Looking forward to this.
It’s interesting how they managed to show some parts of TVCs for cigarettes.
More from ABC:
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Maybe they have to blur out the brands.
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like they did on rage when they played a New Kids on the Block video where one of the members wore a T-shirt of a well known footwear brand’s logo.
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40 cents?! Same packet today is almost $30. 
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That was 1972 (with a few less taxes)
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There’s enough of a prior precedent from previous ACMA / ABA complaints that resolved in favour of the networks when classic cigarette ads were broadcast.
It’s come up a bunch of times in the last 20 years. I have no doubt someone will still complain anyway.
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Seeing as the British TV thread is locked (why?), I’ll share this here as it’s related to advertising.
ITV showed a different kind of commercial break last night during BGT - a silent ad-break with the intention of getting people talking to each other/mental health awareness. Although an interesting idea, I think people were generally more likely to be talking to each other about what they were seeing on their TV screens than anything else!
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I go to the thread and there is no lock, so you should be able to post there.
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Sorted. Don’t know why I thought it was locked - I think I was confusing the symbols/icons!
Just saw an ad for MAIT Industries. Hilariously, it was animated in 2000s-like Flash/Adobe Animate despite being a recent ad.
I have a clear memory of local ads that used to play in Canberra back in 2015, specially on GEM.
Electrodry, The Plumbing & Electrical Doctor (“Call the doctor, Mum!”), John McGrath (one of the ads I remember started with a globe, and it had the “think cars” slogan at the end (might’ve been a prototype), but can’t find it), Canberra Fleet and Wholesale Centre, the old Canberra Sand And Gravel ad, and many others.
Meanwhile, there are some ads I can’t remember what they were for, for example one with a woman walking in a repetitively-changing background over a female-sung jingle with a female singer until she ends up in a garden.
A Franco Cozzo commercial just aired on Nine Melbourne. Haven’t seen it air for a year or two at least.
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Must be a new shipment, after a long dry spell:
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is there a Grand Sale in footescray?
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I walked past there maybe two months ago and there was that much (furniture) stock you’d bloody hope a grand sale would help get rid of the impending OH&S disaster
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