This is a question/request for everybody, its been something ive been thinking about for a while, and thanks to Zaydoun’s latest post, I realized that many people are interested in the subject of Kuwaiti ads, or at least ads that have been shown in Kuwait in the past.

I know some of u work in advertising or marketing, but this also extends to anyone else who has an interest in Kuwaiti ads…

Is there a way to create an archive of all Kuwaiti old classic ads? Video and print? Where can find them? Even some of the recent ads would be great, like the new Global Investment ad on Gulf Road with the big 100 fils under it, showing how much dividend they’r distributing (i loved this ad), there’s also a creative Nissan ad next to the Nissan dealer on 4th ring road….but anyway, is there any way other than going around taking pictures and scanning magazines?

Ads that have been mentioned -

  • Samsung’s “Jassoom, aih da ya Jassoom”
  • Pizza Italia’s running man
  • NBK’s hala hala zeina
  • Like Cola’s footballer
  • Crush’s swimmer
  • Shay Al Wazza’s sa3eedy
  • Abanderado’s weird pedophile ad
  • Sharp’s hala hala
  • NEC’s sheesha smoking guy
  • Tide’s birthday mom
  • Tang’s “yil3abo yil3abo”
  • Nido’s generation growing

Ads are part of pop culture, and in some ways, they represent the history of an era in Kuwait. If anyone does in fact have any of these ads, or links to them, or good scanned ads (new or old), please send them to kuwaitism@gmail.com to compile a decent archive eventually.

Any thoughts on this idea?