0 comments by David Rogers on 6/7/2013
The comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" always deploys a rather unique series of advertisements when a new season approaches. To promote the show's eighth season last year a new cast was brought in consisting of Haley Joel Osment, Xzibit, Andrew Dice Clay, Chael Sonnen and Candace Cameron in a series of hilarious parodies. To […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 6/6/2013
Domino's has created some headlines after they released a video where they delivered a pizza with a drone. The DomiCopter flies pizza to customers, soaring over trees and lakes before arriving at its destination. The video above shows the DomiCopter making a delivery in the UK, but the company teased that this new technology would be […]
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=grdzCU3VbJ4?rel=0 Remember just a couple of days ago when we discussed that this NBA playoff commercial might be the best playoff commercial of 2013? We'd like to take our vote back. ESPN has raised the bar with this incredible piece of animation from London-based animator Richard Swarbrick which highlights some of the greatest moments in […]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sd8FAq-yk0s?list=PL060099DCEC8CD30A For someone born 2 weeks after Super Bowl XX, it's hard for me to imagine just how big the '85 Bears must have been in popular culture. From the Super Bowl Shuffle to the big personalities like Jim McMahon and William "The Refrigerator" Perry, they must have been every marketing agent's dream in the […]
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=eVSF5T0Mxh0?rel=0 BBQ is back at Burger King! Are you excited? Probably not, because you likely had no idea that BBQ ever left Burger King in the first place. Burger King is trying to create their own "McRib sensation" by proudly announcing something is back that most people had no idea was ever on the menu […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 6/4/2013
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6q02ARCQpxg?rel=0 What's worse than a cell phone contract? Not much, according to Boost Mobile. In their new commercial titled "Junk Dunk", Boost Mobile claims that cell phone contracts are worse than being posterized on the court – even if you get junk in your face. Well…this ad certainly caught our attention. It's pretty hard to […]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=G7yIoBqtCQQ The four major sports always seem to produce the best commercial spots come playoff time and as far as creative, appealing ads go the NBA is at the top of the ladder. The Association has done it once again with this 2013 NBA Playoffs commercial featuring some of the league's best guards that have […]
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Realtors have a difficult time breaking through the clutter. There's only so many ways you can advertise that your area of expertise is buying and selling properties. In the case of Roger Winsor, a Canadian realtor that specializes in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, he decided to go a different route entirely. The ad […]
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9:30pm: Mad Men is rediscovering its fastball as Season 6 ends. After an excellent episode last week, tonight's episode has two interesting plot lines. First, will the SCDP/CG&C boys lose the Chevrolet account? Does Ken Cosgrove get run out of Detroit? The episode's title is "A Tale of Two Cities" and the episode's description includes the […]
0 comments by Reva Friedel on 5/31/2013
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7jo_x7ecIFg?rel=0 I told myself this morning that whoever came up with this concept has an obsession with Good Will Hunting and wanted to channel that via this commercial. If that doesn't seem logical, well, can you blame me? This ad is just…not good. And I have stayed at many a Holiday Inn Express and will […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 5/29/2013
PBS is mocking the current state of television with a series of fake reality show ads which have popped up in New York subways. Thirteen, one of New York's PBS stations, is urging viewers to support quality programming by mocking the ridiculous reality shows which currently fill the dial. Married to a Mime. Bad Bad […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 5/28/2013
In an effort to promote their new Gillette Fusion ProGlide razor, Gillette took to the parks and walking paths of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Noticing that some of the parks and paths were a bit overgrown, Gillette dressed up a trimmer as a giant razor and set out to give the city a close shave. Over […]
0 comments by Michael R. Hall on 5/27/2013
9:45pm: Joan Harris looks to figure prominently in tonight's new episode of Mad Men. And yes, tonight is a new episode, even though it's Memorial Day weekend here in America. Roger Sterling and Don Draper are (fictional) veterans, and at least one of them left the war with his real name, so it's somehow appropriate to have […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 5/23/2013
Kmart is building off of their successful "Ship my pants" formula. You might recall that we wrote about Kmart's "Ship my pants" ad and how it took the advertising world by storm. Now Kmart has released a new spot that uses a similar shtick – "Big gas savings!" http://youtube.com/watch?v=m1yir-p68xM?rel=0 When I first heard Kmart rolled […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 5/22/2013
Cool Whip has a public service announcement: Stop mistreating cakes! Created in the same all-too-familiar tone of the emotionally draining Sarah McLachlan animal abuse PSA, Cool Whip warns that the images you're about to see might be difficult to look at. http://youtube.com/watch?v=RZAIJAmPn44?rel=0 Those poor little cakes. You monsters! Cool Whip went the public service announcement […]
