Celebs vs Muggles

Do celebrities really add all that much to an ad? After all, many
of the most definitive campaigns have featured people who were
barely better known than a dead hermit.


In this episode, the History of Advertising Podcast tries to get
to the bottom of the issue by looking at campaigns from Birds Eye
(one of the first to use ‘real’, regional actors) and Holsten
Pills (featuring Griff Rhys Jones and the revived digital corpse
of John Wayne).