It's nice to be thought of once in a while. :)

I checked back at the Canadian Concerned Children's Advertisers site and they still have the House Hippo there. They have added something to the Quicktime video for kids that has 'bubbles' appear during the playing of the video. You pause the video, and then click the 'bubble' to learn something about how the film was made. It looked interesting, but I couldn't get it to work properly. Maybe it's because I am not a kid.

I wonder what the best example of a 'House Hippo' is in current advertising? AXE/Lynx perhaps? Some teenage boys spray that stuff on like crazy, and I can't help but think they might believe that awful smelling stuff (my opinion) really works as advertised.

aye, I hear that. Funny when I saw that come on telly here, I thought of you TDD. ;)

The Swedish version is great! :)

I stopped paying attention to the news years ago because I was tired of finding so many 'House Hippos'.

And here it is again, in Swedish - from MediaSmart.se.

...gaaah, I have very slow download times here for ome reason. Grr!



Yeah, I remember the 99 House hippo. So kyoot. razz



I never have much luck with iFilm, that link just keeps reloeading and reloading on me.. It*s the same ad?

You may have already seen the 2005 commercial for Media Smartin the UK featuring the House Hippo. You may not know that this UK commercial is a version taken from a 1999 commercial for Concerned Children's Advertisersin Canada. I am certain both organizations are working together, and nothing was stolen.

Here is the Concerned Children's Advertisers House Hippo commercial(scroll to the bottom of the page)

Here is the Media Smart House Hippo commercial

also, here;