Those are three words that don't make sense to me
But I'm used to words that don't make sense to me
From all those commercials I see on TV
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
- Terry Tate, Office Linebacker (Reebok)
Automobiles and Related
- Batman OnStar Commercials (OnStar, GM's subscription-based in-auto communications service)
- DieHard Is Back (DieHard batteries)
- Doraemon Toyota Commercials
- Type S: Chiaki's Journey (Acura)
Breakfast Cereal
- Cap'n Crunch
- Cookie Crisp
- Freakies
- Monster Cereals
- Pebbles Cereal
- Quisp and Quake
- Snap, Crackle and Pop (Rice Krispies)
- Trix Rabbit
Computers
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (Macintosh)
- Get a Mac
- Victory by Computer (TRS-80)
Consumer Products
- Energizer Bunny
- Intimacies (various American Cyanamid brands)
- It's Happy Bunny
- Louie the Fly (Mortein pesticide)
- Mr. Whipple (Charmin toilet paper)
Drinks
- Aviation Gin
- Bones Coffee
- The Chase (Pepsi)
- Fansville (Dr Pepper)
- Gainomax
- Got Milk?
- James Bond (Heineken)
- John Jameson (Jameson Irish Whiskey)
- K-fee
- Lil' Sweet (Dr Pepper)
- The Most Interesting Man in the World (Dos Equis)
- Obey Your Thirst (Sprite)
- Orangina
- Pepsiman (Pepsi)
- Red Bull
- Respect the Pouch (Capri Sun)
- Somos Bax (Tecate)
- Volvic
- Wacky Zany Video (Kool-Aid)
- Wazzup (Budweiser)
- Wilkins Coffee
Financial Services
- Peggy (Discover credit cards)
Foodstuffs
- Cadbury's Caramel Bunny (Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel)
- Charlie the Tuna (StarKist)
- Foster Imposters (Foster Farms)
- Hostess Fruit Pies
- 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
- Pop-Tarts
- Skittles
- UFO Kamen Yakisoban (Nissin UFO instant yakisoba)
- Utterly Deserved (Utterly Butterly)
Furniture
Infomercials
- Flex Seal
- HeadOn (Apply directly to the forehead!)
- Health Hotline
- The Magic Bullet
- Will It Blend?
Insurance
- Jake from State Farm
- Compare the Meerkat (comparethemarket.com)
- Erin Esurance
- GEICO
- MetLife
- Progressive
Internet
Parks and Resorts
Personal Care
- 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
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
- Croc
- The Crash Dummies
- Don't Copy That Floppy
- Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives
- Dumb Ways to Die
- I Saw Your Willy
- Julie Knew Her Killer
- Meth Project
- Metro Manners
- Mitch Glee
- One To Grow On
- Operation Blue Line
- Partnership to End Addiction
- Pinky Pledge
- Sexual Violence with the Birds and the Bees
- Superman vs. Nick O'Teen
- Suzy Puppy
- Tommy McAnairey
- Transport Accident Commission
- Vive Sin Drogas
Restaurants
- The Burger King
- Chick-fil-A Cows
- Dairy Queen Lips
- Goody's Burger House
- Jack in the Box
- Little Caesars vs. Big Pizza
- McDonaldland
- McDonald's – "Decorate"
- Mr. Delicious (Rax Roast Beef)
- The Noid (Domino's Pizza)
- The Pizza Head Show (Pizza Hut)
- The Scarecrow (Chipotle)
- Where's the Beef? (Wendy's)
- Wienerschnitzel: The Delicious One
Retailers
Software
Sports
Telephone Services
- Iritology (Indonesian service AXIS)
- La llama que llama (Argentine company Telecom)
Television and Cinema
- CN City (Cartoon Network)
- Front Row Joe (Cinemark)
- Get Rid of Cable (DirecTV)
- Nickmas (Nickelodeon)
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)
Video Games
- Absolutely Rose Street (Sega 32X)
- It's Thinking (Sega Dreamcast)
- KCL Productions' Nintendo Commercials
- Kevin Butler (Sony)
- Nintendo Power Promo Videos
- Nintendo Week
- Segata Sanshiro (Sega Saturn)
- The Year of Luigi
Other/Multiple
