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40 Charming Vintage Ads That Are Nothing Like Today’s Marketing
A successful advertising campaign is one that catches customers’ attention and includes a memorable slogan or image. But considering the fact that most people consciously see around 100 advertisements every single day, we definitely can’t remember them all. So it’s particularly impressive when a marketing campaign is still going viral decades after it was first published.
We took a trip to Vintage Ads Collections on Instagram and compiled a list of their most fascinating posts below. Some of these images might still be a hit today, while others might get someone fired if they were proposed in a meeting nowadays. But they’re certainly entertaining and wonderful little time capsules! Enjoy scrolling through, and be sure to upvote the ones that you find particularly clever.
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Patsy Robins 8 months ago
I hate chocolate icecream, so I’d be much happier if Neapolitan was like this!
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Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago (edited)
The Solo Kleinmotoren Solo 720: apparently, the first electric moped. Germany, produced from 1973. It wasn't a success. The idea was sound, but at less than half the power of an internal combustion engined moped with a short range and long charging time meant it was never going to sell at all well. Better batteries were needed. We've got them now. Link follows (German Wikipedia - I used machine translation).
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
Put them all together, and it would be almost as big as an English breakfast.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 8 months ago
Hey! It's not that small! Besides it's how you use it that matters!
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 8 months ago (edited)
Looks like a powerful fart. Better out than in!
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Russell Bowman 8 months ago
In Australian tourism ... there is BCD and ACD ... Before Crocodile Dundee and After Crocodile Dundee ... many long for BCD
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Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
There was me thinking one of the great things about the old Honda Civic was that it was small - very useful in European cities, even more so in Japan. Making it bigger always struck me as defeating the point.
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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
If Nestle could find a way to dehydrate water and sell it, they would!
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Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
What the AF is 'Potato Stroganoff'? My mind boggles - and refuses to contemplate what horrors might lurk behind the description "Rice Oriental". 🤣
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Sally Moen 8 months ago (edited)
Why does that bowling ball return look like it's a child's ride in front of the supermarket? The one you put a quarter into to ride for 3 mins?
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Der Kommissar 8 months ago (edited)
Why is American beer like making love in a canoe ? Its farking close to water.
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NoRestfortheQWERTY 8 months ago
I hear this stuff is legal in Amsterdam. Look at that kid's face. It must be the dankest stuff you can drink for breakfast.
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Sally Moen 8 months ago
The first commercially available chemical perfume. Before perfumes were botanical based
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NightOwlPanda 8 months ago
The kid in back looks sad because he spent all his money on a baseball mitt and now can't afford to enjoy a Coke with the gang.
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Sally Moen 8 months ago
If you have one of these, you're taking it to vintage car shows on sunny days and taking good care of it
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Oskar vanZandt 8 months ago
If you're consensually into that kind of thing... otherwise NOT okay.
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Oskar vanZandt 8 months ago
Quite a different approach and effect than the advert directly above...
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NoRestfortheQWERTY 8 months ago
He remembered her after he got demobilized and moved to another state and/or continent, I take it.
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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
Making old salads to new? Does this mean wilted salads with magic dressing squeezed over the them?
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Oskar vanZandt 8 months ago
The racism was strong in several of those ads... I didn't get the point of the collection as an entirety?!?
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
Similarly the depiction of women was pretty bad, but all of those depictions were how everyone was collectively perceived "back in the day" (and still are from some groups, unfortunately) I believe that as far as the point of the collection of ads, it was to show how things were perceived in a previous time period.
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WubiDubi 8 months ago
BP is creating spam by having thumnail and title variants. STAHHPP. We don't like A-B testing.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
They have been doing that for a while. It's frustrating, especially when the title doesn't actually fit with the content and you make a complaint, and by then they've changed it to something else but if you complain before they change it, the people who see the later version will call you crazy for having commented on it. That has happened to me multiple times.
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 8 months ago
The racism was strong in several of those ads... I didn't get the point of the collection as an entirety?!?
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
Similarly the depiction of women was pretty bad, but all of those depictions were how everyone was collectively perceived "back in the day" (and still are from some groups, unfortunately) I believe that as far as the point of the collection of ads, it was to show how things were perceived in a previous time period.
Load More Replies... WubiDubi 8 months ago
BP is creating spam by having thumnail and title variants. STAHHPP. We don't like A-B testing.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
They have been doing that for a while. It's frustrating, especially when the title doesn't actually fit with the content and you make a complaint, and by then they've changed it to something else but if you complain before they change it, the people who see the later version will call you crazy for having commented on it. That has happened to me multiple times.
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