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

The Idea (Bassies 2006)

The Creative Brief

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

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

My Life In Advertising -- Part #1

My Life In Advertising -- Part #2

My Life In Advertising -- Part #3

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

Piss Take it to the Next Level -- Part #1

Piss Take it to the Next Level -- Part #2

Piss Take it to the Next Level -- Part #3

Piss Take it to the Next Level -- Part #4

Piss Take it to the Next Level -- Part #5

Piss Take it to the Next Level -- Part #6

Creative Briefs Are Neither

Advertising (Mockumentary)

Alex Bogusky on Creating Great Ideas

Conversation with Lee Clow & Alex Bogusky

Industry Insights: David Droga of Droga5 (talks to Young Lions 2008 about momentum and movement)

Debating Content (storytelling) vs. Context in Advertising (Chuck Porter of CP+B, Nick Law of R/GA, Frank Scherma of @radical.media, and Bob Jeffrey of JWT talk to Young Lions 2008)

HBO Voyeur (by BBDO New York & RSA Films)

Industry Insights: Rick Boyko (Director of the VCU Brandcenter talks about the uprising of a new generation of creatives at Young Lions 2008)

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)

Ad Guy 2002 (by Rodgers Townsend / Christmas 2002)

Ad Guy 2003 (by Rodgers Townsend / Christmas 2003)

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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