Terry O'Reilly
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4,296 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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Over time, Samsonite solved that disconnect by purchasing the American Tourist Company and adopted the guerrilla imagery in all its retail stores.
Advertising Age magazine ranks Gorilla one of the top 100 commercials of the 20th century.
And it is included in the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art.
You can be reminded of great commercials, but some can stick with you for a long time.
If you were watching television in the 1980s, you might remember this classic commercial.
It showed a construction worker in a hard hat putting a single drop of glue on the top of the hat, then, amazingly, sticking the hat to a steel beam.
Amazingly, Krazy Glue could provide up to 1,000 pounds per square inch of bonding strength.
That six-second demonstration, showing a man being held in mid-air with a single drop of Krazy Glue, made the brand famous.
So famous, in fact, that every Krazy Glue package shows the silhouette of the suspended man to this day, 40 years later.
While television is a perfect medium to demonstrate a product, print advertising can do it too.
There is a famous print ad for Volvo.
It was done in the UK, written by David Abbott, one of the best advertising writers there ever was.
His ads were always so compelling.
He simply talked about the product, but he had a knack for making everything so very interesting.
In this print ad for Volvo, he was asked to feature the strength of Volvo's spot welds, that the welds were so strong they would keep the car intact in the event of a collision, keeping the occupant safe.
And furthermore, Volvo said that any one of the welds could hold the entire weight of the 3,000-pound car.
That gave David Abbott an idea.
He wanted to photograph a Volvo being suspended off the floor, held by a single spot weld, and he wanted to put the welder's baby on the floor under the car to prove how much confidence the welder had in Volvo's welding.
Volvo said, Then Abbott suggested the welder himself.
Volvo said, Then Abbott suggested himself.
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