Could it be? Is it really? Yes, it's a . . . toaster!What is going to make you happy in life? Time-saving home appliances. Flashbak rounded up advertisements from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s showing women overcome with joy u...

The moral of this story is that if you give a dog some meatballs, he’ll do anything for you. I don’t know what that has to do with banking, but it’s a cute story from a Thai bank ad.[https://youtu.be/vH...

[https://youtu.be/2msbfN81Gm0] (YouTube link)The TV series Mad Men aired its final episode last night, and the 1971 Coca-Cola ad called "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" featured prominently. While fans of the show are...

For expectant parents, a sonogram visit is a time of joy and anxiety. It's the earliest opportunity to see a child waiting to arrive.Tatiana Guerra, 30, will soon give birth to her son, Murilo. She's blind, so she can't...

Mother wants fresh meat. Nay, she craves fresh meat. Will you feed her?Mother is an ad agency in New York. "Fresh meat" is its in-house term for "interns." To encourage meat units to apply to its internship program, Moth...

Leo Burnett designed this promotional item for the Yoga+ Yoga Center in Shanghai. Can you bend that far? I mean the straw.-via Toxel...

(SMBC Comics/Zach Weinersmith)You can choose from 3 different advertisements that our data mining programs reveal will be effective on you. The ad will automatically pause when you stop paying attention.Reader pro tip: Y...

Rock ’n’ roll billboards flourished on the Sunset Strip from the late 1960s to the early ‘80s. Music videos weren’t yet a thing, and a hand-painted billboard, paid for by the record company, was a...

The following is an article from Uncle John's 24-K...  ...ever released.) The song was used in Tootsie Roll advertising for more than twenty years, but the singers were...

A hundred years ago, few people thought about thei...  ...ts, they had to create a need. That’s where advertising came in. First, you have to convince people that...