0 comments by Ben Koo on 9/12/2012
The Geico commercial below was posted over a year ago and was heavily featured during the 2011 football season. It's definitely awful for a variety of reasons that we'll get into in just a moment, but what's grinding my gears is that it's STILL in heavy rotation across sports programming. I mean most advertising for […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 9/11/2012
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NukNyaGMRgY?rel=0 Unless you're a passionate fisher you probably don't find the sport / hobby very entertaining. Catching just one fish can consume an entire day. Legal Sea Foods, a seafood chain that is based out of Boston, released a new, edgy campaign demonstrating why you should spend your time dining with them as opposed to […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Fifteen or so years ago on Saturday Night Live, there was a parody commercial called "Chess For Girls", which parodied children's toys being specifically geared towards specific demographics. In recent years, as the gender gap between males and females has shrunk, we really don't see many products modified to draw in a specific demographic. Bic […]
0 comments by Dan DiLoreto
http://youtube.com/watch?v= AKRiCsZfx4k[/youtube] The majority of this commercial doesn't bother me at all really. The part that makes my skin crawl is at the :21 second mark. "Grounded to the Ground!?" The first time I heard it all I did was shake my head. But after hearing it numerous times since the kickoff of the NFL […]
0 comments by David Rogers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=w1sT7QV8nfU?rel=0 Google has again done the unthinkable – they've made an emotional advertisement about a web browser. I give credit where credit is due. Prior to Google's ad campaign around Chrome I never suspected I would be captivated during an ad for a web browser. The latest offering from Google features a young girl headed […]
0 comments by Dan DiLoreto
http://youtube.com/watch?v= dej255w5p2U[/youtube] Jessica Simpson is hot. I don't care if we are talking back in the day as a pop sensation, when she was married to Nick Lachey, or more recently, after she had her baby. She has one of those faces. You'll know what I mean because that is all Weight Watchers has decided […]
0 comments by Dan DiLoreto on 9/10/2012
http://youtube.com/watch?v= MH2GWd0vH-0[/youtube] Visa, Inc. unveiled its new Visa NFL Fan Offers, a program that uses real-time communication to give enrolled Visa cardholders a chance to win different NFL experiences and merchant offers. The different NFL Experiences range from getting your own brand new game room makeover by John Madden and EA Sports, being in the […]
0 comments by Dan DiLoreto
http://youtube.com/watch?v= P8zT2vh6rB4[/youtube] Oh Korea, you make things so easy. For instance, this commercial. In fact, I should just quit typing right now because anything I say cannot describe the image that will be burned into your brains. This is Bean Baby Fart Captain, perhaps the greatest name of a doll ever, and apparently after feeding […]
0 comments by David Rogers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kMXbApqTSgo?rel=0 Velveeta wants you to be like that weird, annoying helicopter guy in the mall. You know the guy you desperately try to avoid so he doesn't give you a pitch on how his plastic toy can change you and your family's life? Him. Velveeta is now using that very guy to try and get you […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 9/7/2012
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z5abFrz_4HM?rel=0 Occasionally the staff of Awful Advertisements will shine the spotlight on an ad we actually enjoyed. After all, we can only take so much sensory punishment in a given day and we imagine you could use a break as well. Here, Volkswagen strikes advertising gold by showing off the benefits of owning a Jetta […]
0 comments by Dan DiLoreto
http://youtube.com/watch?v= TStkvLmHkoY[/youtube] He is Chris Berman to some and The Swami to others. For most though, he is just the bane of their existence. I fall into the latter category when it comes to Berman. If you like him, good for you, I'm not trying to sway you to the dark side. For me though, […]
0 comments by Ben Koo
While we'll mainly focus on national television commercials here, the radio spot below is an interesting study. For the past six months or so, West Coast Gear, a casual apparel startup has aggressively been buying radio ad sports on the the Bay Area's largest radio station, KNBR. Some will remember a little under a decade […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 9/6/2012
Residents of St. Louis love their Cardinals and their Blues. Unfortunately, in order to follow their favorite teams they also have to subject themselves to Vinson Mortgage Group's horrific set of commercials that continually plague St. Louis airwaves. Above you'll find one example of what the Vinsons churn out on a regular basis. Here the […]
0 comments by Dan DiLoreto
http://youtube.com/watch?v= YozMDzOAGxk[/youtube] Editors note: This is the first of many posts that will be part of our Tip Jar series. The Tip Jar will be used when someone
0 comments by Dan DiLoreto
http://youtube.com/watch?v= USHZZ5bwASU[/youtube] Just when we think ESPN can't possibly get more creative with their This is SportsCenter commercials, they deliver what can be considered one of the best yet. This edition follows John Clayton after an appearance on the show. After the cameras stop rolling he is shown wearing a suit from the waist up. […]
