Advertising To The 'YouTube' Generation

For once, I've not written a blog to moan about the ignorance of people or point out the faults in today's society and brand everyone an idiot again - This blog to actually applaud something, in a positive way.

I'm sure most people are aware of the new 118-247 Yell advertising campaign, made by Weebl, with its catchy little tune and its fun, old school animation. You may be aware that it's a copy of Magical Trevor, and he even features in the advert as one of people waiting for the curry, which was there in a hurry.

It's good to start appealing to the 'YouTube' generation, who have a short attention spans because with YouTube being full of 'hilarious' clips which are 10 seconds long, adverts which explain the new science of shampoo, toothpaste, face creams and drinks are not the thrilling things you can watch. Also, the advert appeals to old people, because the catchy tune gets stuck in your head, and therefore, theoretically, old people should be able to remember the six digit number - 118-247.

Weebl have created many 'virals' as they're called which have become quite popular ways for bored people to pass the time with videos such as 'Badger, Badger, Badger' and 'Weebl and Bob.' The adverts on TV and Radio both reflect the success of their random video website, and I hope more adverts emerge soon which go along the same lines.

Below are two videos. The first one is one of the ‘Magical Trevor’ videos, and the other is Yell 118/247 advert. Enjoy.

A nice short blog, with two video’s. Makes a change doesn’t it.
Toodles M’dearys
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Rick Rolling

For those of you that haven’t heard of this new YouTube craze, it’s when idiots name an uploaded video something like ‘Family Guy Leaked Episode’ when it’s something completely different for a laugh.

It got the name because it started when people used Rick Astley video instead. Although now it can be hardly anything. The strangest one I’ve seen so far when a repeated 2 second slip from Fawlty Towers. The most annoying one I’ve seen has this most annoying sound with a picture of a moving tongue.

It is so annoying, it seems everything i click on at the moment is a form of rick rolling. It’s not even a good song. It’s terrible. I think the only way we can stop it is if we tell the general public that every time someone gets rick rolled, a poor little puppy dies. This needs to be preached to stop it from happening. You never know.
The thing is with ‘people’ is the more you tell them not to do it, the more they do it. ARGG. Very annoying.

If you have a suggestion on how we can stop it, leave me a comment.

If, for some reason you want to be rick rolled, here’s a link for you:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yxnWl63Avo4