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A DieHard battery will help you escape a zombie attack

When the zombie apocalypse arrives, you better hope your car has a battery you can count on when things get messy. That's the message from this DieHard battery commercial which cashes in on the current zombie phenomenon.  Here we see two survivors, one man and one woman, desperately trying to escape swarming zombies. The man more […]

Toys”R”Us turns a boring field trip into a day filled with toys

Toys"R"Us tricked a large group of children into thinking they were going on a field trip to learn about trees. Almost as soon as the kids were loaded on the bus, the yawns started rolling in. But wait! These kids weren't really going to learn about trees. Instead, they were going to Toys"R"Us to spend […]

NBA players leave the court to make deliveries

Rudy Gay, DeAndre Jordan and Amar'e Stoudemire abandoned the court and became delivery men for an ad promoting the NBA's new online source for game tickets. Wearing their full NBA uniform, the players faced adversity as they attempted to deliver tickets to basketball fans. Broken elevators, bad weather and some bad driving couldn't prevent tickets […]

Chevy wisely cancels “Silverado Strong” World Series promotion

Chevrolet wisely canceled a "Silverado Strong" promotion they had planned for Busch Stadium during Game 5 of the World Series. Chevy planned for Ozzie Smith to make a few comments about Chevy before the third inning and fans would hold up placards spelling out "Silverado Strong."  However, negative feedback through social media led to Chevy […]

Booking.com has a spooky ad just in time for Halloween

Booking.com has a pretty interesting ad just in time for Halloween. In an effort to promote the fact you can stay in over 350,000 different locations, including some which may or may not be haunted, the site shows what it might be like to stay in a spooky location. It's kind of disturbing, kind of […]

Sony PlayStation takes us on a journey from 1995 to present

The launch of the PS4 is just weeks away and with it we close the door on another generation of Sony technology. As a way of looking back at the PlayStation, PS2 and PS3, Sony created a brilliant British ad which details the life of a boy and his friends from when they have a […]

Bryan Cranston narrates Apple’s iPad Air commercial

What is Bryan Cranston up to now that his days as Heisenberg are over? He's narrating commercials for Apple and their new iPad Air, of course. In the company's first spot for the iPad Air, Cranston speaks over a commercial which depicts a pencil in a variety of locations. We're led to believe Cranston is […]

Coca-Cola creates a park in a commercial that’s too good to be true

Coca-Cola rolled out a park in a dismal, gray landscape in their most recent advertisement. They brought in grass, trees and a vending machine which only dispensed their product once you removed your shoes. The idea was that everyone needs to take a break, feel the grass between their toes and enjoy a Coke.  Cool […]

RV Outlet Mall wants you to pitch a tent

"It's time to pitch a tent!"  Run and hide children, grandpa is about to pitch a tent. This extremely creepy commercial from RV Outlet Mall in Georgetown, Texas is sending an awfully bizarre message. Two girls are camping with their father / grandpa. Innocent enough, right? The fun ends when grandpa and the narrator discuss […]

Mamming: Encourage women to get mammograms by laying your boobs on stuff

Move over planking, Tebowing and Dufnering. Mamming is the new craze sweeping the world. At least, it is according to this really clever spot to promote women having regular mammograms. The spot urges you to spread mammogram awareness by having women (men too!) lay their boobs on stuff in the traditional mammogram pose and send […]

Get ready: Call of Duty season is coming

It's that time of the year again. The latest Call of Duty title is set to drop in November on both current and next generation consoles and the video game world is buzzing. As always, the newest edition in the enormously successful series comes with plenty of hype and huge expectations. One expectation is that […]

Would you trust OMG Tax with your finances?

OMG Tax is a real company that you're supposed to trust with your tax problems and general finances. Would you let a company with Internet / teen girl lingo in its title handle some of your biggest financial issues? Probably not, which is why they've created this ridiculous baseball commercial loaded with clichés.  Well, we definitely […]

Telekinetic coffee shop prank is a promotion for Carrie

Pulling a prank on unsuspecting individuals is all of the rage in the world of advertising. "Prankvertising" as it's affectionately called, sets up an average person in an extraordinary event. The experience is taped, uploaded and a viral hit is born.  This video of people being duped into thinking a woman covered in coffee is […]

Samsung compares the Galaxy Gear to famous watches in pop culture

Samsung wants to introduce you to the Galaxy Gear. What's the Galaxy Gear you might ask? It's a device which looks like a normal watch but instead it has a touchscreen, apps and the ability to send and receive phone calls and text messages. If you think that sounds like something out of the future […]

Ron Burgundy promotes the 2014 Dodge Durango

The upcoming release of Anchorman 2 this Christmas means one thing: Product tie-ins are coming! Here we see Ron Burgundy explaining just how powerful the new 2014 Dodge Durango is compared to a horse. The new Durango has 360 horsepower, thus making it 360 times better than your average horse.  The ad mostly features Burgundy […]

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