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As the characters on a certain episode of Seinfeld once mused, a catchy commercial jungle is all you need to lodge your product in the minds of viewers and listeners, no matter how distracted they are or how divided their attentions. Accordingly, composing advertising music is in some ways its own little sub-stratum of musical [...]

Since the earliest days of Listicles, one of the major themes in our frequent coverage of innovative and creative advertising has had to do with sexually exploitative and downright sexist imagery and metaphors in all manner of ads. Sex, as they say, sells, and so playing with and making puns out of our sex-saturated visual [...]

As much as we appreciate a clever billboard, there is something very classy and almost charming about the advertising columns that seem, unfortunately, to be more widely used in Europe than in North America. Unreality rounds up some 10 Creative Column Advertisements that make us envious of European street furniture, although we’d like to add [...]

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 [...]

Have a seat, son, we want to talk to you about something very important. We understand why you have stopped paying attention to ads. After all, they’re everywhere and generally extremely idiotic, but one day you’ll coma across an ad that you’ll have strong feelings for, feelings you might not know how to express. When [...]

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 [...]

This marks the first of many end-of-the-decade listicles that we’ll be looking at over the next couple of weeks, and we figured we’d kick off the retrospective festivities with a subject that we particularly enjoy: commercials. Perusing The Business Insider’s listicle of The 10 Most Important TV Commercials of the 2000s we came across some [...]

Weirdly, as much as we love great ads, we end up remembering some of the worst commercials and billboards we see for longer because, well, really, really bad advertising is kind of a amazing. And just like good ads have the Cannes Lions, so crappy ads have the Tracy Awards, which reward the worst of [...]

After we went to our first 3D movie we had a serious problem with flatness withdrawal, so we kept wearing our flimsy, red and blue 3D glasses for weeks, hoping that our sheer devotion would turn the world into a 3D playground. Years later our dream kinda came true when one of our favorite magazines [...]

As much as ads annoy us if we have to sit through them at moments not of our choosing, when we get to watching beautiful commercials by incredibly creative designers and directors we can’t get enough. Our latest round-up of cool (mostly) new commercials is all about animation (mostly computer animation, but not exclusively), and [...]