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If the script for Volkswagen’s “Pink Moon” commercial came across your desk today, would you recognize the brilliance underneath the seemingly mundane plot?
Our “Best Ads Ever” series continues today with BBDO executive creative Matt MacDonald wondering just that, as he explains his fondness for the 1999 spot out of Arnold in Boston.
Lance Acord was the cinematographer on that spot (which was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and was technically titled “Milky Way”), and it turns out MacDonald is an Acord fan—one of his other favorite ads was made by the Park Pictures director (this one through Wieden + Kennedy).
Check out all three of Matt’s picks in the video above, in which he also tells us what outside advertising is inspiring to him these days.
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