Each episode, Them’s The Breaks takes a random 80s UK TV ad break and see what the ads are trying to do through the lens of modern brand and marketing theory, whether they succeed, what they tell us about the 1980s, and, most importantly, whether, intentionally or otherwise, they can make us laugh. It also looks at the programme the ad breaks feature within and ask, have they targeted this right?
Join your hosts, marketing insights professional Martin, and Jon, a journalist with a career spanning a series of national newspapers, as they look at what was being hawked in the 80s, and how.
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Each episode, Them’s The Breaks takes a random 80s UK TV ad break and see what the ads are trying to do through the lens of modern brand and marketing theory, whether they succeed, what they tell us about the 1980s, and, most importantly, whether, intentionally or otherwise, they can make us laugh. It also looks at the programme the ad breaks feature within and ask, have they targeted this right?
Join your hosts, marketing insights professional Martin, and Jon, a journalist with a career spanning a series of national newspapers, as they look at what was being hawked in the 80s, and how.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Our second episode takes a short hop back to the late 80s. It’s the first Saturday night of 1988, and our New Year’s Resolutions are marked by intellectual aspiration. So we’re settling down to a night of Channel 4. But will the ads be in keeping with this loftiness?
Well, despite watching commercial television, we’re not beyond the reach of Auntie, and she’s gone nuclear. Save & Prosper implore us to erm, invest and, possibly, prosper.
Carlsberg rise to the occasion by rolling out the good stuff. Simpsons of Piccadilly hound us with their shouty sales message. Thomas Cook are cleverer than they seem. Excell Communcations essay a pocket-sized symphony of 80s go-getterdom, and Abbey National reassure us we’re in safe financial hands by injecting some real peril, right at the death.
Contains the correct amount of swearing.
You can find the ad break in question here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lilerSSqR50
Many thanks to VintageLynx for releasing this clip into the world.
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