Rolls-Royce: To The Man Who Is Afraid To Let His Dreams Come True campaign

Judson Knight

"To the Man Who Is Afraid to Let His Dream Come True," a print advertisement created by Jack Rosebrook of Young & Rubicam in the 1920s, was not the most famous Rolls-Royce ad of all time.

Rolls-Royce: To The Man Who Is Afraid To Let His Dreams Come True campaign

Judson Knight

Overview

"To the Man Who Is Afraid to Let His Dream Come True," a print advertisement created by Jack Rosebrook of Young & Rubicam in the 1920s, was not the most famous Rolls-Royce ad of all time. That distinction belonged to David Ogilvy's "At 60 Miles an Hour the Loudest Noise in This New Rolls-Royce Comes from the Electric Clock," which Robert Glatzer in The New Advertisingcalled "the most famous automobile ad ever written." Yet the earlier ad, for Rolls-Royce of America,...

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