Advertisements painted by hand directly onto the brickwork of buildings were once a common sight in cities, towns and villages across the country. The rise of printed billboards soon led to their decline but many still s...

(Video Link) Actually, these Russian ads are designed to sell some sort of snack food. But they pit Mario and Pac-Man against each other using very simplified animation and mouth-produced sound effects. Hilarious....

Super Frien (YouTube Link) Super Delicious Ingredient Force is a Taco Bell commercial that is modeled after the 70s cartoon Super Friends. Captain Enchilada Sauce, Flex Tortilla, Commander Seasoned Beef, and the oth...

(YouTube Link) Also Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Ciara, Jay Baruchel, DJ Neil Armstrong. But the best part is Snoop Dogg getting into a barfight. via Nerdcore...

Vincent Dixon has a PhD in Molecular Biology, but his career has spun off in a much different direction: photography. His work is popular with a variety of advertisers because of its beautiful simplicity that rarely...

Aaron Jamison, a colon-cancer patient, expects to die in only a few months. Because of the costs associated with his care and expected cremation, he was quite worried that his wife would go into debt. So he did something...

Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests your...  ...t mental_floss tests your knowledge and memory of advertising slogans, recent, old, and even older. The questio...  ...not easy, especially if you have grown immune to advertising

When most people feel cheated by their lover, they complain to friends or maybe trash some of the other person's property left at their house. But YaVaughnie Wilkins is not most people. After seeing that Oracle Presid...

This past week we purchased the bottle on th...  ...tics.  The question is whether this is deceptive advertising .  Does this labelling cynically take advantage o...

Find hundreds of ads going up to a couple hundred years back with the Vintage Ad Browser. I spent a lot of time looking around, but kept coming back to this perfume ad from 1890. The picture has nothing to do with th...