Reception
The distinctive jump cut editing techniques of Anticipation won the commercial a degree of critical acclaim and several awards from within the advertising industry, including the 1995 Institute of Creative Advertising & Design award for editing, and a Golden Shark award at the Kinsale International Advertising Festival.
The success of the campaign led Guinness to re-broadcast it in the United Kingdom in 1995, as a transition between the "The Man With the Guinness"/"Pure Genius" campaign, which had just concluded with Chain, and its new "Black and White" campaign, still in development. Though Chain was to be the last in the Pure Genius campaign, Anticipation was tagged with the Pure Genius slogan in the UK instead of There's No Time Like Guinness Time.
As a result of its featuring in the spot, Perez Prado's Guaglione reached the Number 1 spot in the Irish music charts, and Number 2 in the British Top 40.
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