Advertising

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An Advertising Campaign is a series of ads, all for the same product or business, which have a unifying theme, cast of characters, or plot. Some ad campaigns come and go and no one really remembers them once they're gone. Then there are the ones that are used for a long time, are extremely effective, or are particularly memorable. Usually, this means that they are working really well. However, they can lead to a case of What Were They Selling Again? if the advert in question performs poorly. See this page for examples of how not to advertise something.

This is a page for those memorable, notable ad campaigns. (Of course, since There Is No Such Thing as Notability, you can actually add any ad campaign with a wiki page to this index.) See also Advertising Tropes. For the up-to-date auto-index, see this page.

Interestingly, advertising agencies became the subject of the American Cyclic National Fascination of The '50s and '60s.

Ads:

Apparel

• Buster Brown (Brown Shoe Company)
• Find the One (Triumph bras)
• The LeBrons (Nike)
• The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (Gucci)
• Old Navy: The SuperModelquins
• Spike And Mike (Jordan)
• Take It to the Next Level (Nike)
• Terry Tate, Office Linebacker (Reebok)
• The Trial of Luka Dončić (Jordan)

Automobiles and Related

• Batman OnStar Commercials (OnStar, GM's subscription-based in-auto communications service)
• Chevron Cars
• "A Coach For Cinderella" (Chevrolet)
• DieHard Is Back (DieHard batteries)
• Doraemon Toyota Commercials
• The Epic Split (Volvo Trucks)
• GRIP: A Toyota Story
• Type S: Chiaki's Journey (Acura)

Breakfast Cereal

• Apple and CinnaMon (Apple Jacks)
• Cap'n Crunch
• Cookie Crisp
• Eet and Ern (Kellogg's)
• Freakies
• Lucky Charms
• Monster Cereals
• Pebbles Cereal
• Quisp and Quake
• Snap, Crackle and Pop (Rice Krispies)
• Sonny the Cuckoo Bird (Cocoa Puffs)
• Tony the Tiger (Frosted Flakes)
• Toucan Sam (Froot Loops)
• Trix Rabbit

Cleaning products and pesticides

• Louie the Fly (Mortein pesticide)
• Raid Insecticide Campaign

Computers and Smart Devices

• Best Phones Forever (Google Pixel)
• Doctor Who Prime Computer
• Download apps. Not traps. (Google Play)
• Get a Mac
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (Apple Macintosh)
• Victory by Computer (TRS-80)

Consumer Products

• Energizer Bunny
• Intimacies (various American Cyanamid brands)
• It's Happy Bunny
• Mr. Whipple (Charmin toilet paper)
• The Puttermans (Duracell batteries)

Drinks

• Aviation Gin
• Bones Coffee
• Bud Bowl
• Budweiser Frogs
• The Chase (Pepsi)
• Creatures of the Night (Jägermeister)
• Fansville (Dr Pepper)
• Gainomax
• Got Milk?
• Hada Futbolera (Coca-Cola)
• How to Speak Australian (Foster's Lager)
• James Bond (Heineken)
• John Jameson (Jameson Irish Whiskey)
• K-fee
• Kool-Aid Man
  • Wacky Zany Video
• Lil' Sweet (Dr Pepper)
• Marjan
• The Most Interesting Man in the World (Dos Equis)
• Obey Your Thirst (Sprite)
• One Man's Journey (Corona beer)
• Orangina
• Pepsiman (Pepsi)
• PG Tips Chimps
• PG Tips Monkey
• Red Bull
• Respect the Pouch (Capri Sun)
• Somos Bax (Tecate)
• Volvic
• Wazzup (Budweiser)
• Wilkins Coffee

Financial Services

• Peggy (Discover credit cards)

Foodstuffs

• Buondì Motta - L'Asteroide (Buondì Motta)
• Cadbury's Caramel Bunny (Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel)
• The California Raisins (Sun-Maid Raisins)
• Charlie the Tuna (StarKist)
• Chef Boyardee
• Dear Alice (Chobani)
• Eggo
• Foster Imposters (Foster Farms)
• The Great Crunchie Train Robbery (Crunchie)
• Hostess Fruit Pies (Hostess)
• How Many Licks Does It Take? (Tootsie Pop)
• Hungry Days (Nissin)
• Jay Bush and Duke (Bush's Baked Beans)
• Karl Ojisan
• Long Long Man (Sakeru Gummy)
• M&M's
• Messin' with Sasquatch (Jack Link's Beef Jerky)
• Mikado Stick
• Never Say No to Panda (Panda Cheese)
• Otter Pops
• Peperami Animal
• Pop-Tarts
• The Pillsbury Doughboy
• Qrazy Chocolates
• Skittles
• Sun-Maid
• Supergirl: The Fastest Women Alive (Snickers)
• UFO Kamen Yakisoban (Nissin UFO instant yakisoba)
• Utterly Deserved (Utterly Butterly)

Furniture

• Serta Counting Sheep
• Silentnight Beds

Infomercials

• Flex Seal
• HeadOn (Apply directly to the forehead!)
• Health Hotline
• The Magic Bullet
• Will It Blend?

