| Video | Song | Appeared in: | iTunes link |
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| "Stringing Up Conkers" by The Boy Least Likely To. | "Hold Us," "First Step," "Family Travel" |  |
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| "Submarine Symphonika" by The Submarines | "Dine" "Nature Lovers" "Pass" "Song" "Gift" "Multi People" "Where's the Movie?" | |
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| "Mr. Pitiful" by Matt Costa | "Avid" "Share" "Travel" "Skateboard" "Copy and Paste" "Voice Control" | |
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| "You, Me, and the Bourgeouisie" by The Submarines | "Office" "Itchy" "Student" "Shazam" | |
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| "Perfect Timing" by Orba Squara | "Never Been an iPod," "Calamari," "How To," "Music Store", "Brilliant," "Bet" | |
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| "If I Had Eyes" by Jack Johnson | "Voice Control" | |
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| "$165 Million + Interest" by David Holmes | "Hallway" | |
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| "Inside Your Head" by Eberg | "Hello" | |
Archive for category iPhone Commercial Songs
Just in time for the holiday season, Apple has released two new “there’s an app for that” iPhone ads. The commercials once again focus on apps, featuring brief glimpses of 6 apps each, and end with the slightly altered tagline, “There are now over a 100,000 apps for just about anything.” The song in the background is “Submarine Symphonika” (iTunes link) by The Submarines.
Gift
The first, called “Gift,” shows off the following apps:
- Target (iTunes link)
- ColorChange (iTunes link)
- The Snow Report (iTunes link)
- Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition (iTunes link)
- HotelPal (iTunes link)
- Zipcar (iTunes link)
Song
The second ad is “Song“, and covers the following apps:
- Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals (iTunes link)
- Credit Card Terminal (iTunes link)
- Facebook (iTunes link)
- The Sims 3 (iTunes link)
- Redfin Real Estate (iTunes link)
- Shazam (iTunes link)
Neither ad is specifically Christmas related, though the first one does have a rather holiday feel, with emphasis on buying presents, ski conditions, and travel.
Apple has released 3 new iPhone commercials once again themed around showing the diversity of apps for the iPhone. The fast-paced commercials blitz through 6 apps each (previous ads focused on only 3). There is a lack of an overarching theme to the app selection, something present in previous ads. A new background song is featured: “Submarine Symphonika” by The Submarines.
Dine In, Dine Out
- TripCase (free, iTunes link): Flight information toolkit with push notifications for flight delays. Shows flight departures, arrival status, security wait times, baggage claim locations, gate changes, co-share information.
- New York Subway 09 ($4.99, iTunes link): Hand-drawn map and route planner for NYC with places of interest included. Unique feature is that route planning does not require an Internet connection.
- Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List (free, iTunes link): Over 25,000 recipes. Save your favorites. Create recipe-specific shopping lists. Search recipes by keyword. Turn the iPhone on its side to get step-by-step cooking instructions for recipes.
- Zagat To Go ‘09 ($9.99, iTunes link): The classic and trusted restaurant guide on your iPhone.
- Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite ($9.99 , iTunes link) : Create, open, and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files. The best office suite for the iPhone.
- Gap Stylemixer (free, iTunes link): dress a virtual mannequin with clothes from the Gap. Share your outfits with friends over Facebook, steal ideas from others.
Nature Lovers
- iXpenseIt ($4.99, iTunes link): Simplifies expense tracking and budgeting. Store photo receipts. Track mileage with customizeable reimbursement rate. Export reports in .csv or html via email or WiFi. Password protection.
- DailyFinance (free, iTunes link): Get stock quotes. Track multiple portfolios. Get customizable financial news.
- GuitarToolkit ($9.99, iTunes link): Accurate guitar tuner and guitar chord encyclopedia. Metronome. Search for chords and scales. Lefty mode.
- Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook ($9.99, iTunes link): Travel phrase book. Get audio examples of phrases as well as phonetically spelled out phrases.
- iBird Explorer Plus ($19.99, iTunes link): Field guide to birds. Audio of bird songs and calls, hand-drawn pictures as well as professional photographs, search feature, and lifetime updates.
- Pizza Hut (free, iTunes link): Order pizza from your favorite Pizza Hut location with this slick little app feature interesting animations.
Pass Time
- Fandango (free, iTunes link): Find movies near you. Purchase tickets.
