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NY Times: A Consumer’s Spot for Apple Grows Up

NY Times: A Consumer’s Spot for Apple Grows Up

Here's a homemade Apple ad that's so good, Lee Clow came calling.

Late last week, Mr. Haley’s spot had been viewed 2,131 times on youtube.com. Among the viewers, Apple executives said, were marketing employees at Apple in Cupertino, Calif., who asked staff members on the Apple account at TBWA/Chiat/Day to get in touch with Mr. Haley about producing a professional version of the commercial (which, truth be told, had the same look and feel as many of Apple’s other ads).
“I was sitting on the bus and I got this e-mail on my phone,” Mr. Haley, a native of Warwick, England, said in an interview last week from the University of Leeds, where he is a “fresher,” or first-year student.
The message said, “‘We represent Apple and we’ve seen what you have produced and we’d like a chat with you,’” Mr. Haley recalled
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Here is the final produced version (airing now on TV), a polished professional version based on Nick Haley's original edit.
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