The original Slim Jim mascot more closely resembled Mr. Peanut than a professional wrestler. Wearing a top hat and…

Update, August 25, 2020: In case any KFC devotees (or marketing teams) held out hope that somewhere out there, the…

Anyone remember what you were up to this week last year? We remember what we were doing: tasting the Popeyes chicken…

In mid-June beer drinkers began noticing that some bottles from Stone Brewing Company had a slight problem. Namely,…

Earlier today, we wrote about Kellogg Korea’s rollout of Green Onion Chex, a cereal concept that was first suggested…

Sometimes pop culture gives us something so magical, so magnificent, so ethereally beautiful that even I, a…

Soft, ethereal spa music. A featureless white void. A single cup of cheese. A glacial parade of bare chips being…

Thanks to his ownership stake in Aviation Gin, Ryan Reynolds doesn’t need to wait until he has a movie to plug to…

McDonald’s is infamous for quite a number of things, like its constantly broken ice cream machines, and the fact…

Update, February 12, 2020: Hickory Farms has bouquet’ed 21 ounces of salami, and it can be yours for $49. If three…

There are places where I’d like to see photos of chicken sandwiches, and there are places I would not like to see…

The best kind of sex is obligatory sex—no matter how frisky you’re feeling, you’re required to “get it on” because…

Hot on the heels of the Super Bowl, where the ads are often infuriatingly over-the-top, comes another much-hyped…

Update, February 3, 2020: He’s a Baby Nut now. You know, like a Baby Yoda. Okay. Sure. That’s fine.

Super Bowl commercials are almost (though not quite) as innovative as the Puppy Bowl, and they’re in an advertising…

The 2009 Folgers commercial called “Coming Home” aired for just three holiday seasons, but it has lingered in our…

I feel like the last year-and-a-half of my Instagram feed has been defined by the Fab Five’s unrelenting sponcon…

By now, you’re probably familiar with last week’s Peloton ad, which, instead of making the $2,245 exercise bike seem…

Sex sells—until it doesn’t. Carl’s Jr., the burger chain that once claimed its advertising of scantily clad women…

Pushing back against potentially harmful stereotypes in advertising can almost feel contrary to the nature of…