How do you market potato chips? Is it by taste? Crunch? Value? None of the above. According to Lay's, you sell potato chips by showing cannibalism. Specifically, you show Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head eating potato chips.  Ah yes. Cannibalism never looked so tasty.  http://youtube.com/watch?v=LvFLJn0ZIaQ?rel=0 This concept isn't creative. We've seen numerous edible characters devouring […]

The Sunday Times, one of Britain's largest-selling Sunday newspapers, wanted to show off their newly redesigned culture section of their website and paper. Instead of just announcing the change, they created an incredible ad which is both a masterful tribute to pop culture and an extremely impressive artistic accomplishment.  As you watch the video below, […]

Valentine's Day is right around the corner. Another meaningless holiday. I mean, really. Who cares? Saturday Night Live showed us once again how most people forget about this "special" day and try to pawn off a last minute gift as something thoughtful, when really your present likely came from a drug store. Behold: I still don't […]

It was up to the commercials to save the Super Bowl XLVIII broadcast thanks to the whoopin' the Seattle Seahawks laid on the Denver Broncos.  Sadly, many of the commercials in this year's Super Bowl class were anything but super.  One of those commercials with a sports tie-in caught my eye for a peculiar reason. […]

Super Bowl 48 is in the books. As we turn the page on the most popular advertising day of the year, we're left debating all of the ads which filled our screens. Was this a good year for ads or were they on par with Peyton Manning and the Broncos? Here are our selections for […]

Coca-Cola had the gall – THE GALL – to air an ad that featured "America the Beautiful" being sung in multiple languages, and Twitter wasn't happy with it. No sir, not at all: Sorry CocaCola, but I do not appreciate hearing "America The Beautiful" being sung in a variety of FOREIGN languages. — Charm Of […]

Most of the ads we discuss here have pretty basic production values. Some commercials seem slapped together while others fit the generic mold of TV advertising. Once in a great while an ad will come along which will blow everything else out of the water when it comes to the production and quality of the […]

I will make a disclaimer before writing this: I am from St. Louis. My next disclaimer is that I honestly don't drink Bud, unless it's hot outside and the beer is really cold. Despite the latter and probably because of the former, I find Budweiser's Super Bowl advertisements to be traditionally the cream of the […]

At 6' 10", NBA star Kevin Love towers over most average individuals. One would imagine that he has a fairly large appetite to go along with his large stature. At least, that's the point Taco Bell is trying to make in this ad for their XXL Steak Nachos.  Watch Kevin Love do big man things: […]

We've given Boston Market plenty of attention lately due to the bizarre Kellen Winslow Jr. story and the company's incredible response. Now is as good a time as ever to look through the advertising archives and unearth an old Boston Market classic.  This ad from 1997 features Keith Olbermann in a spot which spoofs the […]

The marketing team for Beats by Dre should probably go out and buy some lottery tickets. Remarkably, the company was seemingly able to predict that Richard Sherman would be one of the biggest talking points in sports before Sherman delivered his now famous post-game interview. Check out this Beats by Dre commercial which was uploaded to […]

There is something about watching ads for a foreign country that is just fun, especially when they're ads for something familiar back here in North America. American hockey commercials (as well as Canadian ones) are full of grit and determination. The players are serious. They squint. They have all of Canada behind them as well […]

Super Bowl ads used to be pretty secretive. No one knew what a company would roll out until they saw it during the game. Those days are over. Now ads are teased and sometimes even shown days before the Super Bowl. The idea is to build buzz about your ad and try to get the […]

Every year there is an interesting little showdown at the beginning of the calendar year. As tax season gets underway, the two largest tax preparation services/products ramp up large ad campaigns in hopes of compelling Americans without a tax preparation product, accountant, or company of choice, that they are indeed worth the cost. Although H&R […]

Progressive's original Young Flo ad showed us a glimpse of Flo as a child running for school president. It was a somewhat refreshing take on an exhausted topic. By now we all know that Flo wants to save you money, but the spin seen in the original Young Flo ad was at least something we hadn't […]