I love using short youtube videos to demonstrate something when I teach certain concepts in advertising or creativity. They are funny, engaging, well thought/filmed, and they get students excited about the topic. I’ve put together a collection of some of the tubes I use in class.

I’d love to keep this post alive – feel free to add your comments and share videos you use to teach advertising.

Before we start, here are a few online resources / tools on the topic. I’ll update this list with more links later (feel free to add your suggestions in the comments section below):

100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers
http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/100-best-youtube-videos-for-teachers/

TeacherTube
http://www.teachertube.com

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A few Good Creative Men (We write ads or people die… spoof of A Few Good Men)

Advertising Women of New York (AWNY) 2004 Awards (by TBWA/Chiat/Day)

The Idea (Bassies 2006)

Advertiser vs Consumer (MSN ad shown at Idea Forum 2007)

The Creative Brief

My Life In Advertising – Part #1

My Life In Advertising – Part #2

My Life In Advertising – Part #3

My Life In Advertising – Part #4

My Life In Advertising – Part #4 (continue)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XESTlJwwwqE

When I Grow Up I Wanna Work in Advertising (By Meyocks Group for the ADDY Awards / Spoof of Monster’s “When I Grow Up” campaign)

Birth of an Idea

The Truth In Advertising and The Real Truth (2000, by Tim Hamilton of Toronto-based Avion Films and writer David Chiavegato of Palmer Jarvis DDB)

The Truth In Advertising II

The Truth In Ad Sales

The Ad Account Life

Creative Briefs Are Neither

Advertising (Mockumentary)

Alex Bogusky on Creating Great Ideas

Conversation with Lee Clow & Alex Bogusky

The Search for Cool (Neil Christie & Tony Davidson of Wieden + Kennedy London interviewed about brands and the search for ‘cool’)

Lee Clow (of TBWA) & Alex Bogusky (of Crispin Porter + Bogusky) – The Art of Storytelling (from Zeitgeist 2008 on art & Science) 

Focus Group – The Wheel (by Draft FCB Hamburg, Return n Ideas)

Focus Group – Fire (by Draft FCB Hamburg, Return n Ideas)

Test Your Awareness: Do The Test (Look Out for Cyclists Campaign by Transport For London / WCRS)

12 Master Ads Formats (Donald Gunn / The Gunn Report)

http://videopia.org/content/view/142/229/

http://www.slate.com/id/2170872/slideshow/2170932/

Seth Godin: Sliced Bread and Other Marketing Delight (from TED 2007, on Being Remarkable / Purple Cow)

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Coming up soon… Using SlideShare, Scribd and SlideBoom to Teach Advertising:

http://www.slideshare.net/mattanium/the-future-of-advertising-313836

http://www.slideshare.net/tbrunelle/whats-the-future-of-advertising

http://www.slideshare.net/gregstuart/intro-to-online-advertising-greg-stuart

We’d love to hear from you. Please add your comments and share videos you use to teach advertising.

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