{"id":2329,"date":"2008-08-14T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2008\/08\/old_virgin_radi_2\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T22:00:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T22:00:04","slug":"old_virgin_radi_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/old_virgin_radi_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Virgin Radio TV Ads 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a batch more of Virgin Radio ads from the archives – being put up here in advance of the station’s rebrand in the UK.
\nThe first one features Beau the dog as he goes about his day. Realistic typing I think you’ll agree.
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\nI think this compilation of three ads from 2005 is actually one of the best ads Virgin Radio did.
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\nIn 2006 we ran a promotion called the Big Star. Here’s the teaser:
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\nThe reveal can be found on YouTube<\/a>.
\nBack in 2003 Virgin Radio had the strapline “Better Music – More Of It” and here’s an ad from that time.
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\nAnother similar execution can be found here<\/a>.
\nBy the way, there’s one ad that I can’t find anywhere which was used around the launch of FM in 1995 and featured a fat man dancing with the voiceover threatening that if you don’t listen he’ll go nude. If anyone’s got a copy – I’d love to see it.
\nMore still to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a batch more of Virgin Radio ads from the archives – being put up here in advance of the station’s rebrand in the UK. The first one features Beau the dog as he goes about his day. Realistic typing I think you’ll agree. I think this compilation of three ads from 2005 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}