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Apple Inducted Into 'Brand Hall of Fame' for Iconic Ads

iPod Ad Silhouette The One Club for Creativity, a U.S. non-profit organization that promotes excellence in advertising and design, today announced that Apple has been selected as the first brand to be inducted into its newly established "Brand Hall of Fame."

Apple's most famous ads include its iconic "1984" Super Bowl commercial for the original Macintosh, the "Think Different" campaign from the late 1990s, the "iPod silhouette" commercials from the early 2000s, the "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" commercials from the late 2000s, and the "Shot on iPhone" campaign.

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Top Rated Comments

turbineseaplane Avatar
15 hours ago at 07:11 am
The Apple ADs up until about 2010 were indeed hall of fame worthy, the iPod ones in particular.

The recent one where the wife forgot her husbands birthday and quickly asked Siri to whip up a "photo memory" for him?

That one deserves a very different kind of "award".
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vegetassj4 Avatar
15 hours ago at 07:09 am
Mother Nature responds to being snubbed by the Hall



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sjsharksfan12 Avatar
14 hours ago at 07:55 am
The I'm a Mac, I'm a PC ads was legendary. Probably the best ad campaign apple came up with.
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15 hours ago at 07:19 am
Shouldn't the ad agencies be winning the awards?
I thought TBWA/Chiat/Day - MediaLab did their ads?
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Und Eser Avatar
14 hours ago at 08:22 am
Really took off when they started leaving the actual warning out ie: “None of this is true”.

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14 hours ago at 08:09 am
While branding is consistently good there are only a few ads that are truly memorable: "1984" (of course) and "Think Different." I only wish they had original film footage to digitize at high resolution since you will only find TV (512 scan lines) on YouTube.

"Think Different" included an astonishing juxtaposition of historic figures, it was well beyond mere branding.

* Albert Einstein


* Bob Dylan


* Martin Luther King Jr.


* Richard Branson


* John Lennon (with Yoko Ono)


* Buckminster Fuller


* Thomas Edison


* Muhammad Ali


* Ted Turner


* Maria Callas


* Mahatma Gandhi


* Amelia Earhart


* Alfred Hitchcock


* Martha Graham


* Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog)


* Frank Lloyd Wright


* Pablo Picasso
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