube channels, but have since become unavailable. You can’t share them anymore unless you can find some random YouTuber who has uploaded it to their own channel.

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Case in point: Bosch’s catchy “Don’t Be a Killer Car” video from 2015's “ !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ” campaign. Old embeds of this video in news !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! praising the funny ad, are now dead. Several of these articles date from December of 2015, suggesting the original release date of the ad. But the video is just perfect for Halloween, and that’s when I wanted to share it again.

So instead of embedding the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the only way to share it is to link to somebody else’s upload, and let them rack up the views that Bosch deserves.

And then there’s one of my favorite ads from Dodge. In 2011 they released “The Future of Driving”, starring the new Charger. This ad conveys the soul-sucking boredom of autonomous technology, and boldly claims that Dodge will be “Never Neutral”.

I think that !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , but I’m not sure. You have to watch the ad through another upload:

Why are the official channels setting these ads to private? A corporate change of heart regarding driverless cars? An offended customer who doesn’t want to hear a zombie squirrel puppet make a joke about its nuts? Some weird YouTube algorithm that automatically fetches up older ads for autoplaying when it needs to play newer ones?

C’mon guys, don’t take these ads away. If you have to, upload them to a separate archival channel or something. What have you got to lose?

DISCUSSION (14)

HammerheadFistpunch > Urambo Tauro
11/02/2017 at 17:18

In the event of the first, I suspect there was some group who complained and they were pulled, or there were licensing restrictions that are age based and they expired. In the case of the 2nd I suspect its because FCA is going to have to get into autonomous and the ad would prove to be an embarrassment.

crowmolly > Urambo Tauro
11/02/2017 at 17:22

https://www.ispot.tv/browse

Knock yourself out

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
11/02/2017 at 17:23

Urambo Tauro > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
11/02/2017 at 17:29

Haha, classic! But 240p? That raises another good reason for ad archiving...

Kinja'd!!!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
11/02/2017 at 17:33

oh i know... tbh.. used to be higher quality versions of it available... but theyve gone the way of the dodo apparently (added a couple more in an edit btw.... and for shits and giggles... heres me favourite bumper car commercial)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
11/02/2017 at 17:35

whilst im at it... you might as well have ivanho

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Urambo Tauro
11/02/2017 at 17:42

Consistantly difficult to find the full version of this one, but it always makes me giggle. In the full version they cut back to the green room with the girl screaming “NO IT IS NOT OK!” Classic.