If it’s a jingle, let it mingle.
As much as we try to skip as many ads and commercials as we can this day in age, capitalism always finds a way to rears it’s claws to sink itself into our brain through the power of catchy advertising earworms. There’s an art to a commercial jingle that sets it apart from traditional songs. A good commercial jingle needs to catch your attention in a short span of time and make you subconsciously think about it, so when you are ready to make a purchasing decision it’s the first one you think of. It’s a strange and somewhat nefarious tradition but when done right at least you got something fun to hum along to! So join Tuong La and the A-Team Samantha Leggatt, Angus MacDonald, and Leslie Cserepy as they reminisce and sing along to some our favourite tunes that refuse to leave our minds and rank Top 5 Commercial Jingles.
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Ground Rules
- Can be any jingle for a commercial whether it’s fictional or not.
- Jingles don’t necessarily need to have lyrics to be considered a jingle
- We are ranking the jingles purely on the jingle itself and not how good of a brand they are representing.
- Some jingles approach “song” territory and that will be taken into consideration but as long as it’s designed to promote the product or company it will likely count
- The four of us live in Ontario, Canada so a lot of our picks are influenced to what we were exposed to so you will see lots more “local” picks.
- As Leslie says on the podcast “If it’s a jingle let it mingle. And if it’s a jungle let it…mungle?”
*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered lists.
Group Top 5
4. Mentos
1. Pizza Nova
Other nominations in our Top 12
- Marineland
- Oscar Mayer Wiener
- Mr. Plow (The Simpsons)
- Juicy Fruit
- Sleep Country Canada
- Oliver Jewellery Cashman
- C&H Sugar Commercial
Honourable mentions
- The Mr. Mozarella Song
- Arby’s
- Kit Kat
- Fabricland
- Lucky Charms
- State Farm
- Farmers Insurance
- Folgers
- Band-aid
- Beautiful Cover Girl
- Meow Mix
- Old Spice
- Pizza Pizza
- Chili’s Babyback ribs
- Empire
- Alarm Force
- United furniture warehouse
- Speedy Glass Repair
- Don’t Put it In Your Mouth
- Alexanians
- Head On
- Riccola
- Chicken Tonight
- Farm Boy
- African Lion Safari
- Corbeil
- Spaghettii-O’s
- Huggeys
- Sockem Boppers
- Triple Dent Gum (Inside Out)