The First Christmas Commercial Ever
Commercialism has been inextricably linked with Christmas going back generations — the first time Guðmundur put up a note in the town square reminding Gjögur he offers the freshest oranges …
The Most Egregious Product Placements Ever, Part 2: Hold On to Your Butts
Last week, we introduced you to bad product placement — like, egregiously bad product placement, like “pass me those delicious Pizzeria Pretzel Combos so I can cheese my hunger away” …
The Most Egregious Product Placements Ever, Part 1: Just the Cars
There’s a phrase you might hear from time to time in my house, essentially at random: My Yaris gets awesome gas mileage, but it’s not getting us to the North …
The 10 Most Upvoted Ads on r/CommercialsIHate
Like… what it says on the tin. I generally try to keep things positive around here. Even when I get critical of campaigns and stuff, I like to keep it …
The Three Best Football(-Adjacent) Ad Campaigns of All Time
If you missed UGA’s domination (har) of Georgia Tech for the seventh year in a row in the 118th annual Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate, you… are like many people, because viewership …
Pay your damn writers. (Or, Why You Need Screenwriters on Set During Shooting)
Currently, the Writer’s Guild of America is on strike for a number of reasons, all of them perfectly valid: better pay in general, better streaming residuals specifically, better pensions and …