Category: Great Advertising
December 4th, 2008

Bangers In The Mouth.

Why should bacon get to have all the fun? This sausage ad from Hungary makes us really hungr…must…resist…bad…pun…strength…failing…

Thanks for the snack, Boing-Boing!

October 25th, 2008

In Which We Don’t Know Whether To Laugh Or Cry.


So that’s where Dookie’s been.
A truly inspired effort from director Charles Stone III and crew.

P.S. Vote, people.

September 17th, 2008

Long Attention-Span Theater?

Here’s the Obama campaign with a two-minute ad on the economy. Two minutes? But we’re Americans! We have short attention spans – the TV says so!
What do you think? Can you watch a politician talk for 120 seconds?
Mortar is big into the idea of trusting the audience not to be idiots. And we appreciate it when someone else trusts us not to be idiots. We’re just more nervous than a moose on the first day of hunting season when we think of trusting everyone not to be idiots. Let us hear your thoughts.

August 8th, 2008

Skittles has finally left us completely, utterly speechless.

Candy commercials have been an awe-inspiring source of WTF-ness these past few years, and Skittles has easily lead the pack with memorable gimmicks like the sheep-boys and the creepy pinata man.

But today they finally topped the cake. And then slowly, sensually, devoured it.

Thank you, AdFreak. I will never think of Skittles the same way again.

July 28th, 2008

In Soviet Union, Ad Watches YOU!



This is, apparently, a Soviet-era tv spot for an Estonian meat company. Remember how the commies always used to refer to us as "capitalist pigdogs?" We suspect this dish is what they were talking about. (On the other hand, that chicken looks more nervous than a Trotskyite in a room full of Stalinists)

Спасибо to our comrades at Glorious Boing-Boing Workers’ Collective.