Pepsi Max spent $3 million on this Super Bowl ad that prominently features spousal abuse and assault: The poor man in this spot is kicked and has his head slammed into a table as well as having soap shoved in his mouth which devotees of “A Christmas Story” know full well can very easily lead [...]

I have lots of friends on both the traditional and interactive sides of the advertising business, but I have to tell you, the traditional folks are the most fun to fuck with about branding. You see, my theories about traditional advertising are that the ads themselves have a real purpose in the world – to [...]

Can you tell which of these cars is a Hyundai Elantra? It’s ok. Be honest. If I hadn’t put the pictures together I sure wouldn’t be able to. But the marketers at Hyundai think you can. They are so confident their car stands out from all the other small cars on the market that they [...]

One of the many marketing strategies you can take when you’re not the first in a particular marketplace is to pick a fight with the top dog.  I don’t know if Motorola isn’t the top dog in phones anymore and I don’t have the time to look it up, but for some reason they are [...]

I’m kidding, of course, but I’m such a slave to traffic for this site that I’m purposely going to act like every other blogger out there and craft a controversial headline just to get you in the door.  So, put down the rolling pin and read the rest of the post, hot lips. So, apparently [...]

While I only started bitching about ads on this site at the end of 2009, it’s pretty much all this site does five or so days a week.  I do have a few competitors out there, but they are few and far between.  Then the Super Bowl happens and every friggin’ site on the net [...]

While you’re all awaiting my review of the myriad of horrible, horrible ads that came on around the Saints handing the Colts their own asses in a little pink box, here’s a great parody of the Google Super Bowl ad: Just in case you don’t get the joke, here’s the one that Google actually ran [...]

I’ve got the presentation of my career in about an hour, but that doesn’t mean I can’t completely ignore my paying job to support a site that pays me less than a penny a visitor to write my ass off… Anyway, Adweek put together this real of Super Bowl sneak previews… most of them are [...]

So, this was bound to happen sooner or later and, wow, am I happy it did because it just proves that CBS is really just a big bag of hypocritical a-holes. I’ve already mentioned on this site that CBS is allowing the very anit-Gay, anti-choice, and anti-family group, Focus on the Family to put up [...]

I was actually wondering when I was going to see the press release announcing that Go Daddy’s 2010 Super Bowl commercial got banned. A few notes here, guys… one Danica is hot, for a race car driver, but otherwise, she’s just OK, so maybe rethink that one a little. She actually seems to be getting [...]