- G-Park ($0.99, iTunes link): Park your car, open the app, and hit Park Me! Get lost, then find your way back to your parked car using turn-by-turn directions. Add notes or take a photo for additional comfort in finding your way back to your car.
- VocabWiz College Vocabulary ($4.99, iTunes link): Study for the vocabulary portion of the SATs and college tests with 4500+ commonly tested words with example sentences. The app reads the text to you. Quiz mode for self-assessment.
- 365 Crosswords ($4.99, iTunes link): A year’s worth of crossword puzzles from Simon & Schuster. Features pen or pencil mode.
- Classics ($2.99, iTunes link): eReader app for the iPhone that comes with over a dozen books. Very elegant interface.
- ABC Animals ($1.99, iTunes link): Makes learning letters fun and mobile for small children. Flashcards display colorful letters. Features accompanying audio to help kids learn to recognize and say letters. Kids can practice drawing the letters with their fingers using the app.
The commercials are unusually fast-paced. I don’t think I’d remember or recognize any of the apps after viewing it on TV. What do you think? Good commercials?
Apple has released a new iPhone commercial called “Avid” that focuses on apps for avid sports fans (golf, baseball, and tennis).
Featured in the ad are the following apps:
Golfshot: Golf GPS ($29.99, iTunes link) is a golfing app that uses GPS to measure the distance from where your ball lies to the green. It’s also a scorecard. It includes an automatic course handicap calculator, personal historical score tracking, and charts. Features over 15,000 golf courses. The app is very well reviewed in the App Store (currently averages 5 stars).
MLB.com At Bat 2009 ($9.99, iTunes link) is the official app from major league baseball that streams live video of games (one free per day, or all games if you subscribe to MLB.tv) and streams audio of all games, as well as delivering scores and stats.
TouchSports Tennis ‘09 ($0.99, iTunes link) is a realistic 3D tennis game with a dynamic POV camera. TouchArcade called it “console quality,” whatever that means.
The commercial ends with the tagline “There’s an app for just about anything. Only on the iPhone.” The background music is “Mr. Pitiful” by Matt Costa (iTunes link).
Apple has released two new iPhone commercials called “Share” and “Travel.” The focus is once again on apps, with the ads featuring three each.
Share
“Share” is themed around sharing information or some downtime using the iPhone. The apps featured are:
Mover (free, iTunes link) makes transfering images, contacts, text clippings and bookmarks to other nearby iPhones easy with just a flick of the finger. Just connect to the same WiFi network, open Mover on both iPhones, and start flicking.
Bump (free, iTunes link) lets you share contact info by bumping two iPhones together. It works over 3G, EDGE, and WiFi for both the iPhone and iPod Touch. Both devices need to have the app open for it to work.
Scrabble ($4.99, iTunes link) is the classic board game that can be played against a friend over WiFi or through Facebook.
Travel
“Travel” focuses on apps that make traveling easier. In particular, a Paris vacation. The apps featured are:
Rick Steves’ Historic Paris Walk ($4.99, iTunes link) is an interactive Paris travel guide that features text, audio, and video that will narrate the history and other interesting facts about points of interest throughout the city.
Paris Metro 09 ($4.99, iTunes link) is a route planner for public transportation in Paris. Tap on the map for location information, search, or choose from a list of locations. Points of interest, museums, hotels, parks, restaurant, shops, hospitals, streets, etc, are also included. The route planner will automatically suggest the nearest station to any place of interest you select.
Postman ($0.99, iTunes link) lets you create and send digital postcards on the iPhone using your own pictures or a Google Map of your location.
Both commercials end with the tagline “There’s an app for just about anything.” The background music is “Mr. Pitiful” by Matt Costa (iTunes link).
“Skateboard” focuses on the iPhone 3GS’s video recording and editing abilities. The video features a close-up of the screen of an iPhone as it records a skateboarder on a ramp (with curious legal copy below that reads “Auto-exposure altered”). The ad ends with the just-made video being attached to an email and the narrator saying “And this is the new iPhone sharing video. Video on the iPhone 3GS, the most powerful iPhone yet.”
The music playing in the background is “Mr. Pitiful” by Matt Costa (iTunes link).
Apple has released two new commercials for the iPhone 3GS: “Voice Control” and “Copy & Paste.” The song playing in the background in both commericals is “Mr. Pitiful” by Matt Costa (iTunes link).
