Filed under: Coupes, Sports/GTs, Marketing/Advertising, Hyundai, Celebrities How did you like Hyundai's Genesis Coupe ads during the Super Bowl? They rocked, right? With that hard-driving soundtrack from The Smashing Pumpkins, of course they rocked. The song is called "FOL," and it isn't available f...

Filed under: Sports, OpEd, Video, Commercials, Super Bowl, Reality-Free (Editor's Note: In anticipation of editing the Best/Worst Super Bowl ads, I paid close attention to the ads while I was watching and decided that some could go either way. Sure enough, Rich and Bob picked a couple of the same ad...

Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Chrysler, LLC., Ford, GM During this Sunday's Super Bowl, the Big Three automotive advertisers will be Hyundai, Audi and Toyota, not Ford, GM and Chrysler. In fact, the Detroit Three will be completely absent from the proceedings for the first time since 2001. At ...

Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Audi Lately, our monthly By the Numbers post has resembled a blood bath, with just about every automaker's sales lower than they were the same month in 2007. Audi is no different, but has experienced far less blood-letting than its competitors. In fact, Audi's lux...

Filed under: General Motors (GM), Marketing and advertising General Motors' (NYSE: GM) GMC had an ad on last night's Super Bowl for the first time in years. It cost something in the neighborhood of $5 million to broadcast, and if you're a GM stockholder, you might want to ask: why did GM waste so mu...

Filed under: Sports, Industry, TV on DVD, OpEd, TV Sports, Commercials, TV Squad Polls Super Bowl XLII is all done except for the cleanup and the hangovers. And, you are probably doing one of two things right now. Either you are joyously celebrating the win of the Wild Card New York Giants over the ...

Filed under: Sports, TV Sports Every year Budweiser puts together an uplifting commercial about some animal who strives to achieve his dreams and with hard work and perseverance, achieves it. This year's installation involved a Clydesdale who didn't make the cut to pull the Budweiser wagon. "Maybe n...