My Most Immortal Ad: Ali Rez and Graham Turner Explore 25 Years of Absolut Advertising

15/07/2020

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15/07/2020

The Immortal Awards juror is joined by the campaign co-creator to discuss its origins, legacy and why it was able to run and run

In the run up to the entry deadline for this year's Immortal Awards, our jurors have been taking it in turns to select the ads and campaigns that are most immortal to them, revealing the reasons why they've stayed with them until this day.

Immortal Awards juror and regional ECD for MENA/Pakistan, Impact BBDO, Ali Rez somehow managed to whittle down the best part of 2000 executions to just one favourite ad from Absolut's long-running print campaign.

Opting for San Francisco, a nod to a city he loves, Ali's choice was really a selection for the whole campaign rather than one single piece.

Co-created by Graham Turner, the campaign was launched by TBWA in 1980 and spawned a quarter of a century's worth of variations, cementing itself in popular culture whilst selling a hell of a lot of vodka along the way.

Ali and Graham joined The Immortal Awards' Paul Monan to explore the campaign's origins, it's legacy and the reasons why it was able to run and run...

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