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Five favourite marketing aliens
As Jim Morrison of The Doors sang, People are strange, when you’re a stranger. And you don’t get stranger than aliens. Here’s my list of top five aliens in British marketing. 1. The Argos Aliens. These aliens are useless boring blue things with spindly necks, and poor dress sense. They spend their time loafing about…
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Argos petrol station ad
The Argos ads are works of some cunning. For only the British could love Argos, which is like shopping reinvented by the civil service. The faffing with smeary catalogues, hobbit ballpoints and forms; the baleful queues eyeing the struggles of temporary seasonal staff with increasing tetchiness… It’s what British Christmases are made of. These ads,…
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