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Barack Obama's first presidential ad, from all the way back in December 2006:

The great John Lydon consolidates his (increasingly plausible) national treasure status by appearing in a funny little ad for Country Life b...

Further to the post below, a very funny - and brilliantly acted - account of what really goes on in the world of advertising:

We've all heard the old adage: that advertising would be a great business to be in if it wasn't for the clients. The little film bel...

At last, Hovis lives up to its brand strengths with a great, nostalgic ad that covers the past 122 years in 122 seconds. Epic stuff. What...

From Golden Gate Funeral Home in Dallas, a rather unique endorsement of their services:

Despite the fact that they're all over 50 and still earning minimum wage, there's never been a happier bunch of mop and broom pusher...

It's good to see that advertising not only works but can also work as a force for good. As was the case with this Scottish organ donor a...

Voiceover king Don La Fontaine has died at the relatively young age of 68. Best known for his deep-voiced "In a world where..." na...

A great little ad for a hospitality jobs site called caterer.com . It features a very young Gordon Ramsay telling his mum where to get off. ...

Trading on the old Blues myth of doing a deal with the devil at the Crossroads, the Godfather of Soul attempts to re-negotiate his contract....

R2D2 gets caught puffing behind the spacestation version of the bike sheds. And CP30 doesn't like it one bit. Remember kids: Most robots...

A beautiful piece of work for RAC by The Brand Agency in Australia. There's no 3D magic or post-production trickery - it's all good...

Thought-provoking stuff from Dave Trott who reminds us what creativity is - and what it isn't: I see lots of people calling themselves ...

If you're going to use a celebrity in an ad it makes sense to use one who has a distinct, and likeable, personality. As Creda did here w...

From JWT Cairo, a series of ads for first aid cream that are wrong on just about every level. Once you've got over the images of babies ...

Engaging, funny, moving, beautifully shot... a lovely ad from Irn Bru that makes excellent use of Kipling's If and captures some of the ...

There was a time - from around the late-seventies till the early-nineties - that the late, great Johnny Cash wasn't, in fact, so great. ...

It's vacation time. We're going to be away for a couple of weeks. And because at least one of us will be in New York (and visiting M...

Another bizarre piece of work. While this ad features a bowling bull, the other two in the campaign feature a knitting sheep and a trolley p...

A couple of cracking ads from Geico Car Insurance. Very funny and right on brief.

There have been some wonderful ads for Lego recently (scroll down to the bottom of this page for a couple of great examples). This, however,...

From TBWA Barcelona, a lovely response to the proposition "plasters that heal".

The utterly wonderful Bo Diddley died the other day. This is an ad he appeared in for a Dutch recruitment agency in 2005. It features him pl...

Created by O&M Malaysia for Carrefour stores, proof that price-driven retail ads can be things of beauty. It must have made the client v...

What's most horrible about this ad? That it's 'kooky'? That it's full of self-consciously hip hipster types? That it thi...

In the old days it wasn't obese kids they worried about. It was skinny, listless drips like the kid in this Cream of Wheat ad from 1933....

Funny and clever. Well, more funny than clever. Still, it's good to see a poster that's not just a piece of graphic design with a lo...

Despite featuring a succession of scantily-clad women, this lovely new ad for Axe Bullet manages to be very sweet and refreshingly un-laddis...

Further to an earlier Jukebox post ("Smoke and Fire"), a ridiculous campaign by Brazil's F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi agency ...

Once again, from the pages of Viz Comic, Dickie Beasley shows the world what life in an ad agency is really like - dead cats nailed to churc...

Back when stars were stars... the incomparable Sammy Davis Jr (accompanied by a cartoon shell) dances and drives around 1950s London while e...

Of course, if you want to fly anywhere these days you have to first ensure that everyone knows how full of self-loathing you are about doing...

From Thailand, a very - very - strange ad for lightbulbs.

The ultimate celebrity endorsement. Sort of. Although God himself doesn't make an appearance, one of his trusted earthly representatives...

From the pages of Viz comic, a stunningly accurate pastiche of what ad agencies are like. Or, rather, what many of them are like (hint: It...

Another great Monster TV ad. As usual, it's very clever, very creative and bang on brief. But this time it's also quite moving. In f...

Who was it that said: "Talent imitates, genius steals"? Advertising has always nodded to the various aspects of the culture it fin...

It seemed apt to post this particular video on the day of our local elections. From 1960, a sweet, and rather irritating, political advertis...

Cartoon characters smoking? Think of the children! Of course, in those days (1960) The Flinstones' target audience was adults. And as it...

From 1965, a whole series of fantastic commercials from the Egg Marketing Board. Fantastic because they feature the talents of the late, and...

Everybody seems to be talking about Jackie Chan's bizarre star turn in the latest Woolworths TV ad. It's funny, yes, but nowhere nea...

It's good sometimes to look back at older advertising, to see how well - and how differently - they did things then. Here's a lovely...

What a fantastic appeal - asking if you want to call your soul your own. Not your home, your country, your identity, your job or even your w...

The best ad currently on television? Yes. But whether that's to do with the quality of the ad itself, or because TV adverts are generall...

Very simple. Very effective.

It's all happening on BBC4 at the moment. Not only with the excellent Mad Men, but also with a series of cracking documentaries about va...

From Transport For London, a thought-provoking ad and awareness test. How many passes can you count?

Anti-smoking types are always a worry. Even after significant victories (such as banning smoking in public places and casting smokers as soc...

This wonderful Lego campaign does exactly what ads are supposed to do: tap right into the minds (and hearts) of the target audience. Or, in ...

I'm always a bit weary of nostalgia, particularly when it's used to offer 'proof' of how much better things were in the past...

Monster have quite a nice history of producing funny ads, particularly with their earlier radio spots. Their new TV ad, Monster Legs, gets j...

From Laurel and Hardy's short film Blotto (1930), an early example of product placement as Stan's wife (played by the fantastically ...

Ah, if only all advertising could be like this. And a coupon too!