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Droga5 has a new campaign for Strongbow Cider that takes a tongue-in-cheek approach not unlike the agency’s work for fellow Heineken-owned brand Newcastle.

In a new spot for Strongbow, released in the heart of cider season, the brand pokes fun at a longtime alcohol advertising cliche, the slow-motion horse. As Adweek points out, this trope has been around since a 1982 ad for Budweiser Light (the brand’s first) employing a slow-motion Clydesdale. In the new Strongbow ad, however, the horse moves in slow motion while a couple walks down the beach at normal speed, continually stopping to wait for the horse to re-enter the frame. The spot emphasizes that Strongbow is best over ice, with a line of logic that “Apples are good, Strongbow Hard Cider is better, but Strongbow over ice is the best.” Enjoying it with your own slow-motion horse, however, is “the bestest.” The joke really works best in the 30-second format, as it feels a bit stretched at 60 seconds, but it’s a good dig at category cliches that hopefully means the end of brands attempting to use the slow-motion horse seriously. (more…)

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