Popular Nostalgia

Adverts which we remember from our past. Adverts on TV, in magazines & newspapers, or anywhere else are often the most evocative memories we have! Get nostalgic about them here…

An item of big time nostalgic value: that milk advert. “Milk, yeurgh!” Advertising milk to children must be the stuff of nightmares for any marketer, but somehow those who produced this classic early 90s TV ad hit the mark so well that they entered an entire generation’s psyche. The Advert on Video

Linford Christie, the (only?) Olympic Gold Medal winning British 100 metre sprinter wore some tremendous Puma contact lenses during the 1990s. This was soon stomped on by the authorities as “advertising”, but I admire his moxy to this very day. Whether or not the powers that be banned the use of the lenses, they were […]

It’s 11:30 and you know that hunky builder has gotta get his shirt off. A shameless piece of sexual gratification on the part of Diet Coke. Pictures of female office workers perving on a construction worker led to claims of reverse sexism but, frankly, it’s just the way the cookie crumbles when you’re in an […]

Pretty girl, great jeans and an intergalactic advert with the best soundtrack anyone had ever heard. We all rushed out to buy the CD and were sorely disappointed when, a minute into the track it all slows down and goes goth with some weirdo roaring into the microphone. What a let down. Worse still, no-one […]

“They’re lighter than ordinary chocolate” the ballet dancer says as she floats onto the stage for another fantastic performance. What you don’t know is that her Russian trainer and pushy mum have worked her for an extra 6 hours because of that calorie loaded treat. I think I just liked her accent more than anything. […]