As Wimbledon and its accompanying marketing blitz rush toward this weekend’s finals, Unruly Media has releases a list of the 20 most shared tennis-related ads of all time.
Not surprisingly, Roger Federer leads the pack, appearing in seven of the ads including the first-place winner, a deceptively lo-fi bit of behind-the-scenes tomfoolery that barely even acknowledges the brand it is promoting, Gillette. Its popularity owes much to an ongoing debate over whether the trick shot at its center is real or not:
In fact, Federer appears in the first three tennis spots in the top 20 before finally getting ousted at No. 4 by an ad for Vizzavi that doesn’t even feature real people, though it was created by Pixar, which surely helped its cred:
The first non-Federer athlete to show up is British hunk Andy Murray, in yet another lo-fi, shaky-cam-style ad (for HEAD) in which the star knocks objects over with his deadly tennis accuracy. The tricks on display in this spot are remarkable, and very possibly fake.
Female tennis players don’t appear on the list until No. 13, in this stirring tribute to the WTA:
Check out the full top-20 list at Mashable.
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