The 11 Most Memorable Jingles and Slogans From 1980s TV Ads

You've probably heard them, no matter how old you are

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With websites, mobile technology and streaming services offering new avenues for advertising, television commercials are accounting for an increasingly smaller proportion of brands’ overall ad spend. And smaller budgets mean TV spots often don’t carry the same cachet they once did. Instead of setting the cultural agenda, TV ads now often reference pop culture and memes from other media.

But it wasn’t always that way.

For decades, Americans could communicate with one another through TV commercials. Their catchy jingles and memorable taglines helped form and inform the zeitgeist.

Nothing typified that more

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