When it comes to winning around horsey people with an advert — we’re not a hard audience to crack. Wangle an equine in there somewhere, anywhere (yes, even a donkey will do…) and we’re putty in your hands.
So you can imagine our excitement when it was announced last month that the iconic black horse wastaking centre stage once more for Lloyds Bank’s latest advertising campaign?
To celebrate, we’ve picked some of our favourite horsey adverts that we can watch again and again and again… Who needs TV when you have these?
Top TV adverts with horses
1. Lloyds Bank
What better way to celebrate Lloyds Bank’s 250th anniversary than by bringing back the iconic black horse? The advert — called “horse story” — takes the viewer on a journey through history, showing how horses have been used in everyday life from 1765 to today, all set to some suitably atmospheric music.
2. Three mobile
It will be difficult to ever trump mobile phone company Three’s #DancePonyDance campaign. Socks, the moonwalking Shetland, became an internet sensation being viewed by 300,000 people in less than 24 hours. We always knew Shetlands had it in them…
3. Budweiser Super Bowl
By orchestrating a Clydesdale and a puppy to be best friends, it’s difficult to go wrong — which makes the release of Budweiser’s Super Bowl advert an annual highlight.
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4. Stella Artois
With Stella Artois set to sponsor the Argentine Open tournament in Palermo, Buenos Aires, later this year (14 November-5 December 2015), making argentine polo trainer Carlos “Polito” Ulloa the star of its advert was a no-brainer.
5. Guinness
Part of the “Good things come to those who wait” campaign, this medley of Guinness, surfers and horses riding waves is strangely captivating.
6. Centraal Beheer insurance
Struggling to sell insurance? Put a dressage horse on a racetrack and you have us tickled.
Do you have a favourite horsey advert? Let us know below…