Morning Update: Forgotten toys want to know what love is in ad for UK Freeview

Miranda Ward

December 4, 2014 8:44

AdWeek: These Forgotten Toys Want to Know What Love Is. They Want You to Show Them

“If your once-loved, coldly discarded belongings could share their feelings of loss and exile, what would it sound like? Like Foreigner, that’s what.

In this Leo Burnett spot for British TV service Freeview, a bunch of “left behinds”—mainly unsold toys and figurines—spring to life after a parish rummage sale and sing along with Foreigner’s 30-year-old power ballad “I Want to Know What Love Is.”

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Miranda Ward

Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.