Archive for January, 1970

Miracle Whip ads: Love them or hate them?

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

People alternately praise and trash the brand, somewhat disingenuously, in this latest round of spots.

50 great ads (or not) starring Oscar winners

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

To celebrate this Sunday’s Academy Awards, we’ve collected 50 commercials starring Oscar winners.

Horror-film festival earns bloody thumbs-up

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

Everyone leeches off Facebook’s popularity and brand equity. Here, at least, it’s darkly amusing.

Coke now delivering happiness from a truck

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

This stunt in Rio De Janeiro follows a similar thing last winter with a vending machine in a college cafeteria.

Old Spice guy pairs up with Komodo dragon

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

Isaiah Mustafa returns, with a Komodo ice-cream cooler, to plug Old Spice’s Komodo body wash.

Weezer records full-length State Farm jingle

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

The band got the original Barry Manilow song out of mothballs so they could record a cover of it.

Hooters ad offers discounts to married men

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

The Hooters on West 56th Street is breaking with company tradition and celebrating marriage.

New movie set in 1980s honors its forebears

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

Picking out all the Ghost and Rain Man cues isn’t a bad way to fritter away a few minutes.

James Franco readies awkward Oscar jokes

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

Franco and Judd Apatow chat about an intimate sexual theme running through the year’s nominated flicks.

This week’s 5 most-read stories on AdFreak

Thursday, January 1st, 1970

Cruddy New Zealand police ads, Pepsi’s skinny-can debacle and other top AdFreak stories of the week.