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Internet Video of The Day: Babies Dancing to Billie Jean by Michael Jackson

So here's the internet video of the day. I find it hilarious and fascinating. I can't stop watching it. Yes, yes, I know it's just an Evian commercial, but it's still awesome. We've featured awesome ads here before and w…
The Most Interesting Marketing Scheme in the World

Decent beer, Dos Equis, has been running a bunch of commercials lately featuring "The Most Interesting Man In The World" that are, much like the beer itself, mediocre. Yet these commercials seemingly have a ton of buz…
"Girls Gone Wild" Pitch Meeting

I tend to be something of a night owl. Being awake at late hours (or early, depending on your point of view) brings to your attention commercials that don't air at other hours. Mostly because they can't. This is the …
Cleavage FTW

Check out how this web advertiser gradually added more cleavage, as they "optimized" the ad for clickthroughs. (via Coding Horror) First they started with this ad (which makes sense, for a flash-based game version of C…
Those boobs over at Nissan Marketing

After we discovered the ass-vertising ad tactic, it got us thinking: what other brilliant marketing schemes has Madison Avenue come up with? It didn't take long to find this ad - I guess this is an example of "boob-vert…
Burger King Kills Subtlety; Blows Your Mind Away.

I found this on copyranter. It's hard for me to say more about this than the picture does for itself. I mean, what can I say? I'd laugh, but I'm actually far too disgusted. I can't tell what disgusts me most, though…
Ass-vertising?! (No that's not a typo)

If this isn't evidence that we've entered a new millennium, than I don't know what is: Way back in the day when marketers were reaching for any means necessary to attract attention, one company came up with the not…
Why Do Europeans Get All The Good Advertisements?

I've touched on this topic before. Whether it's racially harmonious clay or dictator deterring condoms Europeans have all the luck when it comes to funny and interesting advertisements. Check out this one from Germany t…
Quizno's Commercials: Creepy, Funny, or Pr0n?

So Quizno's has been putting out some weird commercials lately. And I don't think I'm wrong when I say that I find them mildly disturbing. Hey, I'm all for weird and hilarious advertisements and for things that stret…
Why Marketing is a Gigantic Pile of Dung

There's some idiot, somewhere in the world, drinking liquified gold out of a diamond coated woolly mammoth tusk because he thought of using a gecko to advertise a company called "Geico." How did you come up with that…