Category Archives: advertising

Nike’s 2010 World Cup commercial

By Dave | Published: May 23, 2010

The World Cup is almost upon us and Nike released a brilliant soccer commercial that debuted during yesterday’s UEFA Champions League Final. It’s called “Write the Future”, and features various players from around the world, writing their own destiny depending on what happens in the World Cup. It’s an epic and often hilarious commercial. My [...]

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Rube Goldberg Machine of Beer

By Dave | Published: December 27, 2009

Hah, this commercial is pretty awesome. It’s like the Rube Goldberg machine of beer.

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Nike soccer commercial

By Dave | Published: December 23, 2009

Just saw this brilliant advertisement again. I first noticed it last year, during the Euro Cup. It’s a commercial by Nike, following the career of an unknown teenage soccer player through their eyes. In two minutes, the commercial goes from playing in a youth league, to playing for Arsenal, to playing for Holland in the [...]

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Chuck Norris has nothing on the Most Interesting Man in the World

By Dave | Published: July 23, 2009

Hah, I *really* enjoy these Dos Equis commercials. I think it's a pretty hilarious ad campaign. Posted via email from Dave Schumaker’s Posterous

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Humorous sports advertising

By Dave | Published: May 31, 2009

Recently, the National Basketball Association and Nike teamed up to produce a series of commercials for the NBA playoffs, featuring puppet versions of arguably the best two players in the game: The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant and the Cavaliers’ LeBron James. Two of them in particular are quite amusing to me. The first commercial features Kobe [...]

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