James May watches his 10 favourite gin ads

I've watched your submissions for my snappily named 'Gin of The People - Advertising by The People Competition'. Some were really terrible but most were very good. Here are the winners in a binge-watch boxed set. Well done.

3rd place: "Labour Salvation" by @BifrostCreative
4th place: "The Impossible Debate" by @CivilDefenceFox
5th place: "When life is grim, try James Gin" by @sonicalmahjek9787
6th place: "An Extraordinary Gin For Ordinary People" by Ben
9th place: "Gin it to Win it" by @MatthewTFilmmaker

[bondmode]

here's hoping for the "10 worst ads" video

[SidGolan]

Number 7 - Let the Gin do the talking, by Betsy should surely have been in the top 3. The entire ad is done by a professional with graphic design expertise and can be put on air immediately as a finished advert. Companies would pay decent money for an ad of that quality.

[stellar-fl]

2:20 In my opinion the best one of all ads

[justkomani]

7 should've been much much higher. Betsey deserved it.

[saijay]

Betsey's ad was definitely the best of them all. Surprised James put that so low to be honest. 2:20

[IamNotU]

James May is the only guy I can think of that can get me to WANT to watch 10 commercials back to back

[vyperii]

"James Gin Sumi-ma-sen..." absolutely must be on all of the ends of James's videos from now on!!!

[markgettemeyer]

A range of creative thought in these - 2 and 7 were winners for me.

[jrd]

Number 7 would be in my top 3. Very commercial but well done to the winner at 1.

[agennt]

7 or 2 are the best. But my opinion does not matter

[paradoxofgodexisting]

"James gin for when a life is grim" isnt the best advertisment, but it is realistic one...

[willmx]

All it needs is a picture of the bottle of gin accompanied by James’s voice over “it’s gin, buy it.” I’ll except payment by phone 🙇‍♂️

[JFinnerud]

"Let the Gin do the talking" is top tier!

[splomotion]

I should've known better about that apostrophe, my mums an english teacher. Big ups to everyone who got higher than tenth place, the one in 2nd place was my favorite

[mcewb]

The Mystery box just arrived! Thanks so much James and Co, it was a blast!

[gormondprecursor]

Great ads, the 2nd place one was my favourite.

[Rokudaimedono]

Definitely 2 and 7 for me. Don't really understand how 1 beat either of them...

[kitrcs]

2 and 7 can battle it out...
8 can be up there, maybe...
1 is superb, it's all in there, and animation is mint.

[alisterx]

The commercial ad with the guy drinking and driving with the fast credits at the end, seems like the type of commercial somebody would say “you have X amount of money to spend”, and they spend just a very little bit of it and keep the rest.

[truecamvidea]

The List (with my preferences):
0:30 #10 Ginsploration in Parsnips * * *
0:55 #9 Gin It To Win It * *
1:41 #8 I Can't See a Gin *
2:20 #7 Let the Gin Do the Talking * * *
3:32 #6 An Extraordinary Gin For Ordinary People * * *
4:56 #5 When Life Is Grim, Try James Gin *
6:07 #4 The Impossible Debate * * *
7:38 #3 Labour Salvation * *
9:00 #2 The Bristish Bramble * * *
10:10 #1 Untitled * *