Uh yeah, I think we pretty much covered all of those things. Angela from a little blog called AdRants, John Wall from Marketing Over Coffee and me are on this week’s podcast. Download the show directly here. Topics here. (Subscribe through iTunes here.) You can also follow us on Twitter: TheBeanCa...

Double damn again. Sarah McLachlan’s back with yet another spot that gets me every single time I see it. How can you resist slow panning sad puppies? YOU CAN’T! Which got me thinking: This is what PETA has to do. I had a long-ass rant ready to go, but someone wiser read it and while agreeing wit...

With ALL the shit on YouTube, literally and figuratively, someone finally put up a clip of the Cheerios spot from hell. The one where under the guise of product benefits and witty relationship banter, brother husband makes comment in passing which sister wife takes the wrong way, forcing said husban...

This MLB 2K9 spot featuring Tim Linecum could be easily be a spot for SportsCenter, as could the rest of these. Then there’s this one below which schools Comcast on how to incorporate a virtual world with a real one: Then there were the stunning HALO spots from last year, the classic Ratchet and C...

A few recent finds while looking for more other stuff, each with a unique voice and simple concept. First up, Marcus Brown rips the social media A-list on Twitter a new one. No fancy sets or special effects, just a toilet, a nice red, and deadpan delivery. Check him out before he gets so famous he s...

But you guys dropped the ball on the website. There, that’s better....

I haven’t gone off on sports in a long time, so let’s! The new Potawatomi Bingo Casino sponsorship of The Milwaukee Brewers last month, including signage and advertising deals, went virtually undetected. That article along with a lone AP release buried on Google was it. MLB.com, ESPN.com and The...

Sometimes for real but often in Steffan Postaer’s latest novel, The Happy Soul Industry. Speaking of miracles, this is the second book I’ve finished in as many weeks, let alone one day. I’m also not a novel dude in general, especially when it comes to the ad industry. Happy Soul looks at what ...

I love the idea of integrating a Sims-like look to a town interface and zooming in on real people, but the one thing that kills it for me in the Comcast site and commercials: Why do the people look and sound like zombies? Lose the dark make-up, shoot them in brighter light and tell them to cheer the...

Whoever said display ads on Facebook don’t work were dead wrong. Dead wrong. I am proof. Saw two characters and the words “gamer preparedness test� and couldn’t resist. That, and seeing a corporate brand like Toshiba got me wondering what they thought would be cool. Turns out to be a Toshiba...