1993 Crystal Pepsi Launch Commercial

If tasting the future meant tasting 1994, then I guess a few people did.

I could use a pair of these

What I really like about this ad, apart from the high kick is that you can clip out the order form right in the ad. How convenient.

Sometimes I forget that poeple used to smoke EVERYWHERE

The Ad is Shameless

The actor is shilling.



The secret agent is drinking the wrong liquor.

Small businessman of the day

via @trumpetcake (Twitter):

I still don't like LeBron, but I do like this ad

Take a look at Nike's new spot for LeBron James as it tries to breathe new life into the one-man brand who had a memorable off season. Personally, I like the spot - love that he rips on Barkley - but still can't stand James after his antics this summer. The ad debuts with the season opener of Cavs...wait, I mean Heat vs. Celtics.

Advertising: A Little On the Nose?

I have never seen an bulletin flier for circumcision.

HT: AdWeek

Bud Light Lime - "In the Can"

Call me late to the game, but this ad for Bud Light Lime came up in a meeting today. Apparently, this never saw prime time TV, but just in case you have not seen this...enjoy!

The best vintage ads EVER

The products would have all made for hilarious infomercials if they came out today. Can you imagine how sweet it would be to watch one of those goofy infomercial actors showing us how hungover they are?

Two excellent samples below. This slideshow is a MUST SEE. Go to it here.

The Flintstones Love Their Winstons

Shameless! Also notice the horrendous animation, and the poor voice/mouth-movement sync up.

Excellent Steve Nash Ad

Pretty funny guy...he also created his own production company and produced this spot himself.

This Ad Might Even Get New Hampshirites to Wear Seatbelts

Extremely powerful ad for seatbelt use. Goosebumps.

Smith & Wollensky Kicks Off Steak-for-Stock Deal

Likely you know someone who works in finance and likely you've heard them bitching recently about any number of things including Obama, bonuses, blah blah blah.

Anyway, I know Smith & Wollensky (the famous steak house for you hippies, hill-folk, and yogis) has had its ear to the ground because it just kicked off a "Steak-for-stock" deal at its restaurants. This is no joke. Bankers can now take their bonus payouts, which this year were largely paid in stock, and trade them in for lunch or dinner at S&W.

The basic idea here is that S&W, not frequented by the common man, would lose a ton of business if these bankers don't have a lot of disposable cash lying around. So now they accept stock, fat-cats can maintain their girth and servers can keep their jobs. I'm all for the latter at least. S&W kicked this off with a full-page ad in the New York Times.

Side note: Alan Stillman whose company owns Smith & Wollensky started his restaurant empire in the 70s by opening his first TGIFriday's with a $5000 loan from his mom. What?!

38 Years of Super Bowl Commercials from AdLand

Here's a great sample from 1986 but you can catch them all (or any you might want to catch)...just click here.

Anheuser-Busch to change up Super Bowl Ads

From today's AdAge:

The most notable thing about Anheuser-Busch's Super Bowl advertising lineup this year is what it doesn't include: Clydesdales or "Drinkability". With a full five minutes of air time this year, A-B is once again the game's biggest advertiser. But the spots previewed this afternoon for the media featured some surprises. For one thing, A-B -- now the U.S. unit of Anheuser-Busch InBev -- appears to be moving on from the "Drinkability" platform it adopted for Bud Light in late 2008, opting instead for a new tagline, "Here we go," that is less focused on product attributes and more aligned with the brand's traditional good-times positioning, which held that people drink light beer to have fun, so light-beer commercials ought to be funny.

All of the Bud Light ads shoot for laughs. One spoofs the ABC series "Lost," as plane-crash survivors on an island pull both the plane's radio and its fridge from the fuselage, and are faced with a decision over which is more important. Another features an entire house made of Bud Light cans.

80s!

I wish American commercials were like this...

do bem - Suco de Laranja 100% fruta (MPC de torradas) from Hardcuore on Vimeo.

Ad agency and brand forced to pull ads after group complains they "condone rape". Does this mean it's 1995 again?

Seriously...check this ad out and tell me that it in any way 'condones rape.' I feel like we're in the overly PC '90s again and that's not a decade I'm eager to re-live.

PBR print ads over the years (1913-1958)

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1936



1945



1954



1958

Double wow...another real ad from the 60s back when Marlboro was marketed mostly to women