Insurance

• Aflac
• Batman Vs. Bateman (State Farm)
• Compare the Meerkat (comparethemarket.com)
• Erin Esurance
• GEICO
• The General (Insurance)
• Jake from State Farm
• Liberty Mutual
• Mayhem (Allstate)
• MetLife
• Progressive

Internet

• Shaw Delivery Bots
• A Very Muppet Portal Campaign (Facebook Portal)

Parks and Resorts

• Cryptoland

Personal Care

• NATIVE
• Burma-Shave
• Dr. Rabbit (Colgate)
• The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (Old Spice)
• Schick Intuition

Pet Care

• Dear Kitten (Friskies cat food)
• Morris the Cat (9Lives cat food)

Politics

• La Argentina de siempre

Public Service Announcements

• Air New Zealand Safety Videos
• American Honda Presents DC Comics' Supergirl
• Biggie Bear
• Cartoons on Children's Rights
• Claude the Cat
• Companies Committed to Kids
• Computer Critters
• The Crash Dummies
• Croc
• Don't Copy That Floppy
  • Don't Copy That 2
• Don't Mess with Texas
• Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives
• Dumb Ways to Die
• Fire Kills
• Highways or Dieways?
• I Saw Your Willy
• Julie (1998)
• Lonely Water
• McGruff The Crime Dog
• Meth Project
• Metro Manners
• Mitch Glee
• Omeletto
• One To Grow On
• Operation Blue Line
• Partnership to End Addiction
• Pinky Pledge
• Piracy. It's a Crime.
• Public Health Scotland
• The Real Cost
• Sexual Violence with the Birds and the Bees
• Smokey Bear
• Superman vs. Nick O'Teen
• Suzy Puppy
• Thai Health Promotion Foundation
• Tales of the Road
• They're Us
• Tommy McAnairey
• Transport Accident Commission
• Vive Sin Drogas

Restaurants

• Arby's
• The Burger King
  • The Burger King Kids Club Gang
• Chick-fil-A Cows
• Chuck E. Cheese
• Dairy Queen Lips
• Dunkin' Donuts
• Goody's Burger House
• IHOP
• Jack in the Box
• Little Caesars
  • Little Caesars vs. Big Pizza
• McDonald's
  • McDonaldland
  • McDonald's – "Decorate"
• Mr. Delicious (Rax Roast Beef)
• The Noid (Domino's Pizza)
• Pizza Hut
  • The Pizza Head Show
• The Scarecrow (Chipotle)
• Subway
• Where's the Beef? (Wendy's)
• Wienerschnitzel: The Delicious One

Retailers

• hhgregg
• ICA-såpan (ICA)
• John Lewis
• Le Mal-Aimé (Intermarché)
• Nipper & Gramophone's Christmas Tales (HMV)

Software

• Microsoft Office XP
• Protegent

Sports

• C'mon, Aussie, C'mon
• Coach Lasso
• Olympic Mascots
• Seattle Mariners

Telephone Services

• Iritology (Indonesian service AXIS)
• La llama que llama (Argentine company Telecom)

Television and Cinema

• CN City (Cartoon Network)
  • Cartoon Network Noods (Cartoon Network)
• Front Row Joe (Cinemark)
• Get Rid of Cable (DirecTV)
• Inter-Stitch-als (Lilo & Stitch [2002] teaser trailers featuring crossovers with other Disney animated films)
• Nickmas (Nickelodeon)
• This Is SportsCenter (ESPN)
• We Make Movies Better (AMC Theaters)

Tourism

• Visit Las Vegas

Toys

• Digimon Project 2021 — a 4-episode series of shorts promoting the Vital Bracelet Digital Monster health fitness toy.
• Freddie Freaker
• itemLabel — a collection of eccentric YouTube and TikTok videos promoting a variety of plush-based collectables, most notably "Peepy".
• Spacix
• Ultraman Nice — a 20-episode commercial series and an Affectionate Parody of Ultraman, aired in reruns of Ultraman Tiga, made by Tsuburaya themselves!

Transport

• Stressmannetje (Flemish bus/tram service De Lijn)
• Uber

Video Games

• Absolutely Rose Street (Sega 32X)
• Grand Theft Auto 2 Short Film
• It's Thinking (Sega Dreamcast)
• KCL Productions' Nintendo Commercials
• Kevin Butler (PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable)
• Nintendo Power Promo Videos
  • A Sneak Peek at Pokémon
• Nintendo Week
• Segata Sanshiro (Sega Saturn)
• The Year of Luigi

Other/Multiple

• Big Bill Hell's
• DoorDash
• Ernest P. Worrell
• Empire Today
• Mr. Mucus
• Race the Truck (UPS)
• Stanley Steemer
• The Simpsons