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Today is Toothache Day! Though we hesitate to say whether this means we should be out causing ourselves toothaches, or if, rather, today is a day to treat toothaches, we have devised a compromise that celebrates both the problem and the solution. Tooth care commercials are a too-often overlooked sub-section of the personal hygiene industry, [...]

We once took out a classified ad in the local paper to offer our skills as list-makers, but due to a rather unfortunate typo we were quickly approached by hordes of event-planners looking for talented mist-makers. Since then we’ve only gone to the classifieds as a sure source of comedy, as evidenced by Manofest’s listicle [...]

Weirdly, we seem to have many more banned Super Bowl commercials in the running this year, maybe because in the age of viral marketing getting banned is better (and cheaper) than getting aired. For instance, the only ad from the big game last year is that PETA spot, and it didn’t even get shown. It [...]

Oh, hey, look at the time! It must be the start of Superbowl weekend. Honestly, all we care about are the ads, which tend to be the only part of the event (the game, the halftime show, the nacho feast) that isn’t horribly disappointing. And thankfully, very few Superbowl commercials actually have football players in [...]

We’re big fans of unconventional advertising, because we think that especially good shorts by intelligent creative types won’t just push a product, but will actually make us think about something in a completely new way. That pretty well describes all the commercials featured in AdFreak’s listicle of The 30 Freakiest Ads of 2009, many of [...]

We like that new technology is bringing the rest of the world up to European advertising standards, which go with the “If it’s pretty it doesn’t need to make sense” principle. Increasingly, commercials for products big and small, from every corner of the planet, are doing simple concepts with slick visual style, like those in [...]

Generally we’re a little frustrated by how many of the images we encounter on the street in a given day are commercials, not to mention that most are poorly conceived and thoughtlessly executed. If we were starting a new society (which we do almost ever day, in our mind) the streets of its cities would [...]

Evidently we’re somewhat obsessed with advertising and commercials, so we try to refrain from posting them too frequently. Occastionally, though, we’re assailed by such a rush of stunning new ads that we just have to share their artistry and vision, which is why we’ve assembled these 12 Trippy New Commercials, beginning with what might also [...]

Today is September 11 – in case you’d forgotten, in which event you must not be a Patriot (today is also Patriot Day) – the 8th anniversary of a certain event that changed the course of modern history. Of course, no horrifying act of death and destruction is beyond the purview of advertisers constantly looking [...]

Sure, George W. Bush impersonators’ commercials appearances were good for a laugh, but they probably didn’t do a terribly good job of selling the product in question. With one of the most popular presidents in decades, what better time to put the executive branch to work in advertising? That’s just what the entries in Best [...]