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 […]

Bank of America is probably not one of America's favorite businesses for various and sundry reasons that I won't get into here. I can understand their need to work their image into something relatable, something "folksy," something "trendy middle class guy."  They could've done a little better job picking their soundtrack. http://youtube.com/watch?v=vTZ_YSOjzV8 Those of you […]

The story of the day today seemed to be the details emerging from Kellen Winslow Jr.'s November arrest for possession of marijuana. An athlete getting arrested for possession of anything these days is not all that surprising. But today, court documents revealed a bit more color behind the arrest.  Winslow was allegedly masturbating in his […]

Jenny McCarthy is one of many celebrity spokesmen for blu eCigs, which you may have seen featured in the opening monologue at the Golden Globe awards. They have managed to become the "cool eCig," the one with the famous people attached. I personally think it's because of the pretty blue light at the tip of […]

It's pretty big news in the soccer world when a player ditches the English Premier League in favor of Major League Soccer. When it was officially announced that Jermain Defoe would be leaving Tottenham for Toronto in February, it's safe to say some soccer fans in the U.K. were pretty surprised.  Toronto FC tried to capture […]

During hockey season, I will admit that really the only live TV that I watch are hockey games. Most games are broadcast on a Fox Sports network, and most games have the Taco Bell Grilled Stuft (stuffed?) Nacho ("nacho?") commercial in heavy rotation. Initially I tuned these ads out, but being forced to watch them […]