http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhwhnEe7CjE
Here’s some good news for Apple amid several months of controversy surrounding the Cupertino-company’s marketing efforts: Apples’ 2013 Holiday season television commercial “Misunderstood” has won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for most “outstanding commercial” in 2014. The award was announced on the Emmy’s winners list last night, and the Creative Arts Emmy Awards are presented for “guest performers on television dramas and comedy series, as well as the many talented artists and craftspeople behind the scenes to create television excellence.” The main, televised Emmy Awards ceremony takes place on August 25th…
Apple’s Misunderstood ad features the iPhone 5s, Apple TV, and AirPlay to show how a movie can be filmed, edited, and presented via an iPhone. The Apple ad was nominated alongside advertisements from General Electric, Nike, and Budweiser. Apple’s winning advertisement was produced by longtime advertising and marketing partner Media Arts Lab of TBWA in Los Angeles, California. Over the past few months, Apple has been reducing its reliance on Media Arts Lab and has bolstered its in-house marketing efforts.
Apple’s advertisements and marketing strategies have been criticized over the past year with low ratings and comparisons to Samsung’s viral advertising, but this win shows that Apple’s approach to focusing on a product’s capabilities, along with touching background music, can still make a positive impact on critics. Apple has been expanding its advertising efforts in recent months by seeking new viral and social media marketing experts and hiring former Nike and Burberry social media chief Musa Tariq.
Here are the ads the were nominated (but did not win) the Outstanding Commercial award:
Childlike Imagination from General Electric:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co0qkWRqTdM
A Hero’s Welcome from Budweiser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7L5QByvXOQ
Possibilities from Nike:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RboTJOfRCwI
Puppy Love from Budweiser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQB7QRyF4p4
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The Nike one was pretty dumb IMO. It’s all like, “do this, do that, beat this famous athlete, this tennis legend, but oh Lebron? Nope stop there.” Was it created for the sole purpose of feeding his ego? lol
Like Lebron is the best athlete ever. LOL no where near.
I enjoyed this commercial. It had its critics (as with all things), but I thought it was great.
and well deserved, this is probably the best commercial i have ever seen.
Well deserved! Awesome ad.
Bud’s puppy love is pretty cool too – though not as “sophisticated” as Apple’s I’ll admit.
Great ad, and shamelessly ripped off by this Universal Studios ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ei6N2k9QaI
Amazing commercial. I’m on the verge of crying. Apple reminds us how they changed the world.
Budweiser’s commercials may be great and all, but like every other cigarette ad, I don’t see the correlation between animal love and beer.
Yup, good ads are the difference between a product you remember and something that nobody cares about. The stupid “family singing at the dinner table” stuff needs to go. Better stuff from TBWA is exactly what we need to get behind, not lowest-common-denominator ads where advertisers for some reason, think that we’re all stupid people who can’t get humor or appreciate great stuff when we see it.
This shit is so fucking moving. I cant believe I still get fucking tears watching it. Damn you Phill.
All of us folks up here in the great white north (Edmonton, Canada) are smiling because, even though it wasn’t mentioned anywhere, this commercial was shot here in our quaint older neighborhoods with real snow.