Comments on: TVCs: Business Friendly Bahrain

By: meemz

meemz — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:03:11 +0000

restless, l just dont understand why you dont believe in these bueatiful, amazing smilles, they’re all real, and l would like to say its wonderful ads along with the music, such a nice back ground, amaizing good job;)

By: Nassim Hallab

Nassim Hallab — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:04:05 +0000

Wonderful… Good job saatchi…
And i like the retro style

By: restless

restless — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:39:08 +0000

i still think that most of the smiles are fake and UGLY
for me these ads wont do shit,

By: Creative Rules

Creative Rules — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:49:14 +0000

ShakeMo,

You make some good points and having seen all of your spots I notice you’ve used different pieces of music.

Funnily enough the Diva opera music works the least out of all of them.

There’s two songs with lyrics about smiling that work much better and I would’ve used one of them across all.

However that’s a minor criticism for what is beautifully produced work.

By: mortalthoughts

mortalthoughts — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:46:54 +0000

Simplicity! Works well here.

Nicely done but could have been better treated. Still way better than the typical “we promise the world” crap seen in the region.

Big Question is - Will it (and how) attract the moolah to Bahrain and say not Dubai or Qatar?

By: ShakeMo

ShakeMo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:47:14 +0000

Settle down restless, the same peice of music gets used for many different products etc. If you wanted exclusivity, perhaps your agency should have spent more on music rights and invested in a complete regional buyout? Or, better still, composed something of their own.

It’s like the fact that all the cheesey property ads, car ads, etc that pollute the airwaves of Dubai radio - are VO’d by Barry Kirsh…same voice on all of them..no worries.

Take a strong sedative and have a lie down my friend.

PS: Royal Jordanian Bubble commercial?? Never seen it.

By: Creative Rules

Creative Rules — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:28:01 +0000

I think the simplicity is the power of this and sorry Restless I don’t think the smiles are fake at all.

However what I didn’t like was using the same Diva opera music we used for the Royal Jordanian bubble commercial last year.

M&C would certainly have seen it as it had heavy air time regionally.

Now if we decide to continue with this music we’ll be accused of ripping it off from this campaign.

Not happy M&C.

By: Gibbo

Gibbo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:48:13 +0000

it certainly stands out on TV. well done.

congratulations to the client for choosing not to do a boring investment montage.

By: restless

restless — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:35:34 +0000

i agree the concept is different but the smiles are so fake and ugly !! correct me if i am mistaken

By: Ebrahim

Ebrahim — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:10:03 +0000

I really admire it.