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Marketing can be pretty fun. Coming up with creative ideas and finding ways to present a product to an audience can be incredibly fulfilling for many people, though the art of advertising isn’t nearly as loved as we might think.

After all, we all despise ads. Whenever we open a website, watch a video or a stream, or even turn on the TV, they can get pretty annoying, pretty fast. But some ads catch our eye because they're so iconic, so we pulled a bunch of examples from Instagram to prove that not all ads are evil.

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    #2

    Iconic advertising print campaign by Stabilo highlighting famous women in historical photographs with yellow highlighter.

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    Slapdash1
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    2 hours ago

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    They coloured pieces of pictures ffs

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    #3

    Entertaining and iconic ads showing Reykjavik police anti drunk driving campaign with four vehicles in snow

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    Slapdash1
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    These four cars and the four men are the ONLY options you have there.

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    #5

    Clever Japanese restaurant logo featuring a crane and chopsticks as an example of entertaining ads and design.

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    Heffalump
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    3 hours ago

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    The hand is not using chopsticks to pick up food: the angles say they are depositing it in someone's mouth.

    #7

    FCK empty bucket ad by KFC, an example of iconic ads turning a crisis into creative marketing.

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    Community Member
    5 hours ago

    This was glorious! UK,2018. KFC changed its distribution company from Bidvest Logistics to DHL, and it was a total fùck up with most of their restaurants running out of chicken.

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    #9

    Ikea ad response to Balenciaga, showcasing iconic ads that feel like entertainment.

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    Did I say that out loud?
    Community Member
    4 hours ago

    Anyone buying anything from Balenciaga deserves all the ridicule they get. Fair play to the company though for knowing how to market to stupid rich people.

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    #15

    A white billboard on a subway track reading Come a little closer as an example of entertaining ads.

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    Wraith Girl
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    31 minutes ago

    Jesus!!😳

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    #17

    Entertaining and iconic ads featuring ants walking around a sugar free Chupa Chups lollipop on ground

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    MistBorn
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    Lol 😂

    #18

    Futuristic sunglasses featuring a snake design displayed as entertaining creative advertising.

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    Community Member
    5 hours ago

    As a baldy, I wouldn't wear them, but I know some people would absolutely rock this look.

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    #19

    Classic Citroen car print advertisement showing entertaining and iconic ads from history.

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    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    1 hour ago

    There was à campaign with "Citroën always ahead" as a motto and someone drew à cartoon with a 2CV painstakingly climbing a slope, and à loooong file of cars behind it (here it's forbidden to overtake à car when in an upwards slope).

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    #22

    Absolut Vodka print advertisement depicting two people kissing inside a bottle outline for iconic ads.

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    Slapdash1
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    Yaaay let's market vodka because that's what gay people need. Not only will they be unequal or outright persecuted. Now they can become alcoholics too!

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    #24

    Entertaining ads showing two Loki Season 2 posters with time loop concepts.

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    Slapdash1
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    If the whole season is this guy confusedly running in circles then I'll pass

    #25

    Entertaining and iconic ads displaying KFC print campaign showing various UK fried chicken shop logos

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    Ace
    Community Member
    Premium
    1 hour ago

    I thought, "whole alphabet? No, there's only 25 squares there." Then went through from A to find which letter was missing. I clearly need this second coffee I've just brought back to bed with me.

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    #26

    Iconic ads printed promotion for Everybody Loves Raymond after Seinfeld ended.

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    Wraith Girl
    Community Member
    20 minutes ago

    I love that show

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    #30

    Iconic advertising campaign by Mercedes-Benz showing an X-ray effect on two cows using bright headlights.

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    Becky Samuel
    Community Member
    6 hours ago

    That's not a flex, that's a crime against road safety.

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    #31

    Entertaining and iconic ads showing controversial Sony PlayStation Portable white billboard campaign image

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    Wraith Girl
    Community Member
    17 minutes ago

    Oh hell🤯

    #32

    Entertaining and iconic ads featuring classic vintage Volkswagen car and lunar lander print advertisements

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    General Anaesthesia
    Community Member
    3 hours ago

    NASA's first manned space flight was in 1961 (no orbit, just up and down in a Mercury capsule like Jeff Bezos' ph‍all‍ic compensation). Publishing the ad in 1969, the year of the first manned moon landing, would have been more logical, no?

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    #33

    An iconic McDonald's sundial billboard using sunlight as part of creative advertising.

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    HF
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    then D-Fens in Falling Down could have just looked at what the sun said about available menus and maybe kept his temper. Or fired shots at the sun, if that failed.

    #34

    A humorous law office billboard featured as one of the most iconic ads for an attorney.

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    Community Member
    5 hours ago

    Hey,I mean, if it works for the POTUS?

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    #35

    An anti-smoking ad featuring cigarette butts in mouthwash, an example of entertaining and iconic ads.

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    Community Member
    4 hours ago

    They were right. The typical teenager isn't going to listen to a lecture about their health when they already know they're invincible. Make what they're doing look uncool however....

    #37

    Retro Minipoo dry shampoo print ad showing a before and after transformation as an entertaining ad example

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    Kiki Likes Sweets
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    4 hours ago

    Minipoo? Probably need more fibre in your diet.

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    #41

    Custom furry Nintendogs van promoting a video game as an iconic and entertaining ad stunt.

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    Wraith Girl
    Community Member
    11 minutes ago

    Dumb and dumber..lol

    #42

    Two city billboards showing Knicks basketball players passing a ball to each other, highlighting entertaining ads.

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    Wraith Girl
    Community Member
    11 minutes ago

    That is actually really cool

    #43

    A grid of entertaining and iconic ads including Progressive Flo and the Geico Gecko.

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    Wraith Girl
    Community Member
    1 minute ago

    "What are you wearing, Jake from State Farm?" ---Umm, khakis--... "She sounds hideous!!". .

    #44

    A historic black and white photo of Sig Klein's Fat Men's Shop storefront, an example of iconic ads from New York.

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    Ace
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    Premium
    1 hour ago

    1947. The word "fat" had not yet become the insult we think of it as today.

    #46

    Xbox cloud gaming UI displayed alongside an official logo as an entertaining ad.

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    Slapdash1
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    They reinvented the demo versions of games. Jesus but we are getting stoopider and stoopider

    #48

    Vintage advertisement showing people in swimwear working in a mainframe computer room to highlight air conditioning.

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    HF
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    nowadays, the server room is the least s**y room there is. Where did we go wrong?

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    #55

    Worker installing an HP printer billboard ad live, representing iconic ad concepts and guerilla marketing

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    Community Member
    4 hours ago

    They do actually make decent printers. It's just a shame that they try to fùck you over any way they can, especially with the ink.

    #65

    Tesla futuristic flying car concept showcasing an iconic ad with thruster smoke.

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    Chich the witch
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    4 hours ago

    Well, we know they don't float.

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    #68

    Groom wearing a suit jacket with sponsor logos, showcasing entertaining and iconic ads.

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    Community Member
    4 hours ago

    Meh. Look at all the celebrity weddings in the UK that Hello magazine were involved with.