Category Archives: Advertising

The two Super Bowl ads that GoDaddy ran this year were roundly chastised for being stupid, immature, silly and just plain dumb. Well the last laugh is on the haters because those two ads delivered GoDaddy its biggest sales day … Continue reading →

Catch any of the Super Bowl last night? I mean the football game and not the commercials you have been anxiously waiting for all year. The Super Bowl may be the biggest time of the year for football fanatics, but … Continue reading →

Pepsi versus Coke. Coke versus Pepsi. The “war” has been going on for as long as the two brands have been manufacturing their various variations of sugar water. The latest salvo come from Pepsi who brilliantly punks Coke by producing, … Continue reading →

Right up there with PornHub in the great Super Bowl Free Publicity Land Grab game is Ashley Madison which just ran a print ad featuring a hotly-clad, coin-flipping female referee under the headline, “Do You Prefer Head or Tail?” Oh … Continue reading →

After having been absent from the Super Bowl since 2005, Subway is making a return. The ad, created by Boston-based MMB, celebrates the 15 years that long time spokesman Jared Fogle has been able to maintain his famed 200 pound … Continue reading →

Advertising Week, launched in 2004, is adding a European component to its event. The organization has launched Advertising Week Europe to be held in London March 18-22. Advertising Week, as a whole, has come a long way since its launch … Continue reading →

So that stupid Super Bowl teaser Mercedes did last week featuring Kate Upton? The one in which she takes on the role of “object of desire” to a bunch of guys washing a car while their tongues wag? The one … Continue reading →

Dating site Zoosk is out with a silly video in which a girl tries to get it on with a real frog. The message, of course, is that a woman’s prince will never be found in a frog but just … Continue reading →

Is it really too much to ask to be entertained by the ad industry just once a year? How hard could that be? Oh wait, yea, we get it. It’s never easy. For the most part, creative success is a … Continue reading →

It would seem the lifespan of a Super Bowl ad keeps growing as Americans will be searching, sharing and rewatching ads this year more than ever before, according to independent San Francisco advertising agency Venables Bell & Partners. Results from … Continue reading →