Huge collection of forgotten 80s Apple ads surface on YouTube

If you’re looking for a way to kill your Sunday afternoon, you might try checking out the YouTube channel EveryAppleAds. The channel, as the name implies, hosts a massive collection of TV commercials for Apple products from the past few decades.

These guys have been steadily posting ads over the last several months. But just within the past week or so, they’ve started adding vintage Apple television spots from the 1980s that you’ve either forgotten about, or more likely, never knew existed…

The commercials, first spotted by MacRumors, feature both the Macintosh and Apple II computers. And most of them appear to be geared toward convincing users that PCs can be very useful, and Apple’s can be used by anyone from kids to executives.

Here’s one of my favorites (watch for the twist at the end):

And here’s one starring a young Andrea Barber, also known as Kimmy Gibbler from Full House:

Apple’s creative advertising, and its ability to market technology to the average consumer is the stuff of legends. And while admittedly, some of these 80s spots didn’t age well, there’s a lot of classics here. I recommend checking them out if you get the chance.

It’s also cool to see how these older commercials compare to Apple’s newer ones. Here’s one of its latest: Designed by Apple in California.

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Check Out Samsung's Strangest Anti-Apple Commercial Video

We all know that there's a long and unfinished war between Samsung and Apple and each one is trying to convince to the other company that it has the best smartphone ever.. Today Samsung is here again with another anti-Apple commercial video but this time it is very strange and wired, and I really mean it...

The short ad begins with a poor, sad, white guy in a nice warm vest sitting on a mountainside in what I presume to be Iceland. He’s tapping and listening to an apple. Not an Apple, mind you, but an actual apple, as in the fruit.

After some confused facial gestures, the man is shown smiling and using a Samsung Galaxy S4 device.

That’s when it gets weird.

Once he starts using the Galaxy S4, the electronica music pumps up the volume, and a bunch of what look like cat-burglars in leather or rubber pants show up, complete with black sweaters, ski masks, and knit gloves. They all dance about, as does the now super cool white guy. It’s compelling and fun, and way more hip than that goofy Surface tablet commercial with all the kick-standing. Check it out.

 Very strange video right ? Then the video ends when the man start to bite Apple... So what do you think ??

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Apple posts new ‘Brilliant’ and ‘Discover’ iPhone adsApple posts new ‘Brilliant’ and ‘Discover’ iPhone ads

 

 

Apple has posted two new iPhone commercials this evening. The first one is entitled ‘Brilliant,’ and the second is ‘Discover,’ and both of them follow the Cupertino company’s recent marketing trend for its iOS devices.

The spots start out with a slew of quickly flashing descriptive words, landing on a final one just before jumping into a quick app demo. And they repeat this a couple of times to an upbeat soundtrack. Check them out…

Here’s Brilliant:

And here’s Discover:

Obviously the big focus here is Apple’s app ecosystem, which features nearly 800,000 titles. Some of the apps shown in the above ads include Cards, Maps, GarageBand, Infinity Blade 2, iPhoto, Starbucks, and Philips Hue.

Apple must be getting positive feedback on this new style of ads, given that it’s already done a few for the iPad and iPad mini. But the flashing words seem kind of chaotic, making you kind of wonder how effective they are.

 

 

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