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Posted:
17 February 2010 @ 8am

By:
Janis Behan

Categories:
Olympics Advertising, Trend Spotting

Olympic Brand Highlights: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

If you haven’t been living under a rock, most of you should know by now that RBC is one of the major sponsors of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay.

It’s hard to remember now, but months before the Olympics were here in town, RBC was advertising the opportunity to become an Olympic torch bearer (above) by going to their website rbc.com/carrythetorch.

Once the Torch Relay had begun, RBC started airing this commercial on TV. Quite a simple, and beautiful ad, in my opinion.

Traveling with the Torch Relay was this beast of a rolling advertisement.

Photo via miss604 on Flickr

Photo via miss604 on Flickr

You may have also seen some of their rather large out-of-home advertisements around Vancouver, including the building wrap below.

Photo via penmachine on flickr

Photo via penmachine on flickr

What are your thoughts on the RBC ads and what they’ve done as a National Partner of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games here in Vancouver?

If you would like to see more interesting ads around Vancouver, try sifting through our flickr group of Olympic ads, or check out our Olympic ad contest, the Olys, and submit a photo!

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Posted by
Heather Stewart
10 March 2010 @ 7am

We love the little RBC Man with his bowler hat and for a change I didn’t mind seeing commercials on tv during the olympics. We actually looked forward to see what the little guy was going to do next.


Posted by
Janis Behan
10 March 2010 @ 12pm

Thank you for the comment, Heather. I also enjoyed watching most of the commercials during the Olympics.


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