The commercials are a departure from Apple’s previous focus on apps and instead examine some of the new features of iPhone 3.0. The ads end with a new tagline: “The most powerful iPhone yet.”
Voice Control
The ad takes a look at the new voice control feature of the iPhone. Examples of voice calling and controlling the iPod (“Play songs by Jack Johnson”) are shown.
Copy and Paste
A narrator introduces the iPhone and says it lets you do some pretty incredible things. It then shows how to copy and paste a phone number, an article with picture into an email, and a Google Map. Hmm, I’m not sure copy and paste qualifies as a “pretty incredible thing.”
Apple has released three new iPhone commercials, and once again, the ads focus on the versatility of iPhone applications and their use in everyday, real-life situations. The commercials end with the now familiar tagline “There’s an app for just about anything.”
Office
The “Office” commercial is aimed at small business owners. The premise of the ad is carrying out a customer transaction using apps on the iPhone. The iPhone is used to process a credit card, print a shipping label, and track the FedEx delivery. See below for a look at each app.
The apps used in the commercial are:
Credit Card Terminal
Credit Card Terminal ($49.99, iTunes link) lets you process credit card transactions anywhere you have a network connection. Credit card numbers are not stored on the iPhone, and transactions are done over an encrypted SSL connection. Transactions require an account with Authorize.net, which costs $25 a month and $0.24 per transaction.
Print & Share
Print & Share ($6.99, iTunes link) allows you to print documents wirelessly from your iPhone to your computer. Documents could even be printed remotely to your office if you were traveling. The app requires free desktop software called WePrint (Mac and Windows) to be running on the computer connected to the printer.
FedEx Mobile for iPhone
FedEx Mobile for iPhone (free, iTunes link) lets you track your FedEx packages using your iPhone. Its provides customization options like nicknaming shipments, adding notes, and creating watch lists for priority packages. You can also create shipping labels (and print them with Print & Share?), get shipping rate quotes, and find the closest FedEx office.
Itchy
The “Itchy” commercial has an outdoor theme and is targeted toward outdoor types and nature lovers. I’m not sure if this is a big market for the iPhone, but perhaps the “mobile computer” aspect of the iPhone appeals to this market. The commercial features three apps.
The apps used in the commercial are:
Compass Go
Compass Go ($1.99, iTunes link) is a “GPS compass,” meaning you must set a target destination, and an arrow will point you in the direction you walk to reach the target. The directions are “as the bird flies,” not street directions, so it’s mostly useful for walking and not driving.
iBird Explorer
iBird Explorer Backyard, Plus, and Pro (Backyard, $4.99, iTunes link; Plus, $19.99, iTunes link; Pro, $29.99, iTunes link) are a birdwatching apps that serve as a field guide to help identify birds in the wild. All data is stored locally on the iPhone, so there is no need to connect to the Internet to access the information. The Pro version features 891 bird species. Features include the ability to listen to birdsongs and calls of almost every species of North American bird, 1,700 bird photographs identifying characteristics like plumage and behavior, and maps for typical North American locations of species.
How To Videos from Howcast.com
How To Videos from Howcast.com (free, iTunes link) gives streaming-video access to Howcast.com, a site dedicated to How To videos. The video depicted in the commercial shows you “How to Recognize and Avoid Poison Ivy.”
Student
The “Student” commercial is aimed at college students and shows how iPhone apps can help students deal with everyday college issues. The apps in the commercial help find an apartment, a cheaper textbook, and crops a picture featuring a student partying to something more acceptable for sending to mom and dad.
Apartments
Apartments (free, iTunes link) gives access to Apartment Guide’s database of available apartments. The app displays photos as well as any and all information about apartments provided by the leasers. There are driving instructions and maps for each apartment, as well as the ability to save apartments to a favorites list.
SnapTell
SnapTell (free, iTunes link) is a price comparison app that lets you snap a picture of a product with your iPhone’s camera, upload it to SnapTell’s service, and quickly get online prices.
Photogene
Photogene ($2.99, iTunes link) is photo editing software designed for your iPhone. It offers dozens of features including basics like crop, rotate, and color correction as well as more advanced like thought and speech bubbles. The app received a PC Mag Editor’s Choice award and was one of iLounge’s 100 best iPhone apps.
Note: The song in the background of all three commericals is “You, Me, and the Bourgeoisie” by the Submarines (iTunes link).