"You can feel it, hold it, put it in your mouth, and see how great it tastes," suggests a handsome man in a new commercial. No, he is not talking about his dick, but a British brand of e-cigarettes called VIP. Read… 12/03/13 3:30pm Yesterday 3:30pm

I bet the pitch meeting on this commercial was hilarious. Like, someone was all, "Why don't we have a row of nut crackers crunch nuts to holiday tunes?" "'No! Why don't we imply that men have balls of steel that make beautiful music when they collide?" And then the boss — who was in his head and not listening to anyone — … Read… 11/19/13 10:40am 11/19/13 10:40am

Hey, consumers! Do you like driving a car, but just wish it was more like getting your rock-hard priapism drained by a surgeon? WELL THEN, HYUNDAI MIGHT BE THE CAR FOR YOU. Read… 11/06/13 9:40am 11/06/13 9:40am

In Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, reporter Michael Moss wrote about obnoxiously named Boulder ad agency Victor & Spoils creating a mock ad campaign for broccoli. Read… 11/05/13 11:40am 11/05/13 11:40am

GoDaddy, that website hosting company that has a stronger brand association with "trying-too-hard 'sExY' Super Bowl ads" than with, uh, actual website hosting, has announced plans to tone it down. Let's all pour one out for the boobies commercials we'll never know. Read… 11/01/13 6:40pm 11/01/13 6:40pm

Copyranter has just posted an ad for Cougar Life that was banned by the Australian Advertising Standards Board (ASB) for depicting violence that “is not justified in the context of the service being advertised.” Read… 10/23/13 5:50pm 10/23/13 5:50pm

A new study published in the journal Pediatrics has found that junk food endorsements by celebrity athletes maybe having very very not-cool effects on kids. The study totted up the number of food and beverage products that were represented by athletes in 2010, and found that 79% were "energy-dense" junk food. And "around … Read… 10/08/13 1:02pm 10/08/13 1:02pm

A new study commissioned by media planning agency PHD has revealed the dates, times and occasions at which U.S. women feel "most vulnerable about their appearance." This is very useful information, says PHD, because it will allow marketers to pinpoint the exact right moments to target female consumers: "Happy Monday,… Read… 10/02/13 5:30pm 10/02/13 5:30pm

These are a home's gender dynamics, according to Brinks Home Security: ladies haul the groceries through the door while the menfolk return from a successful corporate mastodon hunting retreat. Hooray for progress! Discuss… 9/28/13 6:15pm 9/28/13 6:15pm

A marketing and advertising company in Waco, Tex. really wanted to drum up some new business, you know, make a splash. Most likely, there was a strategy meeting at which Hornet Signs’ owner, Brad Kolb, petitioned his crack creative team for some ideas. Maybe someone said tentatively, “We should all wear funny hats,… Read… 9/08/13 12:30pm 9/08/13 12:30pm

KIA Canada has some new ads out that double as helpful Public Service Announcements about how if you get in their cars to drive and you decide to use that time to multitask and put on makeup, the car will kill you. Death sells! Read… 9/06/13 12:20pm 9/06/13 12:20pm

This is an ad (presumably) for Philips Norelco BodyGroom shavers, and it's cheesy and nonsensical as hell. Do you want your man to be "all swift and no drift"? I'm not sure if I do... first someone tell me what that means and I'll let you know. Read… 9/03/13 8:30pm 9/03/13 8:30pm

According to Copyranter, Flora is a Unilever brand of margarine sold in UK, Czech Republic, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia, and this ad about how coming out as gay to one's father would literally pierce said father's heart like a … Discuss… 9/01/13 3:45pm 9/01/13 3:45pm

This just in: being a child and taking steps to propel you from one area to another is a gendered act. Boys walk; girls sparkle and twirl and make princess wishes. Boys also crouch and pretend to shoot webs out of their hands, because that sort of thing is fun when you are a boy. (The only time that girls crouch is … Read… 8/22/13 5:40pm 8/22/13 5:40pm

A new ad for Coca Cola advises drinking the brown flavored bubbly corn syrup water isn't unhealthy at all — instead, it's a part of a wholesome, healthy lifestyle like the kind your grandfather enjoyed before he died of lung cancer from all the smoking people did in the 1950's and 60's. Read… 8/16/13 2:40pm 8/16/13 2:40pm

Three guesses as to which brand's "Youngest Pinup Encourages Teens to 'Go All the Way'"? Read… 8/06/13 2:50pm 8/06/13 2:50pm

When's the last time a voyeuristic shot of a woman lying crumpled in her underwear on the floor in a defeated position, as if she'd just been thrown there, facing away from the camera, made you go "Ooh, I should order that demi cup!" Never? Yeah, me neither. Read… 8/03/13 4:30pm 8/03/13 4:30pm