By: Ben Robinson, IntoMobile Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Yep, I voted this one number one in my top three ads – but it seems that the popularity of the Ad has exploded on YouTube! Apparently, it has has 5.5mn hits since it was released last month.
The Ad is part of what I would imagine is a series of ‘Life’s for Sharing’ brand statements from T-Mob – and features a slowly growing amount of dancers who were secreted in the station, and grew and grew (pre-arranged) as time went on. Seriously, if you haven’t seen it, you should do! Check it out here.
T-Mobile claimed that the ad is the most viewed sponsored channel of all time in the UK, and 25th in the world. The three-minute advert, which was created by advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, was first aired in full during Big Brother on 16 January and took up the entire commercial break.
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when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has
now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the
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He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently
became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years
when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to
'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make
your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device)
isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question
of why you continue to use it...
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