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The commercial aired on January 22, 1984 during the 3rd quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. It showed a heroine wearing red shorts and an Apple t-shirt running through an Orwellian world to throw a sledgehammer at an image of Big Brother — an implied representation of IBM. The concluding screen showed the message 'On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like " 1984".'
The 60 second film was created by the advertising agency Chiat/Day, with copy written by Steve Hayden and filming directed by Ridley Scott (who had only just finished filming Blade Runner).
Despite costing $400,000 to make and a further $500,000 on air time, the film was shown commercially only once (although it was shown once before in 1983 on a small television station in Twin Falls, Idaho in the early hours to allow the commercial to qualify for advertising awards). However its impact created such a media frenzy that it gained many subsequent free TV airings and column images as it was discussed in the media. At the time Nielsen ratings estimated that the ad reached nearly 50% of the households in America. These guerilla marketing tactics are part of what made the commercial so influential in marketing circles; it is now seen as the first example of event marketing , and is popularly credited with starting the trend of yearly "event" Super Bowl commercials.
The commercial is frequently voted top in surveys of influential marketing campaigns. For example, Advertising Age named it the 1980s 'Commercial of the Decade', and in 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep the US TV GuideTV Guide is a weekly magazine about TV programming. The bulk of the publication consists of localized TV listings. It also features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and reviews. TV Guide was first published on April 3, 1953. Its premi selected it as number one in their list of '50 Greatest Commercials of All Time'.
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