Adland Round Up 2004 - The Ads

Break out the popcorn or holiday cookies and get ready to enjoy some ads. We've rounded up the best, worst and some just plain strange ads. You must be a SuperAdGrunt to be able to view the commercials. All ads that require SuperAdGruntdom have a "+". Enjoy!

Overall Best Commercials

Inspirational. Excellent. Hot-diggity-dog. TV ads that made us jealous we didn't create them and remind us that outstanding work can still be done.

Best Recruitment:
* TBWA recruitment (UK) +

Best Cheese:
* California Cheese - Spritz (USA) +

Best Swears:
* Channel 4 courts controversy with swear ad (UK) +

Best Channel Promo:
* ESPN- Without Sports - Nimrods 1 (USA) +, Nimrods 2 (USA) + and Nimrods 3 (USA) +

Best Holiday:
* Guinness- St. Patricks Day Morning (USA) + and Time (USA) +

Best Shoe:
* Art of Speed - Nike (USA) +
* Nike Speed - Tennis Instructor (USA) +

Best Art:
* Audi A60 - Escher's Roads (UK) +

Best Punishment:
* Chevy- Soap (USA) (from SB2004) +

Best Strangers Meeting:
* Opel - Something in Common (Italy) +

Best Dream:
* Chevy / Chevrolet Corvette - A Boy's Dream (USA) +

Best Rush:
* Toyota Tacoma - Andrenalitis (USA) +

Best Transformation:
* Citroen - Transform (UK) +

Best Retail:
* Value City - Role Reversal (USA)

Best Feminine Hygine:
* Tampax Pearl - Leak (USA) +

Best Fast Food:
* Burger King- I'm Spicy +, Made Out + and BK- Champion (USA) +

Best and Longest Dramatic Pause:
* BK- Copied (USA) +

Best Sniff:
* BK-Sniff (USA) +

Best Mayo:
* BK- Mayo +

Best Fly:
* Bacardi - Fly (USA) +

Best Video Game:
* Sony Playstation 2/PS2- Mountain (UK) +

Best Coffee:
* Starbucks- Glen (USA) +

Best Electronic/Technology:
* HP/Hewlett Packard -Picture Book (USA) +,
Group Photo (USA) +, Photo Opportunity (USA) +

Best Donkey:
* Budweiser - Donkey (USA) (SB2004) +

Best Picnic:
* Guinness - Brilliant - The Glen (USA) +

Best Shirt:
* Budweiser True - Big Shirt (USA) +

Best use of Death:
* Bass - Grim Reaper (USA) +

Best Olympic:
* Puma - Relay Croquet (USA) + and Outdoor Cafe (USA) +

Best Topical:
* Nike