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.
Episode 3 and we’re in the most late 80s of late 80s years: 1987.
What’s more, it’s FA Cup Semi Final weekend. Yet something doesn’t quite seem right. The ad targeting seems off. Why is that?
Setting that aside, it’s the usual curate’s rum bunch. The American military bring joy to extremely select households. Simon Bates and Dennis Waterman face off for the first time since Top of the Pops on 13 Nov, 1980.
Persil prove that some mothers really do ‘ave ‘em. We go down a big steampunk crocodile hole of warring crisp companies. Comfort is nondescript to the point of being meditative. And lastly, like the old trope of being told to think of nothing but a white bear if told not to, we prove that Ferrero Rocher cannot be given any form of reception without gassing on about The Ambassador.
Contains the correct amount of swearing.
You can find the ad break in question here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6q46Dz-v48&list=PLgz-lhXv5NMneIqCYzyCl-LylXrsS1DV6&index=8
Many thanks to Johnny Feen for releasing this clip into the world.
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