Comments on: Strongbow – Total First Pint Refreshment

By: Ad Hater 2.0

Ad Hater 2.0 — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:26:12 +0000

I’m absolutely sick to fucking death of the current Strongbow adverts. If I hear about the sofa delivery men from the M4 corridor, burgular alarm engineers of Buxton or pork pie fillers from Melton Mowbray again, I’m going to go fucking BATSHIT INSANE!!

5 seconds after I write this rant, the fucking advert appears on the TV!

By: mike

mike — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:08:32 +0000

rather smoke weed than drink this piss, atleast with weed i wont puke up or have a hangover but il get a better high fuck alchohol long live weed

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:46:26 +0000

I think it’s the noise they make…….

By: Archer

Archer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:55:35 +0000

This advert really reminds me of something, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:54:27 +0000

I do hope you intend to pay for that advertising space…..

By: Neil Henderson

Neil Henderson — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:59:30 +0000

We did the campaign. Good to see it being talked about. We only ran it for a couple of years and Strongbow sales increased massively as a result. And as Daniel says lots of people were copying it in pubs across the nation. So maybe not everyone found it annoying. We have moved on to the ‘Bowtime Hard Earned’ campaign now – it would be good to hear what people think of that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPfzsV_SXA&feature=related And if you haven’t seen it check out the Strongbow Bankers version of the ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFETK0JQUI&feature=related.

By: Mr A Reaper Esq

Mr A Reaper Esq — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:58:19 +0000

Well bugger me with a large grass cutter….i love all these adverts, if they make you humans drink and smoke more iam happy with that and it means more work for yours truly and when you get payed by the head then its a fine life to be sure….oh yes by the way everyone when the next person takes a swig of his cider make sure you pinch his/her money from their pockets then stick a large knife in there face so that i can pop round and give them the old heave ho….until we meet in the dark…..This has been brought to you by drink Irresponsibly.com…post script have a large one for me….

By: Silky

Silky — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:59:37 +0000

Thanks for the info, Daniel.

By: Daniel Hoffmann-Gill

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:38:39 +0000

Tim Key is his name.

By: Silky

Silky — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:34:09 +0000

Is it your mate? Worth an ask, I’d say.

I’ll have a dig around and see if I can find out for you, Stavros.

By: stavros

stavros — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:38:44 +0000

whos the main actor guy in the advert shown above? hes in another one for some building society too, he looks like my mate

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:27:20 +0000

What I noticed browsing through you tube is that there are loads of clearly underage kids mimicking the advert – thereby promoting underage drinking.

I’m not hugely bothered about this but I doubt Strongbow are really that happy – or maybe they are?

By: Mei

Mei — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:27:04 +0000

I was wondering the same thing coz he really looks like my neighbour!

By: j

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:58:36 +0000

Does anyone know who the black guy in the first strongbow “ahh” advert is?

By: Daniel Hoffmann-Gill

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:21:55 +0000

To be honest, I don’t really drink.

However, people do feel free to ahhhh in my face, drunk or not…

By: Silky

Silky — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:52:58 +0000

Thanks for the insight into the art of acting, Daniel.

Did you find yourself holding the glass and sipping your pint in the same way for a few days afterwards too?

Have you avoided drunken idiots ‘ahhhhing’ at you so far?

By: Daniel Hoffmann-Gill

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:35:35 +0000

It was actually quite a short shoot day and we were all done by 6ish after starting at 8am so not too bad.

It’s not the ‘ahhhhs’ that are the problem, its mastering the correct sip (I jest you not) and also gripping the glass near the bottom!

By: Silky

Silky — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:18:46 +0000

Hey Daniel,

Thanks for the comment. How many takes did it take before saying “ahhhhh” got slightly annoying?

Or did you do it in one

By: Daniel Hoffmann-Gill

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:55:48 +0000

Funnily enough, I’m one of the actors going ‘ahhhhhhhh’ in the new advert, where two blokes are in the trance and the other one does a little routine while he wakes for us to wake up.

It seems to have caught on in the best way, with people able to mimic the action down the pub and in turn, virally spread the brand/concept.

I’d say that’s a good ad but then again, I’m in it.

By: Silky

Silky — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:11:44 +0000

But Beatrice, don’t you some times wish the night would pass by in a gasping blur?