The PSA won two Clio awards and the campaign was named one of the top 100 advertising campaigns of the 20th Century by Ad Age Magazine. The ads supposedly discloses harmful and addictive side effects of art, and is also mocking popular anti-drug campaign from the 1980's and 90's, put. But advertising has also been used for good, with the goal of educating American society on a variety of important issues and topics. What happens when you have the smallest budget ever, but still want to create a funny video? You use an old Saved by the Bell PSA about drugs and superimpose the head of the commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department on somebody else's body. It is easy to see why by the end of the campaign, Keep America Beautiful local teams had helped to reduce litter by as much as 88 in 300 communities, 38 states, and several countries.
The College for Creative Studies together with an advertising firm Team Detroit came up with an ingenious ad concept to attract students to their art courses. The underlying theme was that the social change required to bring women into the workforce was a patriotic responsibility for women and employers.
The most successful advertising recruitment campaign in American history, "Women in War Jobs" recruited two million women into the workforce to support the war economy. The Photographic Society of America (PSA) is a worldwide organization providing a wide range of services that promote photography and benefits to its members. And if they do their job right, it works: Nobody wants to be Helen Hunt jump-kicking through plate they do their job wrong, however, it mostly just reminds the audience that our preferred form of mischief is pretty fun, and hey - it's been a little while since we did it, hasn't it?.